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MENA Rights Group joins 11 other NGOs in condemning Meta's decision to restrict human rights accounts in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates at the request of the two governments, and calling on Meta to act in line with its human rights responsibilities.

MENA Rights Group, des organisations de défense des droits humains mauritaniennes, et des collectifs de victimes et ayants droit, ont rappelé dans une lettre adressée au Commissaire aux Droits de l’Homme et à l’Action Humanitaire et aux Relations avec la Société Civile, M. Sid’Ahmed Ould Benane, l'importance de mettre en œuvre les recommandations formulées par le Comité des disparitions forcées de l’ONU lors de ses Observations finales de septembre 2023.

MENA Rights Group joins 110+ international, regional and local civil society organisations in calling on US authorities to halt weapon sales to Israel in the wake of its assault on Gaza and Lebanon.

Copy to: Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), Teams, Drivers and Sponsors 26 February 2024   Dear Stefano Domenicali, We, the undersigned organisations, are writing to renew our concerns about Bahrain’s use of the F1 Grand Prix to “sportswash” the country’s dire human rights record. As you mark two decades of racing in Bahrain, and amid […]

A coalition of civil society organisations led by MENA Rights Group urges the Bureau International des Expositions’ Member States not to vote for Saudi Arabia to host the World Expo in 2030 given the Kingdom’s documented and internationally recognised appalling human rights record.

MENA Rights Group joins 160+ civil society organisations in calling on States to halt arms exports to Israel, as well as demanding a ceasefire and the end of the illegal blockade on Gaza.

Led by MENA Rights Group, civil society organisations wrote a joint letter to French President Emmanuel Macron amid Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to Paris, urging him to consider the widespread human rights violations occurring in the Kingdom.

MENA Rights Group joins 17 organisations in urging Microsoft to suspend its plans to invest in a new cloud data center in Saudi Arabia due to the country's record of human rights violations.

MENA Rights Group joins 7 human rights NGOs in sending an open letter to Boeing in light of their latest commercial deals with Saudi Arabia, calling on the latter to lift travel bans on human rights activists.

MENA Rights Group is taking the French energy giant TotalEnergies to court for failing to comply with its due diligence obligation in relation to human rights abuses committed in a gas liquefaction plant in Balhaf, Yemen. The lawsuit seeks reparations for two torture survivors and demands the inclusion of the Balhaf site in Total’s Vigilance Plan to prevent the recurrence of abuses.

Public statement on the submission of an expert opinion drafted by Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), MENA Rights Group, and the Freedom Initiative supporting a complaint filed in Belgium in December 2021 by the Open Society Justice Initiative against Saudi Arabia for crimes against humanity. The expert opinion highlighted “systemic and generalized violations of human rights committed against individuals who have peacefully criticized authorities or their policies”.

In a joint letter to the CEO of the Formula One Group, Stefano Domenicali, 27 human rights organisations called on Formula One to publicly acknowledge the human rights violations taking place in Bahrain and refrain from contributing to the sportswashing of such abuses. The coalition of organisations further called on Formula One to review their official policy on racing in Bahrain, as well as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, given their roles in the military campaign in Yemen.