HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement

What we work on

HuMENA advances human rights and civic engagement across the Middle East and North Africa. We work on these issues through research and documentation, advocacy, capacity building and protection.

Civic Space & Freedoms

Defending the right to assemble, speak, and organize.

Protection of Defenders

Standing with those who carry the work.

Digital Rights & Civic Tech

Securing freedoms in the digital layer.

A protester films a demonstration on her phone, Tyre, Lebanon, 2019

Inclusive Governance & Justice

Accountable institutions, rooted in the people they serve.

Diaspora & Exile Engagement

Carrying voices across borders.

How we work

HuMENA documents human rights violations across the Middle East and North Africa, brings them before the bodies that can act on them, and supports the defenders who are at risk.

Research and documentation

Advocacy

Capacity building

Protection

How we work, in full

Resources

Egypt | Rights Groups Urge an End to Denial and Demand Reform on Children’s Rights

Rights groups followed the review of Egypt’s periodic report before the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.

Urgent Call for Action: States Must Act Now to Protect the International Criminal Court from Unlawful US Attacks

More than 120 organisations from over 60 countries condemn the United States’ decision to impose unlawful sanctions on the International Criminal Court.

Tunisia | Article 24 Reform Leaves Questions of Justice Unanswered

HuMENA calls for a review of the situation of detainees and convicted people, data on the amendment’s impact and redress for previous convictions.

HuMENA condemns the reported torture of Matsada2sh journalists and calls for an independent investigation

HuMENA condemns the torture and ill treatment that journalists of the fact-checking platform Matsada2sh reported to the Supreme State Security Prosecution.