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Press release
On Human Rights Day 2025: Civic Space in the Middle East and North Africa under Systematic and Sustained Pressure
Beirut – 10 December 2025 On Human Rights Day 2025, the region faces a reality in which freedom of expression, peaceful protest, community organising, and work in digital spaces are subjected to escalating security and legal pressure in most Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human […]
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Press release
Syria | One Year Since the Fall of the Assad Regime: The Transition Cannot Be Consolidated without Truth, Justice, Security Sector Reform, and Protection of Civic Space
Beirut – 8 December 2025 One year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on 8 December 2024, which ended family rule that had lasted for more than five decades and a devastating war of nearly fourteen years that killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions of Syrians, HuMENA, as a regional organisation dedicated to […]
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News item
Call for Trainer | Geneva Advocacy for WHRDs & LGBTQI+ Defenders
1. Background HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement is a regional, non-profit organisation working to defend and expand civic space, support human rights defenders, and promote fundamental freedoms across the MENA region and in exile. HuMENA focuses in particular on the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, and on the protection […]
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News item
Call for Tenders | Lead Developer / Civic-Tech Team: Civic Space Watchdog (AI-Assisted MVP)
Location: Remote, with preference for overlap with Europe / MENA time zones Contract type: Consultancy / Service contract Deadline for submissions: 10 January 2026 Background HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement is a regional, non-profit organisation working to defend and expand civic space, support human rights defenders, and advance fundamental freedoms across the […]
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Joint statement
Algeria | Human rights organisations and international trade union federations call for the immediate release of unionist and human rights defender Ali Mammeri
The undersigned human rights organisations and trade unions call on the Algerian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Algerian trade unionist Ali Mammeri, rescind his arbitrary 15-year prison sentence handed down on 29 October 2025, and open an independent, impartial and effective investigation into his allegations of torture and enforced disappearance, with a view to […]
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Letter
Egypt | African Commission Should Act to Protect Rights… Government and Commissioner’s Reports Exclude Key Violations
(Beirut, November 20, 2025) – The African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights should act decisively to address the dire, protracted human rights crisis in Egypt following its review of the situation in the country, 22 organizations said today. The commission has found Egypt in breach of numerous articles of the African Charter on Human […]
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Letter
Bahrain | UN Committee against Torture must call out the absence of accountability for grave human rights violations
On 18-19 November 2025, the UN Committee against Torture will review the Government of Bahrain (GoB)’s compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which it ratified in 1998. The Committee will examine the Government’s fourth periodic report at its 83rd session and will later issue recommendations addressed […]
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Joint statement
From Pledges to Implementation at COP30 (Belém, Brazil): Environmental and Climate Accountability, Equitable Loss and Damage Financing, and a Just Transition that Upholds Rights, Nature, and Biodiversity
Coinciding with the opening of the climate conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, the undersigned organizations affirm the need to move from general recommendations to measurable, accountable executive decisions. The continued international slowdown in addressing climate change will lead to a systemic human collapse and will devastate local communities, especially the most vulnerable groups. Accordingly, the undersigned […]
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Joint statement
Punishment by Proxy in Egypt: Families of Exiled Journalists, Activists and Human Rights Defenders Held Hostage by the Authorities
The undersigned organizations express their deep concern over the escalating pattern of “punishment by proxy” employed by the Egyptian authorities, which has only intensified in recent months. This years-long practice involves targeting relatives inside Egypt of activists, writers, and dissidents living abroad through raids, arrests, and enforced disappearances, in an attempt to pressure or punish […]
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Report
Silence by Force: Systematic Houthis Violations Against Human Rights Defenders in Yemen
At a glance: Civic space, arbitrary detention, press freedom | For policymakers, UN mechanisms, donors, and independent media “This report turns documented testimonies into a roadmap for accountability and protection, so that the silence of victims becomes the exception, not the rule.” “Silence by Force: Systematic Houthi Violations Against Human Rights Defenders in Yemen” offers a […]
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Joint statement
Egypt | Rights Groups Condemn the Arbitrary Referral of Exiled Academic Taqadum Al-Khatib to Trial and Call for an End to Transnational Repression
The undersigned organizations express their condemnation of the continued persecution and harassment of Egyptian researcher and academic Dr. Taqadum Al-Khatib, who has been living in exile in Germany, following a new arbitrary in absentia decision by the Egyptian authorities to refer him, along with 168 others, to criminal trial in Case No. 29/2025 […]
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Joint statement
Egypt | Systematic Exclusion of Opposition Candidates from Parliamentary Elections After Seizing Control of the Senate.. The “State List” Runs Uncontested in the House of Representatives Elections
Law and Democracy Support Foundation (LDSF) and HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement condemn the systematic political exclusion of opposition forces in Egypt, and the deliberate denial of the right of opposition and independent candidates to participate in parliamentary elections. The organizations further denounce the Egyptian authorities’ continued closure of the public sphere and […]
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