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8 Oct 2020
“Like parcels to be sorted”, migrants’ and refugees’ treatment under the new EU Pact
EuroMed Rights publishes today, on the same day as the Conference of EU Ministers of Home Affairs, its detailed analysis of the new EU Pact on Asylum and Migration released last September 23rd. To sum up the more than 500 pages of documentation, the New EU Pact on Asylum and Migration dehumanises migrants and refugees, treating them like parcels to be sorted and preventing them from moving across Europe. This Pact raises several human rights concerns, some of which are highlighted below: The EU distorts the notion of solidarity. The Pact clearly aims … Continued
1 Oct 2020
Beijing +25, a bitter anniversary for women’s rights and gender equality
On the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration, EuroMed Rights calls on the UN to address the growing backlashes to gender equality in the Euro-Mediterranean region 2020 marks an important anniversary on the long path for the achievement of gender equality. Twenty-five years ago, in Beijing, the representatives of 189 governments and almost 50,000 participants … Continued
- Statement
- Women’s rights and gender justice
9 Sep 2020
Solidarity Statement For Bahey El Din Hassan
On 25 August 2020, Bahey Eldin Hassan, a prominent Egyptian human rights defender, and director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) was sentenced in absentia to fifteen years in prison by an Egyptian terrorism court.
- Egypt
- Statement
1 Sep 2020
Facing the abyss, Lebanon takes a leap forward
Since the deadly massive blast at the port of Beirut on 4 August, the “October Revolution” demonstrations against endemic corruption and political mismanagement in Lebanon, which erupted in October 2019, have continued unabated. On 13 August, the protests have been met with the Parliament’s decision to give extensive power to the military in the state … Continued
- Statement
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
Syrian refugees in Cyprus pushed back to Turkey
On 15 May 2020, the administration of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) forcibly sent 100 Syrian refugees, including unaccompanied children, to Mersin, Turkey. They have been transferred to Kilis, near the Syrian border, where they are now. Most of the 100 Syrian refugees – 56 – are children and women and girls … 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
- Economic & Social Rights
- Statement
27 Jan 2020
The Gezi trial or the systematic criminalisation of Turkish civil society
For the Turkish version, click here. The fifth hearing of the Gezi trial will resume on 28 January 2020, on the same day as the Universal Periodic Review of Turkey at the United Nations Human Rights Council. Sixteen civil society figures will be tried for “attempting to overthrow the government or partially or wholly … Continued
- Statement
- Turkey
7 Nov 2019
According to the European Court of Human Rights, all is well in the Greek hotspots
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected for the most part the request made on 16 June 2016 by 51 persons (including many minors) from Afghanistan, Syria and Palestine, who were forcibly maintained in a situation of extreme distress in the hotspot of Chios, Greece [1]. The 51 applicants, supported by our organisations, were identified … Continued
- Migration and Asylum
- Statement
21 Oct 2019
Turkey: message of solidarity to Osman İşçi
Read joint NGO Submission to the Universal Periodic Review On the occasion of our meeting of 18-20 October 2019 in Brussels, we, members of EuroMed Rights Executive Committee, want to express our deep concerns about the judicial harassment faced by our colleague and friend, Mr Osman İşçi, Secretary General of the Human Rights Association (IHD), … Continued