
Algerian Universal Periodic Review: how to address the current human rights crisis?
Press release ahead of the Algerian Universal Periodic Review: how to address the current human rights crisis?
Press release ahead of the Algerian Universal Periodic Review: how to address the current human rights crisis?
EuroMed Rights, Amnesty International, ICJ MENA and the Cairo Institure for Human Rights Studies invite you to a webinar on March 27 from 11am to 12.30pm CET.
Brussels, 31 August 2022 On 24 August 2022, Kaddour Chouicha, a prominent human rights defender, was detained at Oran airport with his wife and interrogated by the police for two hours about the reason for his travel, his destination and his links with UN human rights mechanisms.
On the 8th anniversary of entry into force of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, colloquially known as the Istanbul Convention, EuroMed Rights interviewed women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights defenders on both shores of the Mediterranean, to find out why the Convention remains an essential tool to … Continued
38 Algerian, regional and international organisations launch a campaign to denounce the Algerian authorities’ stifling of dissenting voices and independent civil society.
29 March The undersigned organisations strongly condemn the deportation by Spain of Algerian activist Mohamed Benhalima, in the evening of 24 March 2022, despite the risks of torture and serious human rights violations he faces in Algeria, and therefore in blatant violation of Spain’s international obligations on non-refoulement.
In recent years, feminicide has become a thorny issue attracting the attention of the Algerian civil society as a propelling emergency. According to Féminicides Algérie, an initiative launched by two Algerian female activists, feminicide cases have already reached nine in 2022, in less than three months.
Joint statement of 21 Algerian, European and international organisations on the third anniversary of the pro-democracy protest movement “Hirak”.
Ahead of the Global Day of Struggle against Deaths at Borders on 6 February 2022, EuroMed Rights joins 125+ organisations in the CommemorAction Day to denounce the number of people who died, went missing or disappeared at borders while trying to reach Europe. These deaths are a direct consequence and responsibility of the EU’s and … Continued
Early 2022 in Algeria: in a country which has witnessed a wave of sweeping protests in the past three years, human rights and public freedoms are increasingly deteriorating. Individuals, political parties and non-profit organisations engaging in acts of opposition to the regime keep being threatened with arbitrary arrest, detention or dissolution.