This Monday 29 May, President Sisi approved a new law regulating the work of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) which will severely restrict their activities. EuroMed Rights strongly condemns the ratification of […]
ALERT/EGYPT: New Law Harshly Restricts NGOs’ activities Read More »
EuroMed Rights, ARCI and Front Line Defenders witnessed first-hand surveillance and harassment of Egyptian human rights defenders (HRDs) at a human rights workshop in Rome, Italy. Two persons alleging to
Extreme Concern about the Harassment of Egyptian Human Rights Defenders in Italy Read More »
Press release On 20-21 May, EuroMed Rights organised a workshop in Rome about opportunities for cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean region and how this affects the human rights situation in Egypt,
Rome workshop on human rights and cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean region Read More »
EuroMed Rights welcomes the acquittal of child rights defender Aya Hegazy and her co-defendants on Sunday 16 April and urges the Egyptian authorities to release them as soon as possible.
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Prominent journalist and researcher Ismail al-Iskandarani has spent 500 days behind bars without being convicted of any offence. Iskandarani, one of the very few journalists that used to cover human
EGYPT: 500 days of pre-trial detention for journalist Ismail al-Iskandarani Read More »
Brussels/Copenhagen/Paris/Tunis, 10 April 2017 EuroMed Rights strongly condemns the terrorist attacks perpetrated in Egypt by the terrorist group “Islamic State” at the Coptic churches of Tanta and Alexandria on Sunday
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This Thursday 23 March, Aya Hegazy, a dual US-Egyptian citizen and founder of the Belady Foundation, together with six co-defendants, including her husband Mohammed Hassenein, should have known their fate.
ALERT – EGYPT: Belady Case, Verdict Postponed Read More »
From 27 February to 24 March 2017, the 34th session of the Human Rights Council of the UN is being held in Geneva. On this occasion, EuroMed Rights, World Organisation
EGYPT: Open Letter to the Member States of Human Rights Council Read More »
Different frameworks, Similar shortcomings As part of our campaign on the Istanbul Convention #STOPViolenceAgainstWomen, for International Women’s Day EuroMed Rights wants to bring attention to the situation of violence against
International Women’s Day: Combating VAW in the Euro-med region Read More »
24 February 2017 Dr Angela Merkel Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Willy-Brandt-Straße 1 10557 Berlin Subject: Your visit to Cairo, 2-3 March 2017, amidst clampdown on human rights
Letter to Merkel ahead of visit to Cairo Read More »
