A group of 20 migrants and asylum seekers from Western and Central Africa were forcibly displaced to the Tunisian-Libyan border (near Ben Guerdane) on the morning of July 2nd by …
Joint Statement: Human Rights Organisations Welcome the Release of OHCHR’s Update of the UN Database of businesses facilitating Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and Call for Full and Annual Implementation of the Mandate
Following its long overdue release, we welcome the recent publication of the update to the United Nations database of businesses facilitating Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, issued by …
Algeria: Free People Held After Activist Fled
Relatives, Journalist, Scholar Jailed in Apparent Retribution The Algerian authorities have been holding at least four people for more than four months, including a journalist, for allegedly helping an activist …
Civil Society Organizations Urge UN Member States to Vote in Favor of Independent Institution on Missing Persons in Syria
At the end of June, the UN General Assembly will be called to vote on a resolution to establish an independent institution to clarify the fate and whereabouts of missing …
UN Global Study on the Impact of Counter-Terrorism Measures on Civil Society and Civic Space should be a wake-up call to end abuse of counter-terrorism measures to violate human rights
View PostSudan War: Protect Refugees and IDPs including Women and WHRDs
On June 8th, 2023 the Sudanese Ministry of transportation announced that all Sudanese nationals including women and children are required to obtain visas to cross to Egypt starting June 10th, …
Algeria: Release journalist Ihsane El Kadi facing five years on bogus charges
Independent journalist Ihsane El Kadi, imprisoned since December 2022 and recently sentenced to five years in prison on bogus charges, should be immediately and unconditionally released, demands the Cairo Institute …
Libya: New commission to apply Gaddafi-era law is ominous development for civil society
A decision issued on 22 May 2023 by the Government of National Unity in Tripoli will create a new commission to oversee civil society organizations (CSOs). Under the purview of …
Palestine: Israeli Apartheid – The Legacy of the Ongoing Nakba at 75
Seventy-five years have passed since the Palestinian people were ethnically cleansed and forcibly expelled from their homes, lands, and property in their ancestral land during the 1948 Nakba (meaning ‘catastrophe’ …
Libya: Violating women’s right to freedom of movement is an insult to Libyan women and a contravention of the constitution and law
We, the undersigned activists and civil society organizations, express our strong condemnation of the discriminatory measures imposed by the Internal Security Agency of Libya’s National Unity Government on women’s freedom …