Advocacy / United Arab Emirates
27 NGOs urge Sheikh Zayed Book Awards winners to reject prize
On Monday May 10, a coalition of 27 NGOs jointly called on the recipients of the Sheikh Zayed Book Awards to reject their prize, withdraw from the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair and stand in solidarity with prisoners of conscience in the UAE.
Call for the release of prisoners of conscience in the Gulf in light of the lifting of Qatar blockade
On January 5, 2021, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Egypt, signed a “solidarity and stability” agreement, at the Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Al-Ulah, Saudi Arabia, ending the blockade on Qatar.
UAE: Call for the release of human rights defender and lawyer Dr. Mohammed Al-Roken
December 10, 2020
A coalition of NGOs calls on Hillary Clinton and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security to withdraw from UAE-sponsored Event
A coalition of 14 NGOs delivered a joint letter to Hilary Clinton, the former United States Secretary of State, Melanne Verveer, the Executive Director of the Georgetown Institute, and Agathe Christien, the Hillary Rodham Clinton Research Fellow at the Institute, urging them to withdraw from a Georgetown event sponsored by the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
NGOs express concern over the candidacy of UAE's Ahmed Nasser Al Raisi to the Presidency of INTERPOL
On October 28, 2020, MENA Rights Group and 18 other organisations delivered a joint letter to the Secretary General of INTERPOL, Jürgen Stock, expressing concern over the potential appointement of UAE's Ahmed Nasser Al Raisi to the Presidency of Interpol.
Open letter to the UAE calling for the release of prominent lawyer and human rights defender Dr Mohammed Al-Roken
Excellencies, We, the undersigned, call on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to immediately and unconditionally release prominent human rights defender Dr Mohammed Al-Roken, arbitrarily detained since 2012 solely for peacefully exercising his rights to freedom of expression and association, including through his work as a human rights lawyer.
“Don’t whitewash the UAE’s gross human rights abuses”: NGOs call on World Tolerance Summit speakers to cancel their participation
Dear participants of the World Tolerance Summit, We, the undersigned, call on all participants and speakers at the World Tolerance Summit taking place in Dubai on November 13 and 14 to withdraw from the event, which promotes a misleading image of the United Arab Emirates as a model of tolerance and openness. This is the second World Tolerance Summit, initiated in 2018 to “strengthen the UAE’s position as a model of co-existence and cultural tolerance around the world.”
Open letter to the Emirati authorities to free human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor on his 50th birthday
October 16, 2019 Your Excellency, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan,