10 June 2024 The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) extends its condolences to the families of the Sudanese victims of thirst and heat who lost their lives during their trip to Egypt to escape the violent massacres in Sudan. Many Sudanese, including families, children and the elderly, had taken irregul…
A picture shows an advertising agency inside the Tahar Djaout press house in Algiers on January 18, 2023. Rights group Amnesty International urged Algeria on January 17, to immediately release prominent jailed journalist Ihsane El Kadi, condemning what it called a "ruthless campaign" to silence critics. (Photo by AFP)…
UN-appointed independent human rights investigators on Monday said there are grounds to believe that Libyan authorities and armed militia groups have been responsible for “a wide array” of war crimes, and crimes against humanity in recent years. In the case of State security forces, human rights violations were commit…
Families and relatives of those people arrested during anti-government protesters in Tripoli, Beqaa, and Beirut protest in the streets of Beirut, on February 24, 2021. (Photo by Diego Ibarra Sanchez/Getty Images) Law & Accountability Lebanon Death in Lebanon’s Interrogation Centers Law 191 is a legislative victory as …
The report highlighted the negative role of several EU member states and agencies, especially Frontex, in pushing migrants and asylum seekers back.
Egyptian Front for Human Rights documented gender-based violence (GBV) against women and girls, that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, in North Sinai by State and the armed group: Wilayat Sinai. The report is based on interviews with four lawyers of 23 female defendants facing charges of joining an…
Summary of violations in the context of counter-terrorism operations by the military in North Sinai Human Rights Watch stated that the counterterrorism policy of the army in Sinai, some of which amount to war crimes, relied on ignoring and violating civilians’ rights. Human Rights Watch found that both the hostile act…
Lebanese demonstrators gather to march towards the parliament building following the resignation of Lebanese government on August 11, 2020. (Photo by Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Law & Accountability Social Movements Lebanon A State of Emergency in Beirut: Ensuring Relief or Quashing Dissent? Just o…
TIMEP Brief: Export of Surveillance to MENA Countries The export of surveillance technology to MENA governments has led to violations of the rights to life, privacy, and freedom of speech, among others, imperiling journalists, activists, and researchers. TIMEP October 23, 2019 Summary: Companies around the world—inclu…
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for a complete overhaul of Honduras’s judicial system and its National Mechanism for the Protection of Journalists after TV reporter Edgar Joel Aguilar’s murder in Santa Rosa de Copán, the capital of the western department of Copán, on 31 August.