E-library

How to use the e-library?

How to use it?

Our website is equipped with an advanced search engine facility: the e-library. Whether you are trying to locate a publication we’ve produced or looking to take part in our campaigns and support our work, then your journey starts here.

Why using it?

The e-library allows you to browse the latest Human Rights-related news we’ve produced on any given theme and country. For customised search results, you can either select the type of publication you’d like to browse (Press Release, Report, Factsheet, Core Document, …etc.), your theme of interest (gender equality, justice, etc.) or the country for which you are looking to locate information.
You can further refine your search results by combining several criteria (e.g. Report /Syria/ women rights)

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22 Jun 2020
Egypt: the campaign against Gamal Eid must stop!
EuroMed Rights, Committee for Justice, Egyptian Front for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) & World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, The Freedom Initiative, and The Egyptian Human Rights Forum strongly condemn the campaign recently launched by the Egyptian authorities against the director of the Arabic … Continued
- Egypt
- Statement
19 May 2020
COVID-19: a new Trojan Horse to step up authoritarianism in Egypt
COVID-19 has provided another excuse for the Egyptian regime to expand its powers and crack down on rights, freedoms and rule of law in the country. Meanwhile, Egypt is facing its worst human rights crisis in recent history. After a continued state of emergency dating from before the Mubarak regime was lifted in 2012, Egypt … Continued
- COVID19 Newsletter
- Egypt
30 Apr 2020
Jailed Egyptian human rights defenders in the COVID-19 firing line
Many of us are under lockdown to minimise the risk of contracting COVID-19. This is not the case for human rights defenders in pre-trial detention in Egypt. The authorities’ refusal to release them from imprisonment in unsanitary conditions is indicative of their exploitation of the pandemic in an attempt to eliminate their critics. Egyptian prisons … Continued
- COVID19 Newsletter
- Egypt
13 Mar 2020
Universal Periodic Review concludes without meaningful engagement from Egypt
Geneva, 13 March 2020 Human rights organisations regret Egypt’s lack of constructive engagement during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and denounce Egypt’s reprisals against NGOs and human rights defenders who submitted information for Egypt’s UPR. Egypt’s human rights record was reviewed in November 2019, when UN Member States presented 372 recommendations. Yesterday, at the outcome … Continued
24 Feb 2020
NGO Joint Letter to the EU on Human Rights in Egypt
EuroMed Rights, together with six other NGOs, sent on February 19, 2020 a joint letter calling for a comprehensive review of the EU’s relations with Egypt to the President of the European Council Charles Michel, the High Representative of the EU Josep Borrell and the Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi. The severe deterioration … Continued
10 Oct 2019
Egypt: EU turns a blind eye to mass arrest of peaceful protesters
Since 20 September 2019, peaceful protests against rampant corruption have been repressed with an iron fist in Egypt. According to the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, at the time of writing, over 3,300 peaceful protesters have been arrested and 117 others have been forcibly disappeared. 200 have been reported to be released on 8 … Continued
3 Oct 2019
Egypt: human rights defenders and MEP urge the EU to use megaphone diplomacy
With the Egyptian authorities’ crackdown against protesters intensifying in recent days, four Egyptian human rights defenders testified at an event today hosted in the European Parliament by MEP Hannah Neuman. Ahead of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Egypt due to take place at the United Nations Human Rights Council in November 2019, the defenders … Continued
22 Aug 2019
G7: 20 Rights NGOs call on President Macron to denounce Egypt’s human rights record
It was a striking choice for France to invite Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to attend the 24-26 August G7 summit in Biarritz, for which the chosen theme is “the fight against inequality”. The number of Egyptians under the poverty line has clearly risen according to official Egyptian 2018 statistics, while the World Bank estimates that … Continued
21 Aug 2019
UPDATE – EuroMed Rights welcomes postponement of UN anti-torture conference in Cairo
Following an outcry from human rights activists and NGOs, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has decided to postpone its regional conference on “Defining and Criminalizing Torture in Legislation in the Arab Region” due to be held on 4-5 September 2019 in Cairo. EuroMed Rights welcomes this move and is … Continued
19 Aug 2019
Open letter: EuroMed Rights will not attend UN Regional Conference on Torture in Cairo
EuroMed Rights has declined the invitation received from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to take part in the regional conference on “Defining and Criminalizing Torture in Legislation in the Arab Region” to be held on 4-5 September 2019 in Cairo, Egypt. In an open letter addressed to UN High … Continued