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In March 2023, MENA Rights Group adopted the 4-day work week in order to boost our team's productivity and increase their quality of life. One year later, we reflect on the policy's impact on our organisation and encourage others to consider adopting it.

In a letter addressed to the Sub-Committee on Accreditation, MENA Rights Group and the Oman Center for Human Rights and Democracy have warned that Oman’s national human rights institution (NHRI), the Omani Human Rights Commission (OHRC) fails to fulfill its mandate to protect human rights in the country. The NGOs urged the Committee to grant the OHRC with “B” status, to mark its lack of independence from the Omani government and its ineffectiveness.

On March 15, 2024, Right Livelihood, ALQST for Human Rights and MENA Rights Group delivered a joint oral statement before the Human Rights Council (HRC), during the general debate of its 55th session, highlighting the systematic human rights violations committed by Saudi authorities.

MENA Rights Group joins a coalition of civil society organisations in urging Bulgarian authorities not to deport Abdulrahman al-Khalidi, a Saudi activist currently detained in Bulgaria. The organisations further call on Bulgarian authorities to release him from detention and reconsider his asylum application.

On International Women's Day 2024, MENA Rights Group led a coalition of civil society organisations in renewing our call on Saudi authorities to release women human rights defenders, women’s rights activists and their supporters who are detained in contravention of international human rights standards. We further urge the authorities to lift travel bans on any women activists and to abolish the male guardianship system.

MENA Rights Group leads a coalition of human rights organisations in calling on UAE authorities to immediately release arbitrarily detained Jordanian activist Ahmed al-Atoum after his mother's sudden passing. While al-Atoum is serving a 10-year sentence for Facebook posts criticising Jordanian authorities, he did not get a chance to say goodbye to his mother, nor to grieve her death with his family.

MENA Rights Group joins the Coalition to Defend Freedom of Expression in Lebanon and 120+ organisations in urging UN experts to demand an independent investigation into Israel's attacks against Lebanese journalists.

Copy to: Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), Teams, Drivers and Sponsors 26 February 2024   Dear Stefano Domenicali, We, the undersigned organisations, are writing to renew our concerns about Bahrain’s use of the F1 Grand Prix to “sportswash” the country’s dire human rights record. As you mark two decades of racing in Bahrain, and amid […]

Depuis cinq ans et le début du mouvement de protestation du Hirak, les défenseur·es des droits humains et les activistes font face à une répression de grande ampleur, les poussant parfois à l’exil. Dans ce contexte, MENA Rights Group et les organisations signataires expriment leur inquiétude et appellent à la fin de cette répression, exhortant les autorités algériennes à respecter les droits fondamentaux consacrés. Elles enjoignent par ailleurs les autorités françaises à mettre fin au harcèlement des militant·es présent·es sur leur territoire et à garantir la liberté d’expression.

MENA Rights Group expresses deep concern over reported human rights violations against Afghan refugees who have been stuck in the "Emirates Humanitarian City" since August 2021.

Marking 13 years since the ousting of Egyptian autocrat Mubarak, MENA Rights Group joins 18 civil society organisations in calling on Egyptian authorities to release thousands of unjustly detained persons, end the use of enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killing and torture, halt attacks against independent media and civil society, and to uphold basic human rights and freedoms.

On the "Global Day of CommemorAction", MENA Rights Group joins local civil society organisations in urging Lebanese authorities to investigate the April 2022 sinking of a migrant boat, to respect the principle of non-refoulement for asylum seekers and to provide safe and legal alternatives to irregular migration.