The Turkish humanitarian relief foundation IHH said it is making big preparations for sending an aid convoy composed of 20 ships from Istanbul port to the besieged Gaza Strip next

The United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that hundreds and possibly thousands of poor Egyptians are selling their organs, mainly kidneys and liver, each year to

Jason Koutsoukis, an Australian correspondent for the Age newspaper, said that Israel escalated its restrictions on foreign activists of pro-Palestinian groups because of their role in exposing its violations against

Why it is that every time civil society and NGO activists launch a new initiative or organization, they must first get permission to do so from the men with guns

Syria’s poor human rights situation deteriorated further in 2009, as the authorities arrested political and human rights activists, censored websites, detained bloggers, and imposed travel bans. No political parties are

At least 19 Egyptian bloggers and one unnamed French activist have been arrested during an attempt to show solidarity with victims of the Naga'a Hammadi shootings on Coptic Christmas Eve,

Palestinian medical sources have reported that 35 Palestinian citizens were wounded by Egyptian gunfire Wednesday evening when dozens of them rallied near Salahuddin terminal in Rafah area in protest at

If an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor had gone on hunger strike in support of a besieged people in another part of the world, and hundreds of mostly western protesters had been

The following is a dispatch from Ellen Rosser, Ph.D. from Al-Arish. Rosser a professor of English and veteran peace activist is taking part in the Gaza Freedom March.

The Sheikh Yassin coalition on Sunday evening organized a sit-in at the Egyptian embassy in Paris to protest Egypt's construction of a steel wall along its borders with Gaza Strip