Press Release 17 July 2018 EuroMed Rights deeply regrets the Egyptian Parliament’s approval yesterday of a controversial law that will allow the President to grant immunity to high-ranking military officials of his choice who served in the transitional period of suspension of the Constitution in June 2013 until the Parliament convened in January 2016. Article … Continued
Press Release 13 July 2018 EuroMed Rights, together with 22 International, European, Israeli and Palestinian human rights and development organisations, sent a joint letter yesterday to call on the European Union to urge Israel to immediately and unconditionally lift the closure and blockade of the Gaza Strip. This comes against the background of Israel’s … Continued
Joint statement by EuroMed Rights and CIHRS Brussels, 11 July 2018 Today, the French Human Rights Ambassador, François Croquette, met with Bahey Eldin Hassan, Egyptian human rights defender and director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) as well as Michel Tubiana, Honorary President of EuroMed Rights. The position of the French government towards … Continued
Dear Members of the European Parliament, EuroMed Rights, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Front Line Defenders and Reporters Without Borders urge you to raise publicly the case of internationally acclaimed Egyptian blogger and journalist Wael Abbas in parliamentary questions to the EEAS and by writing to the Egyptian Embassy in Brussels. The Egyptian authorities … Continued
Press Release Brussels, 4 July 2018 Despite strong warnings by the European Data Protection Supervisor, the European Parliament, at its plenary session in Strasbourg, has voted today on the controversial proposal on personal data exchange between Europol and eight third countries – Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Tunisia and Israel. EuroMed Rights expresses its … Continued
This report describes the main elements of EuroMed Rights’ activities since its last General Assembly in Brussels in June 2015. It mainly addresses the members of the Network, but also interested observers from civil society, public institutions and donors. The purpose is to give a narrative account to EuroMed Rights’ members about the implementation by … Continued
On 23 and 24 June 2018, more than a hundred representatives from 80 organisations working on Human Rights on the two shores of the Mediterranean gathered in Brussels to attend the 11th General Assembly of EuroMed Rights. Read our Press Release on our General Assembly and the one on the election of Wadih Al-Asmar, EuroMed Rights’ … Continued
Press Release The heavy sentences pronounced by the Criminal Chamber of Court of Appeal of Casablanca towards several young nationals from the Rif region (“rifains”) cannot constitute a response to the movement that took place in the North of Morocco and is still taking place today. By transforming social claims into a “plot aiming at … Continued
More than 80 human rights organisations gathered at the 11th EuroMed Rights General Assembly in Brussels where Wadih Al-Asmar from the Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) was elected President for a three-year mandate. Commenting after the election, Wadih Al-Asmar said: The promotion of active citizenship and dialogue between the two shores of the Mediterranean … Continued
Over the course of a year, the number of people who sought asylum in one of the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU) has halved: 650,000 in 2017 compared with 1,206,500 in 2016, and as a downward trend is confirmed for the first months of 2018. Does this mean that the world has … Continued
