The space available for civil society organisations working to promote, defend and protect human rights in the Euro-Mediterranean region has steadily declined over past three years, as has access to justice and accountability for citizens in the region.
In 2011, the Arab Spring witnessed a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions spreading across many southern Mediterranean countries. The uprisings were an expression of deep-seated resentment at […]
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Paris/Copenhagen/Brussels/Tunis, 13 november 2015– EuroMed Rights strongly condemns the near- simultaneous attacks killing more than 128 people in Paris on Friday night. The attacks, the worst in Europe since the 2004 Madrid
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Brussels, 9 November 2015 – EuroMed Rights, Front Line Defenders and the Observatory (a joint FIDH and OMCT programme) express their deep concern over Egypt’s Military Prosecution and detention of
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EuroMed Rights has sent the following letter to the British Prime Minister David Cameron, urging him to be clear ahead of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Sisi that UK/Egypt relations must depend on Egyptian authorities
Letter to the British Prime Minister ahead of Egypt’s President Sisi’s visit to the UK Read More »
On Saturday 24 October, a Cairo court of appeals confirmed that Azza Soliman, Director of the Centre for Egyptian Women’s Legal Aid (CEWLA) has been acquitted. Azza Soliman’s acquittal comes
Acquittal of Egyptian Human Rights Defender Azza Soliman Read More »
Copenhagen, October 10, 2015- EuroMed Rights strongly condemns the bomb attack in Ankara on Saturday October 10th, targeting peaceful demonstrators and leaving 97 (*) dead and hundreds more injured. This march
Fourth and Deadliest Attack against Protesters in Turkey: Accountability Now! Read More »
Release Bassel Khartabil Held Unfairly since 2012! October 7, 2015 – Syria’s authorities should immediately reveal the whereabouts of Bassel Khartabil, a software developer and defender of freedom of expression,
JOINT RELEASE (SYRIA): Disclose Whereabouts of Detained Freedom of Expression Advocate Read More »
October 6, 2015- On the third anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Syrian human rights lawyer Khalil Ma’touq and his assistant and friend Mohamed Zaza, the undersigned organisations the undersigned organisations
JOINT PRESS RELEASE (SYRIA): Release Human Rights Lawyer Khalil Ma’touq! Read More »
Ankara/ Brussels, 5 October 2015 (UPDATE)– While welcoming the release of two executives from EuroMed Rights member organisation İHD (Azad Tas and Zana Aksu) after they had been remanded in police custody, EuroMed
TURKEY: Escalating Harassment of Human Rights Defenders Must End Now! (UPDATE) Read More »
Ankara/ Brussels, 2 October 2015– EuroMed Rights is deeply dismayed to learn that executives from EuroMed Rights member organisation İHD are remanded in police custody after raids have been conducted
TURKEY: Escalating Harassment of Human Rights Defenders Must End Now! Read More »
