With CSO partners, MENA Rights Group call for the release of all those unjustly imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for their opinions and beliefs, and for an end to the imposition of travel bans, which are illegal in both international and domestic Saudi law.
Following its fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia informed the Human Rights Council of its decision to accept 83% of the recommendations it had received. While Saudi Arabia accepted the majority of recommendations, it rejected critical ones, notably on the release of political prisoners and the increasing use of the death penalty.
On 1 July 2024, during the 56th session of the Human Rights Council, professor Mouloud Boumghar delivered a joint statement on behalf of 14 organisations during the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. He addressed the crackdown on fundamental freedoms by the Algerian authorities and called them to repeal repressive laws.
MENA Rights Group joins organisations and victims' families in calling on the Human Rights Council to establish an international fact-finding mission into human rights violations related to the Beirut port explosion.
MENA Rights Group and the Oman Center for Human Rights and Democracy welcome the Sub-Committee on Accreditation's decision to defer the review of Oman's National Human Rights Institution over its lack of compliance with the Paris Principles.
MENA Rights Group joins a coalition of 20 civil society organisations in urging Lebanese authorities to respect their international obligations, specifically to investigate cases of torture and ill-treatment and to halt the unlawful deportations of Syrian refugees.
MENA Rights Group joins 11 civil society organisations in calling on Tunisian authorities to endthe ongoing crackdown on the rights to free expression and free association and to respect the human rights of everyone in the country, including migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
Ahead of the accreditation process in in 2024, MENA Rights Group has urged the Sub-Committee on Accreditation not to increase the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights' status given its lack of compliance with the principles of effectiveness, independence and pluralism.
MENA Rights Group joins 27 organisations in condemning the Egyptian government's intimidation and reprisals against lawyers and calling for the immediate release of all lawyers and human rights defenders detained for their work.
MENA Rights Group, Salam for Democracy and Human Rightsand the Bahrain Human Rights Society call on the Government of Bahrain and Bahrain’s National Institution for Human Rights (NIHRB) to increase the effectiveness of the NIHRB’s mandate and its independence from other branches (of government) and to improve the character of the NIHRB’s leadership for its accreditation level to be increased.
On the 50th anniversary of the UAE’s State Security Apparatus (SSA)’s establishment, MENA Rights Group, the Emirates Detainees Advocacy Center and Human Rights Watch call on Emirati authorities to immediately halt the SSA’s gross human rights violations.
MENA Rights Group joins 30+ organisations in raising concerns over the human rights situation in Bahrain to Member and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council ahead of its 56th session. In this joint letter, we highlight the continued arbitrary detention of human rights defenders in Bahrain and call on authorities to release them.
