Lebanon Supports Key Civic Space Recommendations at the UPR, but Implementation Remains the Real Test

3 July 2026
Several recommendations supported by Lebanon reflect issues HuMENA advanced through its UPR advocacy, from freedom of expression and the protection of journalists and human rights defenders to digital rights and refugee protection. However, key recommendations on criminal defamation, military courts, Article 534, explicit protection for LGBTQI+ individuals, and Palestinian refugees’ rights to work and property…

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هيومينا ترحب بالإفراج عن شريفة الرياحي وزملائها وتطالب بوقف تجريم العمل المدني في تونس

Tunisia | HuMENA welcomes the release of Sharifa Riahi and her colleagues, but release is not enough. It is time to end the criminalisation of civil society work linked to protecting migrants and refugees.

6 January 2026
HuMENA welcomes the decision to release, with a two-year prison sentence suspended (deferred enforcement), Sharifa Riahi, Mohamed Jaouou, Ayadh Boussalmi, Imen Wardani, and Mohamed Iqbal Khaled, following the second hearing held on 5 January 2026 before the Bab Bnet Court in Tunis. The hearing began at 9:00 a.m. and continued late into the night, according…

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Bulgaria: Saudi activist at risk of deportation

Bulgaria: Saudi activist at risk of deportation

10 March 2025
Bulgarian authorities should suspend any plans to deport Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman al-Khalidi to Saudi Arabia, and should allow his resettlement to a third country, twenty organizations said today. Bulgarian authorities would violate the Bulgarian, European, and international law obligation of nonrefoulement, which bars returning someone to a country where they would risk facing torture…

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Egypt | 23 NGOS in a Joint Statement: Grave risks posed by the passing of proposed Foreign Asylum Bill… The bill contra

Egypt | 23 NGOS in a Joint Statement: Grave risks posed by the passing of proposed Foreign Asylum Bill… The bill contravenes international law and the Egyptian constitution

15 November 2024
The undersigned human rights organisations express their categorical rejection of the draft law “regulating foreigners’ asylum in Egypt”, which was recently approved by the Defence and National Security Committee of the Egyptian Parliament. This bill is expected to be discussed and voted on in the next plenary session of the House of Representatives. This is…

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HuMENA and 24 CSOs express deep concern about Ireland’s recent decision to designate Egypt , Morocco and Algeria as safe coun

HuMENA and 24 CSOs express deep concern about Ireland’s recent decision to designate Egypt , Morocco and Algeria as safe countries of origin

17 September 2024
HuMENA and 24 human rights non-governmental organizations have sent a letter to the Irish government expressing their deep concern about Ireland’s recent decision to designate Egypt, Morocco, and Algeria as safe countries of origin.   The full letter:  Brussels, 16 September 2024 Subject: The addition of Egypt, Morocco, and Algeria as safe countries of origin…

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29 NGOs Call for Immediate Halt to Unlawful Deportation of Sudanese Refugee by Egyptian Authorities

29 NGOs Call for Immediate Halt to Unlawful Deportation of Sudanese Refugee by Egyptian Authorities

18 July 2024
The undersigned organizations condemn the Egyptian authorities’ arrest and detention of Sudanese refugee and community leader Othman Hussein Yaqoub Mansour, Director of the African Vision School for Sudanese Education in 6th of October City, on Monday, July 1st, and his forced disappearance and coercion into signing a declaration of voluntary deportation from Egypt.   These…

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