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region: Middle East

  • Panel Discussions 09-18-2022

    IPI Hosts Foreign Ministers, Officials at 17th Annual Middle East Dinner

    On Sunday, September 18, 2022, IPI held its seventeenth annual Ministerial Working Dinner on the Middle East in its Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security, and Development. The dinner drew the participation of foreign ministers and other high-level representatives.The event was chaired by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, President of IPI, and co-hosted by the United […]

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  • 12-01-2021

    Arab Institute for Human Rights and IPI MENA to Cooperate on Promoting Human Rights in the Region

    On December 1st, IPI MENA Director Nejib Friji was hosted by the Arab Institute for Human Rights (AIHR) and Al Saïda Radio in Tunis, Tunisia, to discuss the areas for cooperation between the two organizations in further promoting human rights in the region.During the meeting, Mr. Abdelbasset ben Hassan, Head of AIHR, and Mr. Friji […]

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  • 11-05-2021

    IPI MENA Director Spotlights the Role of Youth for Regional Integration

    IPI MENA Director Nejib Friji addressed the Nouakchott Youth Forum in Mauritania on November 5th, highlighting the central role that youth play in achieving regional integration of the MENA region.Organized by the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), in partnership with the Mauritanian Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, the First Nouakchott Youth […]

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  • Panel Discussions 09-19-2021

    IPI Hosts Foreign Ministers, Officials at 16th Annual Middle East Dinner

    On Sunday, September 19, 2021, IPI held its sixteenth annual Ministerial Working Dinner on the Middle East in its Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security, and Development. The dinner drew the participation of foreign ministers and other high-level representatives.The event was chaired by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, President of IPI, and co-hosted by the United […]

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  • 11-26-2020

    IPI MENA Director Joins Bahrain in Support for Women in Diplomacy

    Addressing representatives of government, private sector, and the diplomatic community on November 26th, IPI MENA Director Nejib Friji highlighted Bahraini women’s role in diplomacy and their importance in fighting the pandemic.During a webinar on the occasion of Bahraini Women’s Day, organized by the Supreme Council for Women (SCW) in cooperation with the Al Bilad, SCW […]

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  • Policy Papers 12-19-2019by Alice Debarre

    Making Sanctions Smarter: Safeguarding Humanitarian Action

    In recent decades, sanctions have increasingly been used as a foreign policy tool. The UN Security Council has imposed a total of fourteen sanctions regimes alongside those imposed autonomously by the EU, the US, and other countries. Despite efforts to institute more targeted sanctions regimes, these regimes continue to impede or prevent the provision of […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs, Sanctions, UN Security Council
  • 11-13-2019

    WEIF Concluded by Calling for Key Role of Entrepreneurs in Development and Peace

    Concluding Panel with IPI MENA Director Nejib Friji (left), and H.H. Sheikh Faisal bin Rashid bin Isa AL Khalifa, Vice President of the Supreme Council for Environment (center)The third annual World Entrepreneurs Investment Forum (WEIF) was held concurrently with the 18th Arab Businessmen and Investors Conference (ABIC) from November 11-13th in Manama, Bahrain. Participants in […]

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  • Panel Discussions 09-22-2019

    IPI Hosts Foreign Ministers, Officials at 14th Annual Middle East Dinner

    On Sunday, September 22, 2019, IPI held its fourteenth Ministerial Dinner on the Middle East in its Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security, and Development. The working dinner drew the participation of foreign ministers, United Nations officials, special representatives of the Secretary-General to countries in the region, heads of humanitarian agencies, and other high-level representatives […]

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  • Speaker Events 06-21-2019

    On Eve of Pledging Conference, UNRWA Head Says Neutrality Essential for Doing Humanitarian Work

    The subject of the June 21st Speaker Series event at IPI was “The Risks of Politicizing Humanitarian Action: The UNRWA Perspective,” and the speaker, Pierre Krähenbühl, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), focused his comments on what he said was the most misunderstood of […]

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    Humanitarian Affairs
  • Comment & Analysis 06-18-2019

    Rød-Larsen: Palestinian Identity is Glued to the Notion of Establishing a Palestinian State

    In an interview with FRANCE 24 in The Hague, IPI President Terje Rød-Larsen discussed the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and also shared his thoughts on the merits of the Trump administration’s plans for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

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