We, the heads of over 50 human rights and humanitarian organizations are coming together to sound the alarm about Sudan, where a disaster is unfolding before our eyes. With fighting continuing …
Algeria: Halt Assault on Fundamental Freedoms
UN Expert’s Visit Amid Unrelenting Crackdown on Dissent The Algerian authorities should commit to end their attacks on civic space and allow independent organizations to operate without unreasonable restrictions …
Biden Decision to Grant Military Aid to Egypt Undermines U.S. Credibility and Interests
The Biden administration’s decision to provide the Government of Egypt with the $235 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Foreign Military Financing (FMF) that Congress conditioned on human rights benchmarks …
The National Strategy: Two Years of Denying the Ongoing Human Rights Crisis
Position Paper Introduction: On 13 December 2022, Egypt’s Supreme Standing Committee for Human Rights (SSCHR) issued a report titled “The National Strategy for Human Rights: A Year of Implementation,”[1] lauding …
Ibrahim Metwally: Six Years of Imprisonment for Searching for His Son, Who Has Been Forcibly Disappeared for Ten Years
Today marks six years since the detention of human rights lawyer Ibrahim Metwally, who was arrested on September 10, 2017. It worth noting that his period of detainment has surpassed …
Joint NGO Letter: The Need to Address the Situation of Prisoners in Bahrain at the 54th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
To the attention of: Permanent Missions of Member States to the United Nations in Geneva 6 September 2023 Your Excellency, We, the undersigned organisations, are writing to you urgently with …
Egypt: The immediate release of activist Mohamed Adel demanded by human rights organizations
The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the verdict sentencing the former spokesperson of the April 6 Youth Movement and political activist, Mohamed Adel, to four years in prison, after he …
Libya: Haftar forces should end forced displacement of Tebu families
On 24 August, paramilitary armed groups affiliated with Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) under the command of Khalifa Haftar, who controls vast swathes of Libyan territory, arrested hundreds of civilians …
Egypt: Immediately Release Prodemocracy Advocate Hesham Kassem and Cease the Targeting of Peaceful Dissidents
Egyptian authorities should immediately and unconditionally release Egyptian prodemocracy dissident and press publisher Hesham Kassem, as his detention stems from the exercise of his freedom of speech, said 12 organizations …
The Human Rights Council should establish an independent mechanism on Sudan
To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland) Excellencies, Following the outbreak of armed conflict in Khartoum and other areas …