In December 2017, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is expected to launch a Database that lists corporate actors that have directly or indirectly enabled, facilitated …
Human rights organizations: Travel bans and asset freezes issued during judge’s illegal mandate must be revoked
Yesterday morning, November 28th, 2017, the first appeal to revoke the reassignment of investigative judge Hisham Abdel Meguid to Case 173 of 2011, known as the “Foreign Funding Case,” was …
Egypt | A year after the law’s approval by the Egyptian Parliament Rights groups: No alternative but to repeal new association law, revision pointless
Marking one year since the Egyptian Parliament’s November 2016 approval of Law 70/2017 regulating civic associations, issued by President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi in May, the undersigned organizations reiterate their rejection …
Sale of surveillance technology to Egypt: Paris Prosecutor asked to open a criminal investigation
Paris, 9 November 2017 – This morning, FIDH and the Ligue des Droits de l’Homme, with the support of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, filed a criminal complaint …
Letter to the Libyan Constitution Drafting Committee
2 November 2017 We, the undersigned human rights organizations, congratulate the committee drafting the Libyan Constitution, the latest draft of which was signed in Al Bayda on July 29, in …