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MENA Rights Group joins hundreds of other organisations in urging states to urgently address the critical funding situation which may adversely impact on the capacity of various human rights mechanisms to carry out their mandates effectively.

While journalists continue to face severe abuses, newly adopted and draft legislation on cybercrime, fake news and hate speech has restricted press freedom across the region.

Following the adoption of Saudi Arabia’s Universal Periodic Review outcome on March 14, MENA Rights Group, Alqst, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation and OMCT called on the international community to maintain pressure on the Saudi government to improve the human rights situation in the country.

In statement delivered during 40th session of Human Rights Council, states called on Saudi Arabia to release human rights defenders and ensure those responsible for killing of Jamal Khashoggi are held to account.

The following letter was sent to over 30 Ministers of Foreign Affairs of States calling on UN Member States to adopt a resolution at the 40th session of the UN Human Rights Council calling explicitly for the immediate and unconditional release of the detained Saudi women human rights defenders and establishing a monitoring mechanism over […]

MENA Rights Group hosts its first event at UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, taking the form of a panel discussion on the current human rights situation in Saudi Arabia.

Should the “Law on Information Technology Crimes” be enacted in its current form, it would constitute a serious setback for freedom of expression in Iraq, and would establish a climate of self-censorship in the country.

Civil society call on Human Rights Council to dispatch an independent international fact-finding mission to establish the facts and circumstances of alleged human rights abuses committed in Sudan.

Saudi Arabia – On international Human Rights Day, commit to these, eight specific human rights initiatives to end the human rights crisis

We, the undersigning organisations, welcome the French prosecutor’s decision to issue  arrest warrants against three senior Syrian security officers: first and foremost Major General Ali Mamlouk, the Director of the Syrian National Security Bureau, Major General Jamil Al Hassan, the Head of Air Intelligence Branch and Abdel Salam Mahmoud, the Head of the Air Force […]

UN Member States raise issues including capital punishment, freedom of expression, women’s rights and the war in Yemen as part of Saudi Arabia’s third Universal Periodic Review