T H E M E “Resisting Defeatism” Humanity has endured endless tests throughout the recent decades, with the past year proving particularly devastating. The ongoing genocidal wars in Gaza and …
Libya: New Morality Measures Will Impose Authoritarian Hegemony over Society
On 6 November 2024, plans to establish a ‘Morality Police’ and impose veiling on women were announced by Libya’s Minister of the Interior, Imad Trabelsi, representing the Tripoli-based internationally recognized …
56th Session of the UN Human Rights Council:
Rights Protections Undermined as Victims Increasingly Abandoned
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) expressed profound concern over the increasing abandonment of victims of wide-spread and severe human rights violations throughout the MENA region and wider world, …
After 7 October: Prospects in the Arab World
Over the two waves of the Arab Spring uprisings, which spanned nearly a decade, the Arab world was unable to find a common middle ground between the ruling elites and …
Libya: Research briefing on the use of security and religious discourse to justify repression
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Reviving Hope in Libya:
The UN Human Rights Council Must Reinstate Investigations to Break the Cycle of Violence
A resolution on Libya is due to be debated during the ongoing 56th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Council). One year ago, the Council disbanded a …
Libya: Human Rights Council must pursue accountability and ensure continued scrutiny of deteriorating human rights situation
Rights organizations in joint letter Your excellency, We are writing to express our grave concern about the extremely dire human rights situation in Libya, and to urge your delegation …
World Refugee Day: for the defence of human rights in the Euro-Mediterranean region, stop with European externalisation policies.
Today, on World Refugee Day, and following the results of the recent European elections, EuroMed Rights and its member organisations denounce the rapidly deteriorating conditions faced by people on the …
Priorities of the human rights movement amid a region in crisis and a crumbling international order
Conclusions of the 27th Regional Forum of the Human Rights Movement The future of human rights in the Arab region faces a compounded crisis. On the one hand, the ability …
55th Session of the UN Human Rights Council: Between Palestine and Ukraine
Double-standards and silence in the face of atrocities are eroding the UN rights system
On 5 April, the longest session in the history of the United Nations Human Rights Council came to an end. Over a six-week period, UN member states debated and voted …