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, …
The UN Human Rights Council should urgently respond to the global pattern of deaths, torture and other grave human rights violations at international borders
Dear Excellencies, The undersigned civil society organizations and groups write to express our deep concern about policies and practices of migration governance that lead to deaths, torture and other grave …
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 …
Rescue is a right and a duty, not a crime! Stop attacks against CSOs and people on the move
30+ civil society organisations (CSOs) raise their concerns and address their recommendations to the European Union and its Member States ahead of the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting today …
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 …
Over 45 African and international organizations call on the AfDB to open spaces for civil society and communities during the Annual Meetings and beyond
From May 22 to the 26, the Board of Directors and other key management staff of the African Development Bank (AfDB) will be gathering for the 58th Annual Meetings in …
Egypt: 1526 citizens on terrorism lists for an additional five years further evidences justice system’s deterioration
The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the decision of the 10th Circuit of the Cairo Criminal Court to include 1526 Egyptians on terrorism lists for an additional five years. We …
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 …