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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Speaking at an IPI Global Leaders Series event on April 11th, Khaled H. Alyemany, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yemen, appealed for the implementation of the agreement reached in Stockholm in December that seeks to bring an end to a four- year civil war between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels. The conflict has […]
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