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Amnesty International Wednesday cited nine multinational including Colgate, Nestlé and Unilever as global brands profiting from grave human and child right abuses in Indonesia. The London-based group through its report titled “The great palm oil scandal: Labour abuses behind big Read more
Dar Si Hmad, a women-led NGO in Morocco, which has installed the world’s largest operational fogwater harvesting system, has been granted the 2016 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Momentum for Change Award. The project has been rewarded Read more
Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders has “strongly condemned” on Tuesday the adoption by Israel of 463 housing construction plans as well as the retroactive approval of 179 other homes in various West Bank settlements. “These decisions seriously undermine any possibility Read more
The Knesset voted a controversial law on Monday, dubbed the Transparency Bill, which obliges NGOs that receive funding from abroad to declare and publish their sources of income in all dealings with officials as well as on all types of Read more
U.S. first Lady Michelle Obama is visiting Morocco to promote education for girls in the North African Kingdom, one of Washington’s major allies in the region. Michelle Obama, who is accompanied by her two daughters, Sasha and Malia, was greeted Read more
The prestigious Swiss NGO, Crans Montana Forum is holding its annual conference in the southern Moroccan City of Dakhla (17-22 March) for the 2nd year in a row, confirming Morocco’s determination to become a regional hub for South-South cooperation. In Read more
Israeli bulldozers arrived in the villages of Jinba and Halawa south of Hebron in the West Bank on Tuesday and razed down more than 20 buildings in the area they claim was designated as a military firing range in the Read more
The guilty verdicts and sentences handed down by an Egyptian court against several workers for non-government organizations have prompted anger and outrage both in Washington and Brussels, and may result in diplomatic crisis. The U.S. administration and European governments have Read more
19 young Americans are among the 43 pro-democracy activists who have been arrested lately by the Egyptian authorities and will be tried for setting up groups without licenses and receiving illegal foreign funding. These Americans are working for National Democratic Read more