While welcoming moves to implement measures that guarantee media independence, the IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG), a coalition of 21 IFEX members, calls on the Tunisian government to fully respect …
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People: 31 Arab Human Rights Organizations Demand United Nations Recognize Palestinian Statehood
In 1977, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly (GA) designated 29 November as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Thirty-five years later, the human rights and humanitarian …
Call for Special Session of the Human Rights Council in the Gaza Strip : Violations of International Law Must End
November 16, 2012 – International, regional and national human rights organisations submitted an open letter to the Human Rights Council members today calling upon them to convene a Special Session …
Ministry of Foreign Affairs cancels invitations to advocacy groups to meet with EU; President excludes rights organizations from meeting with “civil society”
Joint Press Release by 21 Egyptian Human Rights organizations The undersigned rights organizations strongly condemn the exclusion of Independent Egyptian human rights organizations by the Egyptian authorities. Two days ago, …
Letter to Ethiopia regarding Human Rights Council Candidacy
November 8, 2012 Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Office of the Prime Minster P.O. Box 1031 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Dear Prime Minister, We, the undersigned, are …
Letter to UAE regarding Human Rights Council Candidacy
November 7, 2012 H.R.H. Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan President United Arab Emirates Your Majesty, We, the undersigned, are a diverse group of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from around the …
Bahrain Prosecutes Human Rights Activist for his UN Work
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) strongly denounce the arbitrary arrest, detention, and politically motivated charges brought against human rights …
SYRIA: Concern following the enforced disappearance of human rights lawyer Khalil Maatouk
Copenhagen, Geneva, Paris, October 3, 2012. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation …
‘Counter-Revolution’ at the United Nations Human Rights Council? Arab states respond to unprecedented scrutiny with attacks on rights defenders and standards
From 10-28 September, during the 21st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Council), an unprecedented number of governments from the Arab region came under international scrutiny and …