middle east

Governments across the Middle East and North Africa crushed protests with ruthless force during 2019, said Amnesty International as it published its annual human rights report on the region.

The Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has highlighted the need to scale up policies and investments in the Middle East and North Africa to make water use in agriculture more sustainable and efficient and to ensure that all people in the region have access to healthy diets.

Catholic organisations say US withdrawal from the Iran deal "is a tragedy of monumental proportions".

The World Council of Churches General Secretary, the Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, has condemned an attack at a mosque in Egypt during which hundreds of people are believed dead.