MENA Rights Group, alongside 26 civil society organizations, calls on UN Human Rights Council member and observer states to urge Bahrain to release arbitrarily detained activists and death row inmates ahead of Eid al-Adha.
MENA Rights Group, with different civil society organisations, call on the Saudi authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani, after being detained for peacefully expressing her opinion on social media.
On March 7, 2025, MENA Rights Group co-hosted a side event during the 58th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The event focused on the shrinking civic space in Algeria since the visit in the country of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, in 2023. The discussion coincided with the presentation of the Special Rapporteur’s country visit report.
On the sidelines of the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council, MENA Rights Group co-organised a side event bringing together civil society actors and the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism to discuss concerning trends of counter-terrorism abuse and its negative impact on human rights across the MENA region.
MENA Rights Group joins 30+ civil society organisations in addressing an open letter to the United Kingdom and the European Union to call for the release of Egyptian poet Abdulrahman al-Qaradawi.
MENA Rights Group, alongside 17 international and national human rights organizations and the families of the victims of the August 2020 port blast, is calling on the Prime Minister and the Justice Minister to take all necessary steps to ensure that the investigation into the blast proceeds without any interference or obstruction.
During its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on January 27, 2025, Iraq received 263 recommendations from 93 States on various issues including its human rights framework, the right to freedom of expression, and the death penalty.
MENA Rights Group and 19 organisations call on Bulgarian authorities to immediately grant asylum to Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman al-Khalidi.
MENA Rights Group joins 23 organisations to call on Bahraini authorities to immediately release human rights defender Ali al-Hajee, recently arrested for his social media activity.
MENA Rights Group joins partner organisations in addressing a letter to the King of Bahrain to demand that equal rights be granted to women in transmitting their citizenship to children.
