Despite Bahrain’s longstanding status as a systematic perpetrator of severe human rights violations, the Prime Minister of Bahrain Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa received an honorary award in the presence of Norwegian …
French weapons in Yemen: clarification urgently needed after new revelations about the use of French-manufactured warships in the naval blockade on Yemen
New call from 16 NGOs to end of arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in the face of the risk of complicity in serious violations 16 …
Open letter to EU Member States Ahead of the Universal Periodic Review of Egypt
Your Excellency, The next Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Egypt’s human rights record is scheduled for 13 November 2019, under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. …
Sudan: Ensuring a credible response by the UN Human Rights Council at its 42nd session.
To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland Excellencies, Ahead of the 42nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council …
More than 100 Organisations Call for the Release of the UN Database of Businesses Engaged in Activities with Israeli Settlements
On 27 August 2019, 103 local, regional and international organizations called on the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Madam Michelle Bachelet, to release the UN database of …
EGYPT: Release Ramy Shaath!
Paris-Cairo-Geneva, August 30, 2019 Mr. Ramy Shaath, political opponent and Coordinator of the BDS movement in Egypt, is arbitrarily detained since July 5. The information was made public last week …
Egypt: Immediately release defenders Ibrahim Ezz El-Din and Haitham Mohammedein, and end reprisals against rights organizations
The undersigned rights organizations demand the immediate release of researcher Ibrahim Ezz El-Din and labor lawyer and activist Haitham Mohammedein, both working at the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms …
Civil society—not repressive regimes—should discuss inequality at G7
Later this week, France will host the annual G7 summit in Biarritz, with a theme of “fighting inequality” — including gender inequality. FIDH and 73 of its member organisations around …
The UN postpones its regional conference in Egypt on the crime of torture
Human rights organizations: Egypt’s appalling record of torture should disqualify it from hosting conference The signatory Egyptian rights organizations thank all parties, both Egyptian activists and international organizations, for their …