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 […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown global structural, social, economic, and humanitarian inequalities into sharp focus. Existing issues such as migrant’s rights, access to healthcare, violence against women and discrimination –
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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,
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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
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
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
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