As humanitarian needs in Afghanistan continue to escalate, we appeal to the EU to place protection at the centre of its response. We are disappointed by the absence of leadership at the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 31 August and Interior Ministers’ continued focus on preventing people from arriving in the EU, instead of … Continued
JOINT STATEMENT – 03/06/2021 On 16 May 2021, a boat left Lebanon with 56 migrants on board (39 men, seven women and ten children) and was located off the coast of Cyprus, approximately 16 nautical miles south of Cyprus’ Cape Greco. Cypriot authorities checked the documents of the people on board and then denied entry … Continued
EuroMed Rights is appalled at the thousands of Palestinian victims of Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip over the last seven days.
Statement following the violences which occurred in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood and Al-Aqsa mosque in East-Jerusalem.
President Erdogan’s decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention plays at domestic and international level. The EU needs to go beyond “regrets and incomprehension”.
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
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
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.
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
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
