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Joint statement
Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia and the UAE
The undersigned organisations condemn Meta’s recent decision to restrict the Facebook and Instagram accounts of independent NGOs, researchers, and civil society figures from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This is the latest in a pattern of major technology companies, including Meta, acting as enforcement arms for repressive governments in […]
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Joint statement
As Trump visits Saudi Arabia, groups call for the kingdom to end repression of journalists
As global attention turns to U.S. President Donald Trump’s first international visit to Saudi Arabia on May 13, many journalists inside the kingdom will be unable to cover the event as they are behind bars, banned from writing, or silenced by fear of censorship. We, the undersigned organizations, call on the Saudi authorities to release […]
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Joint statement
IWD 2024: CSOs renew their call on Saudi authorities to release jailed women’s rights activists
On International Women’s Day, the undersigned organisations renew their call on Saudi Arabian authorities to release all women human rights defenders (WHRDs), women’s rights activists and their supporters who are detained in contravention of international human rights standards. The organisations further call on Saudi authorities to lift travel bans imposed on WHRDs and their relatives, […]
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Joint statement
Civil society urges BIE Member States not to vote for Saudi Arabia to host the World Expo 2030
November 21, 2023 Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) General Assembly 34, Avenue d’Iéna, 75116, France Open letter to BIE Member States: do not vote for Saudi Arabia to host World Expo 2030 We, the undersigned organisations, write to express our deep concern about Saudi Arabia’s candidacy to host the World Expo 2030. By providing […]
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Letter
HuMENA and rights groups calling on UN mechanisms to intervene to stop violations of freedom of assembly in Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia
Several human rights organizations, including HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement, have called on United Nations mechanisms to intervene to halt grave violations of the right to peaceful assembly in Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. They emphasized the need to take all necessary measures to address these violations and ensure that these countries […]
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Joint statement
Civil society concerned over Saudi Arabia’s attempt to whitewash its human rights record through the World Expo 2030
HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement, and civil society organizations calls on the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) to exclude the candidacy of Saudi Arabia as a potential host for World Expo 2030 on account of its grave and internationally documented and recognised appalling human rights record. May 16, 2023 Bureau International des Expositions […]
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Joint statement
Saudi authorities must release human rights defender Mohammed al-Qahtani and other ACPRA members who are arbitrarily detained
We, the undersigned human rights organisations, call on Saudi authorities to reveal the health condition of and immediately and unconditionally release prominent Saudi human rights defender and co-founder of the now dissolved Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA)*, Dr. Mohammed al-Qahtani, who has been detained incommunicado for six months. We also call for the […]
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