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MENA Rights Group joins 25+ civil society organisations in urging Bahraini authorities to release and provide adequate healthcare to human rights defender Dr Abduljalil al-Singace, who marks 1,000 days on a liquids-only hunger strike on April 3, 2024.

MENA Rights Group joins victims and survivors of the October 13, 2023 Israeli attack on journalists in South Lebanon as well as local, regional and international civil society in urging the UNIFIL to publish its full investigation into the attack.

MENA Rights Group joins 25+ civil society organisations in urging Egyptian authorities to immediately stop targeting Sudanese asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants for arbitrary arrest, detention and forced deportations.

MENA Rights Group joins 8 civil society organisations in condemning Saudi authorities' prosecution of football fans for their chants during a recent match under the repressive Anti-Cybercrime Law.

In March 2023, MENA Rights Group adopted the 4-day work week in order to boost our team's productivity and increase their quality of life. One year later, we reflect on the policy's impact on our organisation and encourage others to consider adopting it.

In a letter addressed to the Sub-Committee on Accreditation, MENA Rights Group and the Oman Center for Human Rights and Democracy have warned that Oman’s national human rights institution (NHRI), the Omani Human Rights Commission (OHRC) fails to fulfill its mandate to protect human rights in the country. The NGOs urged the Committee to grant the OHRC with “B” status, to mark its lack of independence from the Omani government and its ineffectiveness.

On March 15, 2024, Right Livelihood, ALQST for Human Rights and MENA Rights Group delivered a joint oral statement before the Human Rights Council (HRC), during the general debate of its 55th session, highlighting the systematic human rights violations committed by Saudi authorities.

MENA Rights Group joins a coalition of civil society organisations in urging Bulgarian authorities not to deport Abdulrahman al-Khalidi, a Saudi activist currently detained in Bulgaria. The organisations further call on Bulgarian authorities to release him from detention and reconsider his asylum application.

On International Women's Day 2024, MENA Rights Group led a coalition of civil society organisations in renewing our call on Saudi authorities to release women human rights defenders, women’s rights activists and their supporters who are detained in contravention of international human rights standards. We further urge the authorities to lift travel bans on any women activists and to abolish the male guardianship system.

MENA Rights Group leads a coalition of human rights organisations in calling on UAE authorities to immediately release arbitrarily detained Jordanian activist Ahmed al-Atoum after his mother's sudden passing. While al-Atoum is serving a 10-year sentence for Facebook posts criticising Jordanian authorities, he did not get a chance to say goodbye to his mother, nor to grieve her death with his family.

MENA Rights Group joins the Coalition to Defend Freedom of Expression in Lebanon and 120+ organisations in urging UN experts to demand an independent investigation into Israel's attacks against Lebanese journalists.

Copy to: Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), Teams, Drivers and Sponsors 26 February 2024   Dear Stefano Domenicali, We, the undersigned organisations, are writing to renew our concerns about Bahrain’s use of the F1 Grand Prix to “sportswash” the country’s dire human rights record. As you mark two decades of racing in Bahrain, and amid […]