May 2, 2023 | Advocacy, News
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) continue their sustained assault on human rights and freedoms, including targeting human rights activists, enacting repressive laws, and using the criminal justice system as a tool to eliminate the human rights movement. These policies have led to the closure of civic space, severe restrictions on freedom of expression, both online and offline, and the criminalisation of peaceful dissent.
For more than 10 years, UAE authorities have been unjustly detaining at least 60 Emirati human rights defenders, civil society activists, and political dissidents who were arrested in 2012 because of their demands for reform and democracy or their affiliation with the Reform and Social Guidance Association (al-Islah). Some from this group, commonly known as the “UAE 94” because of the number of defendants in their mass trial, were subjected to enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment. They were sentenced to between 7 and 15 years in prison during a trial in 2013 that failed to meet minimum fair trial standards.
Apr 17, 2023 | Advocacy, News
Statement on the implementation of the Yazidi Survivors Law: NGOs and experts raise concerns over requirement for survivors to file criminal complaints to receive reparation
Apr 13, 2023 | Advocacy, News
The statement is available in Arabic here.
“Civil society organisations dismayed by inadequate Human Rights Council Libya resolution despite worsening situation”
On 4 April, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted resolution 52/L.33 on “Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in Libya” that fails to establish a mechanism to follow-up on the work of the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission (FFM). The 52nd session of the HRC marked the end of the FFM’s mandate.
Apr 3, 2023 | Advocacy, Human Rights Council, News, Statements, Work with the UN
Oral Statement of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) at the Interactive Dialogue with the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya
Mar 29, 2023 | Advocacy, Human Rights Council, News, Statements, Work with the UN
United Nations Human Rights Council, 52nd Regular Session, General Debate under Agenda Item 7: Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories
Israel’s war crimes and other unlawful acts must end.
Mar 26, 2023 | Advocacy, Human Rights Council, News, Statements, Work with the UN
Oral Statement of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) at the adoption of Tunisia’s UPR outcomes under agenda item 6
