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MENA Rights Group joins 30 organizations in expressing grave concerns regarding the death sentence and imminent executions of young men in Saudi Arabia for acts they committed as minors.

MENA Rights Group joins 15+ civil society organisations in urging Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release lawyer and human rights defender Hoda Abdel Moneim who has been arbitrarily detained for more than 2,000 days.

As the United Nations face a historic liquidity crisis due to unpaid dues, MENA Rights Group joins civil society organisations in urging Member States to fulfill their financial obligations, safeguarding critical human rights operations.

A l’issue de son quatrième cycle de l’Examen Périodique Universel, Djibouti a informé le Conseil des droits de l’Homme de sa décision d’accepter 228 des 269 recommandations que le pays avait reçues. Si Djibouti a accepté la plupart des recommandations appelant les autorités à renforcer la mise en œuvre concrète des droits humains, le pays n’a pas accepté celles concernant la ratification d’instruments supplémentaires relatifs aux droits humains.

Monday, 15 April 2024 marks the tenth anniversary of the arrest of Saudi human rights defender Waleed Abu al-Khair, who is serving a 15-year prison sentence as a result of his peaceful human rights activism. He has repeatedly been ill-treated in prison, including being denied vital medical care. The undersigned organisations call on the Saudi authorities to […]

As part of the Ramadan #ReleaseThem campaign, MENA Rights Group joins local and international civil society organisations in calling on Algerian authorities to release unjustly imprisoned detainees for expressing their opinions or peacefully exercising their freedoms, and to open up civic space to civil society actors in order to ensure the unhindered exercise of their missions towards the rule of law.

Committee for Justice, Freedom House, and MENA Rights Group have jointly petitioned the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) on behalf of Nasser Zefzafi, an imprisoned political activist in Morocco. Zefzafi is serving an unjust 20-year prison sentence for his peaceful activism on behalf of his indigenous Amazigh community in the marginalized Rif region.

MENA Rights Group joins 25+ civil society organisations in urging Bahraini authorities to release and provide adequate healthcare to human rights defender Dr Abduljalil al-Singace, who marks 1,000 days on a liquids-only hunger strike on April 3, 2024.

MENA Rights Group joins victims and survivors of the October 13, 2023 Israeli attack on journalists in South Lebanon as well as local, regional and international civil society in urging the UNIFIL to publish its full investigation into the attack.

MENA Rights Group joins 25+ civil society organisations in urging Egyptian authorities to immediately stop targeting Sudanese asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants for arbitrary arrest, detention and forced deportations.

MENA Rights Group joins 8 civil society organisations in condemning Saudi authorities' prosecution of football fans for their chants during a recent match under the repressive Anti-Cybercrime Law.

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.