An open letter from Lebanese and international organisations, survivors and families of victims urging the Permanent Representative of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council to support the adoption of a resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council at its 54th regular session to establish an international, independent and impartial fact-finding mission into human rights violations related to the Beirut port explosion of 4 August 2020.
Joining civil society representatives from across the region, MENA Rights Group attended the Congress organised by Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM) and signed the declaration calling for an end to the death penalty in the Middle East and North Africa.
Marking the 2 year anniversary of his arrest, MENA Rights Group and Safeguard Defenders call on Moroccan authorities to cancel extradition proceedings against Uyghur activist Idris Hasan and to ensure his passage to a safe country.
MENA Rights Group joins 40+ civil society organisations in condemning the Egyptian authorities' sentence against academic and researcher Patrick George Zaki for merely exercising his right to freedom of expression.
As part of the “Freedom of Opinion and Expression Coalition” in Lebanon, MENA Rights Group strongly condemns judicial decisions aimed at suppressing freedom of expression, especially the charges against journalist & media personality Dima Sadek.
Following a complaint submitted by ALQST for Human Rights, Democracy for the Arab World, Freedom Initiative, Human Rights Foundation and MENA Rights Group, the UNWGAD issued an Opinion qualifying the detention of Saudi activists Salma al-Shehab and Nourah al-Qahtani as arbitrary and in violation of international human rights standards.
MENA Rights Group joined 14 civil society organisations in urging the UN Special Rapporteur to address and condemn the violation of the right to peaceful assembly in the 4 countries.
MENA Rights Group was joined by regional and internnational civil society organisations in urging MENA states to fulfill their obligations under the UN Convention against Torture, including the eradication of the practice of torture & accountability for perpetrators.
In honor of International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, local civil society organisations joined MENA Rights Group in urging Lebanese authorities to enforce Lebanon’s Anti-Torture Law No. 65/2017.
Led by MENA Rights Group, civil society organisations wrote a joint letter to French President Emmanuel Macron amid Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to Paris, urging him to consider the widespread human rights violations occurring in the Kingdom.
MENA Rights Group joins 17 organisations in urging Microsoft to suspend its plans to invest in a new cloud data center in Saudi Arabia due to the country's record of human rights violations.
The UAE received 323 recommendations from UN Member States on various human rights issues during its 4th cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Ahead of the review, MENA Rights Group submitted a shadow report outlining a set of recommendations. In the press release below, we summarise the most crucial recommendations.
