MENA Rights Group joins a coalition of 20 civil society organisations in urging Lebanese authorities to respect their international obligations, specifically to investigate cases of torture and ill-treatment and to halt the unlawful deportations of Syrian refugees.
MENA Rights Group joins 11 civil society organisations in calling on Tunisian authorities to endthe ongoing crackdown on the rights to free expression and free association and to respect the human rights of everyone in the country, including migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
Ahead of the accreditation process in in 2024, MENA Rights Group has urged the Sub-Committee on Accreditation not to increase the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights' status given its lack of compliance with the principles of effectiveness, independence and pluralism.
MENA Rights Group joins 27 organisations in condemning the Egyptian government's intimidation and reprisals against lawyers and calling for the immediate release of all lawyers and human rights defenders detained for their work.
MENA Rights Group, Salam for Democracy and Human Rightsand the Bahrain Human Rights Society call on the Government of Bahrain and Bahrain’s National Institution for Human Rights (NIHRB) to increase the effectiveness of the NIHRB’s mandate and its independence from other branches (of government) and to improve the character of the NIHRB’s leadership for its accreditation level to be increased.
On the 50th anniversary of the UAE’s State Security Apparatus (SSA)’s establishment, MENA Rights Group, the Emirates Detainees Advocacy Center and Human Rights Watch call on Emirati authorities to immediately halt the SSA’s gross human rights violations.
MENA Rights Group joins 30+ organisations in raising concerns over the human rights situation in Bahrain to Member and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council ahead of its 56th session. In this joint letter, we highlight the continued arbitrary detention of human rights defenders in Bahrain and call on authorities to release them.
MENA Rights Group joins 11 civil society organisations in condemning and urging the Lebanese government to halt its forced deportations of Syrian refugees to areas inside Syria deemed unsafe.
MENA Rights Group, Addameer and Stop The Wall urgently appealed to the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders (HRDs) following Israel's administrative detention and ill-treatment of three Palestinian HRDs, urging her to call for their immediate release.
MENA Rights Group joins 13 civil society organisations in calling on Saudi Arabia’s authorities to immediately lift the illegal travel ban imposed on woman human rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul. A court-imposed ban on her travelling abroad expired six months ago today, but since then she has been under an arbitrary travel ban with no expiry date, in violation of both international human rights law and the kingdom’s own legislation.
MENA Rights Group joins 80+ organisations in reiterating their call on the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release prominent political activist Mohamed Adel, who has been arbitrarily detained for 5 years, amid mounting concern over his cruel and inhuman detention conditions and denial of adequate medical care.
MENA Rights Group and ALQST for Human Rights call on Saudi authorities to immediately disclose Mohammed al-Qahtani’s whereabouts and to release him, and to stop using the Saudi Human Rights Commission as cover for its rights violations.
