Archive: uae
21st June 2015
Amid growing media interest in the mysterious affairs of GNRD (the Global Network for Rights and Development), various items have begun disappearing from its website.
Norwegian media have been investigating GNRD following a police raid on its headquarters in Stavanger and the arrest of its founder… Read more
19th June 2015
The UN's Geneva headquarters. GNRD will be holding two meetings there next week
The Global Network for Rights and Development – the organisation at the centre of a $13 million money-laundering investigation by Norwegian police – will be making use of its newly-acquired UN "consultative status"… Read more
18th June 2015
An update on latest developments in the evolving GNRD scandal:
Loai Deeb, founder and president of the Global Network for Rights and Development, has returned to his Norwegian base following a visit to the United Arab Emirates where his organisation has various connections. He is expected to give… Read more
17th June 2015
The Global Network for Rights and Development, the strange but well-funded human rights organisation raided by Norwegian police on suspicion of money-laundering, issued a blustering press release in Arabic yesterday denouncing the police action as "unjustified and irresponsible" and threatening to… Read more
15th June 2015
Just two months ago, the head of cultural studies at Stavanger university in Norway signed a cooperation agreement with an obscure but very well funded human rights organisation – the Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD).
According to GNRD, which is also based in Stavanger, the… Read more
15th June 2015
The five-star Hotel President Wilson stands on the shores of Lake Geneva, offering "exceptional" views of Mont Blanc, and its three restaurants are said to provide "unparalleled culinary delights". Room prices in the Wilson hotel start at around £250 a night, ranging up to £52,000 a night for… Read more
13th June 2015
Arrested: GNRD's founder/president Loai Deeb
Last February, a few months after I began investigating the Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD), the Norwegian-based organisation issued a press release urging people to take no notice of what I was writing.
"After carefully examining all… Read more
12th June 2015
During the last two years there have been 62,312 terrorist incidents worldwide which left 632,716 people dead and 1,763,802 injured.
Worldwide, terrorists are in full control of approximately 12.5 million square kilometers of territory.
Military means have limited the ability of terrorism… Read more
30th April 2015
I had been looking forward to this year's International Human Rights Rank Indicator (IHRRI) which was due to be issued tomorrow but – alas – it has suddenly, and without explanation, been postponed for several months.
The IHRRI is (or perhaps was) an international league table of human rights,… Read more
1st April 2015
The saga of the UAE and its harassment of critics continues. Last week it emerged that two Americans who publicly criticised the exploitation of migrant workers in the Emirates had found themselves under investigation by a private detective who was looking for people to say negative things about… Read more
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
