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)

We value your opinion! Please send us your feedback on result relevance and user friendliness of our e-library at information@euromedrights.net

Types of publication

Themes

Countries

Tags

17 Jun 2020
For equal access to human rights, we must close the digital divide!
In recent years, broadband roll-out in the MENA region increased steeply. Mobile penetration and home internet subscriptions are definitely on the rise. However, digital inclusion remains scarce and discrepancies are high within the region. This is particularly true for less educated persons and the elderly, as well as women who are 9% less likely than men to own a mobile phone and 21% less likely to use mobile internet. In the EU, while 75% of all citizens are … Continued
2 Jun 2020
Still no social safety nets for informal workers
Informal workers – mostly less educated and young people – face insecure working conditions, unstable revenues and do not have access to social security systems. This makes them particularly vulnerable, even more so amid the current public health crisis. In the MENA region, two thirds of all employment are considered to be informal, as opposed … Continued
- COVID19 Newsletter
- Economic & Social Rights
19 May 2020
COVID-19: a wake-up call for economic and social rights!
In only a few weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore what activists, social workers, carers, human rights defenders, trade unionists and many others have long denounced: stalled upward mobility; degradation of essential services such as adequate health care and social security; and a steep increase in inequalities. In other words, the COVID-19 … Continued
- COVID19 Newsletter
- Economic & Social Rights
7 Apr 2020
Health, human rights organisations : Israel must respect its obligations
In the face of potential COVID-19 outbreak in the Gaza Strip, Israel is obliged to take measures to save lives, permitting the entry of medical equipment and supplies, to meet patients’ needs With over 250 identified COVID-19 Palestinian patients in the West Bank and potentially dozens in the Gaza Strip we, the undersigned organisations, express … Continued
20 Feb 2020
World Day of Social Justice: a break in 364 days of social injustice
A longer opinion piece reflecting this statement was published in Danish newspaper Politiken (link under paywall and in Danish only). Courtesy translations in English and French are also available below: Oped World Day of Social Justice (English version) Oped Journée Mondiale pour la Justice Sociale (version française) Statement All around the Mediterranean – in Algeria, Lebanon, Egypt … Continued
30 Aug 2019
More than 100 Organisations Call for the Release of the UN Database of Businesses Engaged in Activities with Israeli Settlements
On 27 August 2019, 103 local, regional and international organizations called on the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Madam Michelle Bachelet, to release the UN database of businesses engaged in activities related to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (hereinafter the Database). Read letter
- Economic & Social Rights
- Israel / OPT
19 Nov 2018
REMINDER: Majalat, the first ever EU-South Mediterranean forum with civil society in lead to be launched tomorrow in Brussels
Press Release Brussels, 19 November 2018 Representatives from over 150 civil society organisations, the majority of which coming from the South of the Mediterranean region, will gather in Brussels tomorrow and Wednesday for the First Majalat Civil Society Forum in order to debate four regional themes: Good Governance; Security and Countering Violence; Migration; Economic … Continued
10 Oct 2018
Law on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in Tunisia: A Historic step in Achieving Equality
Press Release Tunis, 10 October 2018 The Assembly of People’s Representatives adopted yesterday, Tuesday 9 October 2018, the Organic Law on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in Tunisia. The purpose of this law is to protect people against all violations and forms of discrimination, in accordance with the principles set out in … Continued
27 Jun 2018
Morocco: Prison is not an answer to seekers of social justice
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
3 Oct 2017
Morocco: Deterioration of the prison conditions of the political prisoners of the Hirak
Tuesday 3/10/2017 – For the past two weeks, many political prisoners of the protest movement of the Rif (Hirak) have been conducting a hunger strike to denounce the arbitrary nature of their trial and their prison conditions. EuroMed Rights calls on the Moroccan authorities to free all individuals detained following the events that occurred in … Continued