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.
The Arab Palestinian minority in Israel held a general strike in protest against the Prawer Plan which threatens to displace up to 70,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel from their homes and lands in the Naqab/Negev desert.
Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period 11 – 17 July 2013
EMHRN reports lethal use of force, appalling numbers of injuries and criminalisation of legitimate professional activities by Turkish authorities.
Stop criminalising peaceful protest in Turkey! Read More »
The EMHRN’s mission to Ankara expressed its concerns following the second hearing of the trial against its Executive Committee member M. Osman İşçi and 71 trade-unionists.
Turkey Trade unionists and human rights defenders tried as alleged terrorists Read More »
EMHRN member, human rights defender and trade unionist M. Osman İşçi was arrested in Ankara one year ago and detained along with another 27 trade unionists facing proceedings for allegedly supporting a terrorist organization.
Observation of the trial of Osman İşçi, human rights defender and trade-unionist Read More »
On the eve of the meeting between Catherine Ashton and Jose Manuel Barroso with Ali Laarayedh, the FIDH and the EMHRN are voicing their concerns about the persistence and even increases in violations of human rights.
While the police continued to violently crackdown on peaceful demonstrations in Istambul, a fourth person died in the protests and over 50 lawyers have been arrested while protesting in an Istanbul courthouse.
The EMHRN and the ENGP welcome all initiatives aimed at strengthening the role of women in society, protecting and promoting women’s rights and women’s equal participation with men in political, economic and cultural life.
Memorandum in view of the Third ministerial meeting of the Union for the Mediterranean Read More »
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and the Human Rights Association (IHD) express their utmost concern over the repression of the social movement currently unfolding in Turkey.
Freedom of Assembly violated in Turkey: the unacceptable repressive spiral Read More »
The EMHRN and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the FIDH and the OMCT, express their most serious concern about alarming restrictions of civil society work in Egypt.
Statement on the situation in Egypt Read More »
