MENA Rights Group joins local and international civil society organisations in calling on Egyptian authorities to release Hoda Abdelmonem, a lawyer and human rights defender arbitrarily detained since 2018.
MENA Rights Group joins local civil society organisations in urging the German ambassador to address Israel's attacks against civilians and human rights violations in Lebanon.
MENA Rights Group joins local civil society organisations in condemning Israel's targeting of journalists in Lebanon and Palestine. The statement further calls for the unconditional protection of journalists in civilians as per international law, accountability for Israel's unlawful killings of journalists, and a total arms embargo on Israel.
MENA Rights Group, des organisations de défense des droits humains mauritaniennes, et des collectifs de victimes et ayants droit, ont rappelé dans une lettre adressée au Commissaire aux Droits de l’Homme et à l’Action Humanitaire et aux Relations avec la Société Civile, M. Sid’Ahmed Ould Benane, l'importance de mettre en œuvre les recommandations formulées par le Comité des disparitions forcées de l’ONU lors de ses Observations finales de septembre 2023.
MENA Rights Group joins 110+ international, regional and local civil society organisations in calling on US authorities to halt weapon sales to Israel in the wake of its assault on Gaza and Lebanon.
On the sidelines of the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council, MENA Rights Group co-organised a side event discussing the detrimental human rights impact of administrative counter-terrorism in the MENA region. The panelists highlighting the weaponisation of these measures against individuals and organisations and explored potential strategies to mitigate their adverse consequences on rights and freedoms in the region.
MENA Rights Group joins 7 civil society organisations in expressing alarm over the arrests and harassment of prominent activists and journalists following the Tunisian presidential elections in October 2024 and calling on Tunisian authorities to drop all charges brought against the detainees and respect their fundamental human rights.
On the World Day Against Death Penalty, MENA Rights group joined partner NGOs in condemning the soaring number of executions in Saudi Arabia and urging Saudi authorities to implement a moratorium on the death penalty.
MENA Rights Group provides a summary of the UNSG's main concerns over reprisals against human rights defenders in the MENA region, particularly in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Yemen.
On the occasion of the UN's 79th session, MENA Rights Group joined 28 civil society organisations in urging UN Member States to advocate for the release of human rights defenders opposition leaders, death row inmates, and all those who remain unfairly imprisoned in Bahrain during the high-level General Debate.
Following a request for Opinion filed by MENA Rights Group and the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights (ESOHR), the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) found that the detention of a Saudi businessman who participated in protests in the Qatif region of Saudi Arabia, violates international human rights law and qualifies as “arbitrary”.
MENA Rights Group joins NGOs in calling on partners of Saudi Arabia to monitor the ongoing trial of Salma al-Shehab and Nourah al-Qahtani, who are sentenced to 27 and 35 years in prison for their social media activity.
