Tibetan NGO, Tibet 3rd Pole (T3P), attacked Chinese damming projects on Thursday at the United Nations' 17th climate change conference, COP17, in Durban, South Africa, on the basis that these projects are exacerbating climate change effects and (...)
CAIRO: A coalition of 170 Egyptian, Arab, and international human rights activists called on the Syrian government to immediately release blogger and activist Razan Ghazzawi, along with all other prisoners of conscience detained in Syria.
“The (...)
CAIRO: Syrian security forces and their paid thugs, or shabiha, are attempting to stir up sectarian differences between Muslims and Christians in an effort to create a sectarian conflict between the two factions that would shift public attention (...)
CAIRO: The leader of Sweden's “Pirate Party”, Anna Troberg, and a group of Swedish-based activists and bloggers, have called on the Egyptian government to release activists and bloggers, Maikel Nabil and Alaa Abdel Fattah, for their imprisonment for (...)
CAIRO: Domestic and foreign media have come under fire throughout the Arab Spring, as many Arab governments have attempted to repress freedom of speech and media coverage in an effort to subdue the masses and cling to power.
As the governments in (...)
CAIRO: Syrian security forces are responsible for the murder of one Syrian teenager and the abduction of another while coercing student participation in pro-government rallies that have taken place throughout Syria over the past few weeks, human (...)
CAIRO: The Arab League approved of imposing strong economic sanctions against Syria on Sunday, due to its continued violence against anti-government demonstrators and its failure to accommodate Arab League monitors.
The sanctions, which are the (...)
Queues at gas stations stretching for hundreds of meters are now commonplace in Syria as people line up to get their share of petrol, which is becoming increasingly scarce throughout the violence stricken nation.
Economic sanctions imposed, (...)
CAIRO: Some 300 Egyptian protesters began an open-ended sit-in directly in front of the Egyptian Cabinet building on Friday afternoon, determined to bar newly appointed Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri from entering and beginning work.
Activists (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's tourism industry, after suffering a devastating blow during the January 25 uprisings against former president Hosni Mubarak, is once again facing crisis, as violence between demonstrators and Egyptian security forces continues to roar (...)
CAIRO: Saboteurs from an Al-Qaeda affiliated group have bombed a gas pipeline just outside of the Egyptian town of Arish on Friday, according to reports from Egypt's Al-Ahram newspaper.
The bombing is reported to have done little damage to the (...)
CAIRO: A tour of duty on Mohammad Mahmoud Street, the frontlines of the violence between demonstrators and Egyptian police and military forces, can result in one being injured, fatigued, and certainly hungry.
Injuries can be treated at one of the (...)
“As you have seen he (the Egyptian people) awoke for 18 days in January and then his coma came back again.”
The Military Council, the parties, and the remainder all taking their piece of the January 25th Revolution Pie.
"You will not (...)
CAIRO: Amnesty International has accused Egypt's interim government, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), of reneging on its promises to improve human rights in Egypt. The statement condemned the army for exacerbating the number of human (...)
CAIRO: Nearly everyone aboard the metro cars today exited at Tahrir Square's Sadat station and spilled out of its multiple exits. Identification was checked, bags searched, and bodies patted down, as waves of Egyptians poured into Tahrir Square to (...)
CAIRO: 21 million agricultural-water users are expected to benefit from a joint-project to decentralize water authority and integrate water management in 3.4 million feddans of Egyptian agricultural land.
The Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources (...)
CAIRO: The Azerbaijani government has implemented a systematic wave of repression on its people in an effort to crush the growing unrest in the Central Asian country as its citizens begin to protest against civic corruption and crackdowns on freedom (...)
CAIRO: The Arabic Network of Human Rights Information (ANHRI) condemned the government of Bahrain for its charging of journalist and activist, Reem Khalifa, with slander, libel, and physical abuse.
“Bahrain must drop all charges against the (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Central Bank circulated a memo on Sunday to several national and investment banks in Egypt requesting specific accounting information for 28 NGOs based in Egypt.
The memo is reported to have been sealed and labeled “highly (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) decided to suspend any further construction of factories and plants in the Damietta governorate in response to the violence that had erupted between protesters and military forces at the (...)
CAIRO: Leading media professionals, journalists, and jurists gathered at a workshop on Sunday to discuss ways to improve the mass-media industry in post-revolutionary Egypt.
The group discussed various media issues including methods for improving (...)
CAIRO: A coalition of Egyptian human rights organizations condemned the interim Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) for its detention and military prosecution of leading Egyptian activist and blogger, Alaa Abdel Fattah, and the summoning of (...)
CAIRO: Supporters of the “No Military Trials for Civilians” campaign gathered on Qasr al-Nil Bridge Sunday night in Cairo to express their support for the thousands of civilians who have been detained and subjected to military trials by the interim (...)
CAIRO: As ski season approaches in Tehran, Iranian women will now have to be accompanied by a male as they carve down the slopes of Iran's numerous ski resorts, according to the Washington Post.
A recent police circular stated that male family (...)
CAIRO: The British government is awaiting final court ruling regarding the return of nearly £40 million worth of frozen Egyptian assets in Britian, according to British Minister of State for Middle Eastern Affairs, Alistair Burt, in an interview (...)