Advocacy

In an open letter, over 50 NGOs call on the immediate and unconditional release of Karim Ennarah, Mohammed Basheer and Gasser Abdel-Razek from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).

November 19, 2020 The Honorable Alberto Fernández, President, Argentina The Honorable Scott Morrison, Prime Minister, Australia The Honorable Jair Bolsonaro, President, Brazil The Honorable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister, Canada The Honorable Xi Jinping, President, China The Honorable Charles Michel, President, European Council The Honorable Ursula von der Leyen, President, European Commission The Honorable Emmanuel Macron, […]

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).

On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the independence of Mauritania on 28 November 2020, the Cadre de Concertation des Rescapés Mauritaniens en Europe et aux Etats Unis (CCRM-E/USA) and its member organisations launch an urgent appeal for the settlement of the period commonly referred to as “Passif humanitaire”, a euphemistic term referring to […]

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.

MENA Rights Group and 18 NGOs are urging organisers, participants and sponsors of the Ladies European Tour, which will hold its first golf tournament in Saudi Arabia in November, to reconsider their participation and denounce human rights violations against women in the Kingdom.

An NGO coalition comprising the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies, Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL), MENA Rights Group, REDRESS and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) welcome a resolution of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Commission) calling for guidelines aimed at ending enforced disappearances in Africa. In Resolution […]

On September 24th, during the 45th session of the UN Human Rights Council, ALQST, Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), MENA Rights Group, and the Right Livelihood Foundation delivered a statement denouncing Saudi Arabia’s appalling human rights record. In particular, we condemned the arbitrary detention of Right Livelihood Laureates Mohammed al-Qahtani and […]

Sent to: Berlin Mayor Michael Müller Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner London Mayor Sadiq Khan Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Madrid Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi September 18, 2020 Dear Mayor, We are a global coalition of human […]

The undersigned civil society groups are alarmed at the continued and escalating attacks on civic space in Algeria and call on the government to end their crackdown on journalistic and other public freedoms. Despite President Abdelmadjid Tebboune announcing his desire to break with previous repressive practices, freedom of expression especially has come under severe attack since March 2020, with several journalists facing arbitrary arrest and prosecution for conducting their work in the country.

27.08.2020 – Ahead of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances on 30 August, an NGO coalition is calling on African States to end this practice immediately, hold perpetrators to account, search for the disappeared and provide reparations to the victims and their families. The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (Sudan), […]

27 août 2020 – À l’occasion de la Journée internationale des victimes de disparitions forcées, le 30 août, une coalition d’ONG appelle les États africains à mettre fin immédiatement à cette pratique, à contraindre les personnes responsables à rendre des comptes, à rechercher les disparu·e·s et à accorder des réparations aux victimes et à leurs […]