During last night the UN Security Council unanimously voted to impose comprehensive sanctions on the Libyan leadership around Muammar Gaddafi. These include an asset freeze and travel bans. In additio...
W: Violence against civilians and represssion of peaceful demonstrators just has to stop. Apparently the regime in Tripoli did not heed the call of the Security Council that we made on Tuesday. So we ...
On her first visit to Berlin since taking up her new post, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos today (23 February) had a meeting with Markus Löning, the Federal Government Commissioner for Hu...
W: The violence by the Libyan security forces against peaceful demonstrators is really shocking. It has regional and international implications, so that is why we think it's a case for the Security Co...
Tunisia, Egypt and an entire region now stand at a crossroads. A revolution issuing from the very heart of society, boosted by jasmine and Facebook, has chased away the autocratic rulers. The events are unprecedented in recent Arab history, and evoke memories of Europe in 1989