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On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain official documents in order to get married, but he did not make it out alive. He was brutally killed inside the consulate in what the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Dr Agnes Callamard, called a “premeditated extrajudicial […]

On September 19, 2019, during the 42nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, MENA Rights Group co-organised a side event highlighting the discriminatory practices of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances and the application of the capital punishment in Saudi Arabia.

On September 20, 2019, in a joint oral statement delivered before the Human Rights Council for the adoption of the outcome of Qatar’s Universal Periodic Review, a group of 9 NGOs expressed concern over the lack of endorsement of a range of recommendations of UN Member States related to the situation of migrant workers, stateless […]

On August 23, 2019, 23 NGOs wrote to the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights (ASG), the President of the Human Rights Council (HRC), and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, to raise concerns over an alarming pattern of intimidation and reprisals faced by members of civil society during sessions of the Human Rights Council and Treaty Bodies. The letter calls on the ASG to raise this issue during his speech before the HRC on September 19, 2019, and urges the OHCHR to take measures to ensure that such acts of reprisals are not repeated

It was a striking choice for France to invite Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to attend the 24-26 August G7 summit in Biarritz, for which the chosen theme is “the fight against inequality”. The number of Egyptians under the poverty line has clearly risen according to official Egyptian 2018 statistics, while the World Bank estimates that […]

25 July 2019 H. E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, We write to you in your capacity as the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, the secretariat of the continental organisation responsible for driving the political agenda and development of the people of Africa. As Chairperson of the AU Commission we are assured of your mandate to […]

To: Africa Cup of Nations Mouad HAJJI: Secretariat Tsaddik Alaoui: Deputy General Secretary Administration and Finance Anthony Baffoe: Deputy General Secretary Football & Development Orange Stéphane Richard, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Total Patrick Pouyanne, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer The Organizing Committee for Africa Cup of Nations Amaju Melvin Pinnick:President Egypt Uses Africa Cup […]

Saudi lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair is currently five years into a 15-year prison sentence in Saudi Arabia. His crime? Defending human rights.

In a joint letter to 48 ministries of foreign affairs from all regional groups at the UN, 40 human rights organisations call on states to advance a resolution at the Human Rights Council addressing ongoing human rights violations in Saudi Arabia.

To the UN Security Council 11 June 2019 RE: Appealing for Urgent Intervention to Prevent further Bloodshed in Sudan The undersigned, 30 civil society organisations from around the world, are writing to you at a critical time, the fate of the Sudanese people hangs in the balance and bold leadership is needed to prevent further […]

The attack on peaceful democracy protesters in Khartoum that began on June 3 that has reportedly seen the killing of at least 100 people and hundreds more injured demands a strong international response to immediately stop such attacks and ensure accountability for this and other violence in response to peaceful protests. At least three cases […]

On June 1, 2018, Yemeni journalist Marwan Al-Muraisy disappeared following his arrest in Saudi Arabia. One year on, his family is still waiting for answers.