NGOs

A Palestinian boy walks past the clinic of Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on 11 January 2026
Israel
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Aid groups urge top Israeli court to halt 'catastrophic' NGO ban

More than a dozen international NGOs have petitioned the Supreme Court to block an imminent order that will ban 37 organisations from the occupied territories.

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
24 February, 2026
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Gaza
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What Israel's ban on aid groups means for Gaza's future

Alessandra Bajec
15 January, 2026
An aerial view shows displaced Palestinians living in makeshift shelters among the ruins of destroyed buildings along the coastline of Gaza City in the Gaza Strip on January 6, 2026
Israel
MENA
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EU urges Israel to end crackdown on NGOs operating in Gaza

The New Arab Staff
07 January, 2026
Demonstrators hold placards featuring the portrait of the detained civil society activist and former Executive Director of NGO 'Terre d'Asile Tunisie', Sherifa Riahi, as well as those of other defendants
Tunisia
MENA
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Tunisia court frees NGO workers accused of helping migrants

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 January, 2026
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Gaza War
MENA
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Int'l aid groups grapple with impact of Israel's ban in Gaza

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
04 January, 2026
Gaza war
Gaza War
MENA
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Gaza is becoming 'unfit for human life', say top NGOS

Rosabel Crean
05 April, 2024
Egypt
MENA
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Egypt activist Hossam Bahgat's 13-year legal ordeal ends

Nabila El-Gaafary
21 March, 2024
Gaza War
World
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Human rights NGOs demand UK to suspend trade with Israel

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
14 March, 2024
Tunisia
MENA
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Tunisian civil society fears plan to limit foreign funding

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
04 March, 2024
Estella Carpi on Lebanon's crucial politics of crisis-making
Lebanon
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Estella Carpi on Lebanon's crucial politics of crisis-making

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Usman Butt

06 December, 2023
Tortured negligence on the world's deadliest migration route
European refugee crisis
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Torture and refuge on the world's deadliest migration route

Marc Martorell Junyent

Marc Martorell Junyent

29 November, 2023
Afghanistan
MENA
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The Taliban have detained 18 staff from an Afghanistan NGO

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 September, 2023
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Palestinian Authority
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The PA's intensifying crackdown on Palestinian civil society

Jessica Buxbaum
20 April, 2023
Afghanistan
World
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Three foreign NGOs partially resume aid in Afghanistan

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
17 January, 2023
Afghanistan
World
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Obey or leave: NGOs torn over Taliban ban on women staff

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
05 January, 2023
United Nations
World
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UNSC urges Taliban to reverse restrictions on women

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
28 December, 2022
Men in Afghanistan pushing aid in wheelbarrows
Afghanistan
World
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More NGOs halt Afghan work after Taliban ban on women staff

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
26 December, 2022
Ramiz Alakbarov, a United Nations official
Afghanistan
World
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UN official, Taliban minister meet on Afghan women NGO ban

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
26 December, 2022
Painting over the facades: Behind Lebanon’s NGO-addiction
Lebanon
Society
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Painting over the facades: Behind Lebanon’s NGO-addiction

The New Arab Staff

Marine Caleb and Philippe Pernot

22 December, 2022
A banner reading: #StandWithThe6" outside one of Al-Haq's Ramallah offices
Palestine
Society
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Palestinian NGOs banned by Israel continue fight for truth

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Nick McAlpin

28 November, 2022
Mali
World
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Mali bans French-backed NGOs' activities: govt

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
22 November, 2022