Regional (cross-border)

Regional & Diaspora

Joint statements, research and advocacy on issues that cross MENA borders, from civic space and digital rights to the protection of defenders.

Our position on Regional (cross-border)

We call on governments across the region to stop criminalising peaceful expression, protest and civil society work, to end transnational repression, and to release detained human rights defenders.

HuMENA

Areas of work

What we work on across the region.

Civic Space & Freedoms

LatestLevels of Disappearance: Between Disappearance and Concealment

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Protection of Defenders

Latest38 Global Civil Society Organizations file joint brief in US lawsuit challenging legality of Trump’s ICC sanctions

All publications

Digital Rights & Civic Tech

LatestPublic Sphere Safety Pocket Handbook

All publications

Inclusive Governance & Justice

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

All publications

Diaspora & Exile Engagement

LatestHuMENA Announcing the “Activism in Exile (2019-2024)” Impact Report

All publications

Chronicle

HuMENA's work in Regional

Our statements, letters and reports on regional and cross-border issues, newest first.

Oct 2026

JOINT STATEMENTS

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

Sep 2026

JOINT STATEMENTS

38 Global Civil Society Organizations file joint brief in US lawsuit challenging legality of Trump’s ICC sanctions

Sep 2026

ANALYSIS

Levels of Disappearance: Between Disappearance and Concealment

Aug 2026

JOINT STATEMENTS

Families of the disappeared, organizations in MENA sound the alarm over crackdown on families amid continued crimes

Aug 2026

STATEMENTS

Lebanon Abolishes the Death Penalty: HuMENA Calls on Countries Across the Region to Move from Moratorium to Abolition

Jun 2026

GUIDE

Public Sphere Safety Pocket Handbook

At the international level

Where this work meets the institutions.

UN HRC

Joint regional statements

EU MENA dialogue

Civil-society briefings

Joint coalitions

With regional NGOs

Defenders

Cases we follow.

Human rights defenders, journalists and lawyers whose cases across the region we follow. Some people we document are not named here, for their safety.

Our publications on defenders.