Human rights in Middle East and North Africa

Human rights in Middle East and North Africa Regional Overview

In Egypt, Iran and Jordan, security forces used unlawful, sometimes lethal, force alongside enforced disappearances and mass arbitrary arrests to suppress ...

Human rights in Middle East and North Africa - Amnesty International

The impacts of other long-standing conflicts in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen continued to blight the lives of millions of people, particularly those from ...

Human Rights situation in the MENA region | ROMENA - ohchr

The Middle East and North Africa faces significant challenges, including situations of armed conflict, the rise of violent extremism and the counter-terrorism ...

Middle East/North Africa | Country Page | World - Human Rights Watch

Reports · “Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged” · Lebanon: Israeli Attacks on Medics Apparent War Crimes · Syrians Fleeing Lebanon Risk Repression Upon Return.

Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa | OHCHR

The UN Human Rights Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa (ROMENA) is located in Lebanon and covers the following countries: Algeria, Bahrain, ...

MENA Rights Group: Home

We defend and promote human rights in the Middle East and North Africa ; Cases · December 05, 2023 ; Advocacy. loujain al hathloul and logos. October 31, 2024.

Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Series

About the Series. The Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Series explores critical topics related to women's rights, human rights, and ...

Middle East and North Africa: End Curbs on Women's Mobility

All authorities in the Middle East and North Africa should eliminate any and all discriminatory restrictions on women's freedom of movement ...

Middle East and North Africa - International Justice Resource Center

As of January 2021, there are 16 States parties to the Arab Charter on Human Rights: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, ...

Middle East and North Africa - Open Society Foundations

The Open Society Foundations' work in the Middle East and North Africa seeks to promote democratic governance and to protect human rights.

HRB: Middle East and North Africa - American University

The Human Rights Brief's Middle East and North Africa section provides scholarship related to human rights developments across the MENA region. Brief ...

Middle East & North Africa | ICJ - International Commission of Jurists

The MENA programme advocates for the inclusion of human rights standards in the legal frameworks of the MENA region, including through the end of the abusive ...

National human rights institutions: A reason for hope in the Middle ...

Eighteen national human rights institutions (NHRIs) operate in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Some of them have been at work since ...

Human rights in the Middle East - Wikipedia

Human rights in the Middle East have been shaped by the legal and political development of international human rights law after the Second World War, ...

Human rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Review of 2019 ...

Governments across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) displayed a chilling determination to crush protests with ruthless force and trample over the rights ...

North Africa & Middle East - International Federation for Human Rights

For decades, the people of North Africa and Middle East have, for the most of them, been confronted to authoritarian regimes that violated their fundamental ...

Who we are - MENA Rights Group

MENA Rights Group is a Geneva-based legal advocacy NGO defending and promoting fundamental rights and freedoms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ...

Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa

We found that although there are discrepancies between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, it is ...

Introduction to Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa

This seminar will introduce students to practical and legal questions at the intersection of international human rights law and human rights advocacy in the ...

Middle East and North Africa - ARTICLE 19

Many countries in the region lack legal protection for human rights and the rule of law is undermined by a lack of independent judiciaries. The 2011 Arab Spring ...