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During an event at the UN Headquarters in New York, civil society organisations and the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism raised their concerns regarding the troubling pattern of transnational repression in the MENA region.

MENA Rights Group welcomes the United Nations (UN) Committee against Torture’s recommendations for Jordan to respect its obligations under the Convention against Torture. Jordanian authorities must work toward abolishing the practice of torture, holding perpetrators accountable, ensuring legal safeguards are afforded to all detainees, and prohibiting unlawful extraditions.   On November 6 and 7, 2024, […]

Washington, DC and Geneva, Switzerland – The Committee for Justice, Freedom House and MENA Rights Group praised the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s (WGAD) recently announced Opinion qualifying the detention of Moroccan activist Nasser Zefzafi as arbitrary, and calling on the Moroccan government to take action to release Zefzafi without delay.  Zefzafi is a Moroccan […]

A l’occasion de sa vingt-septième session, qui s’est tenue du 23 septembre au 4 octobre 2024, le Comité des disparitions forcées de l’ONU a examiné le premier rapport du Maroc, dans lequel les autorités marocaines ont détaillé les mesures prises pour mettre en œuvre la Convention internationale pour la protection de toutes les personnes contre […]

MENA Rights Group joins local and international NGOs in urging Lebanese judicial authorities to hold accountable the State Security officers who tortured Syrian refugee Bashar Abdel Saud to death.

MENA Rights Group joins 33 rights groups in their call on the Egyptian government to immediately lift the arbitrary travel bans and asset freezes imposed upon three directors of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a prominent Egyptian human rights organisation.

Following the arrest and detention in Saudi Arabia of Egyptian peaceful protestor Ahmed Kamel, who faces the threat of extradition to Egypt, MENA Rights Group leads a coalition of 12 human rights organisations calling for his immediate release.

MENA Rights Group, the Committee for Justice and the Egyptian Front for Human Rights welcome the recommendation by the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) to downgrade Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), to grade B. The organisations had previously submitted a joint report to the SCA outlining the NCHR's lack of compliance with the Paris Principles.

MENA Rights Group, Amnesty International, ALQST for Human Rights and the European-Saudi Organization for Human Rights call on Saudi Arabia to improve women's rights in the country and to abide by the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.

Alongside 20 Lebanese and international civil society organisations, MENA Rights Group sent a joint letter to UN member states, urging them to hold an emergency session at the UN Human Rights Council to investigate and pursue accountability for Israel's war crimes in Lebanon.

MENA Rights Group joins a global coalition of 50+ NGOs in calling for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon and urging the international community to restrict the transfer of arms to Israel.

MENA Rights Group joins 13 civil society organsiations in calling on Saudi authorities to immediately cease their misuse of judicial and administrative measures against human rights defenders, including the practice of imposing arbitrary travel bans, and to ensure that judicial complaints are addressed in accordance with international legal standards.