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Arab Coalition’s Blind Retaliatory Raid In Yemen Shows The Ugliness Of Impunity
Monday, 17 February 2020, 8:37 am | Euro-Med Monitor
Geneva - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights condemned an Arab coalition’s air raid that resulted in the killing and wounding of dozens of civilians in Yemen on Saturday, in violation of international humanitarian law. An ... More >>
Spain should end detention of hundreds of migrants
Friday, 7 February 2020, 9:12 am | Euro-Med Monitor
Geneva - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights monitor has expressed its grave concern over the detention of hundreds of immigrants of different nationalities – including women and children – by the Spanish authorities after arriving in Melilla city ... More >>
Peace plan strips Palestinians of their rights
Friday, 31 January 2020, 8:52 am | Euro-Med Monitor
GENEVA - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor followed the US President Donald Trump's announcement of a plan to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict entitled "Peace for Prosperity" which was celebrated by Israel and rejected by the ... More >>
EU Sanctions Against Human Rights Abusers Sorely Needed
Friday, 17 January 2020, 3:27 pm | Euro-Med Monitor
Geneva – The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor commends the EU Parliament for passing a resolution that calls to impose sanctions on human rights abusers, and calls on the EU Commission to urgently expedite duly deliberations to create ... More >>
Rights Report: Ethiopian Asylum Seekers’ Gateway to Hell
Wednesday, 15 January 2020, 9:59 am | Euro-Med Monitor
Geneva - A report published by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and SAM for Human Rights and Liberties revealed ten patterns of grave violations practiced against African migrants in illegal detention camps in Yemen. More >>
“Violations Until Last Hour of the Year"
Monday, 6 January 2020, 11:11 am | Euro-Med Monitor
Geneva – A report published by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor showed an escalation in violations by the Israeli authorities in Jerusalem in December 2019, approved by the highest Israeli political level, and with American support and international ... More >>
Daring to kill and an absent justice: Iraq Reports
Monday, 23 December 2019, 2:55 am | Euro-Med Monitor
Geneva - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor urged the Iraqi authorities to open a comprehensive investigation into all the killings, kidnappings and torture Iraq has witnessed since the protests broke out last October 1 and to ensure it is ... More >>
Euro-Med Monitor Calls on Palestinian Victims
Saturday, 21 December 2019, 11:38 am | Euro-Med Monitor
Euro-Med Monitor Calls on Palestinian Victims to Prepare to Assist ICC Prosecutor in Criminal Investigation GENEVA - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor welcomed today's announcement by the International Criminal Court's Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, ... More >>
Euro-Med Discusses Gulf’s Human Rights Situation at EU
Friday, 13 December 2019, 8:22 am | Euro-Med Monitor
Brussels - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor discussed, with the Vice-Chair of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with the Arabian Peninsula (DARP), Mark Tarabella, the human rights conditions and restrictions on freedom of opinion ... More >>
Tunisian Authorities must meet protesters’ demands
Friday, 6 December 2019, 8:10 am | Euro-Med Monitor
Geneva –Tunisian authorities must respect the right to peaceful demonstration, meet the protesters demands, and refrain from dealing violently with the protests that erupted this week, following the suicide of a young man after he did not receive ... More >>
New arrests of prominent activists and media in Saudi Arabia
Tuesday, 26 November 2019, 8:39 am | Euro-Med Monitor
Geneva - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said on Monday that the Saudi authorities have arrested a number of peaceful activists, including reformist Fouad al-Farhan, in a stark contrast of the government's sweeping reforms in the last two ... More >>
Stop bloodshed against peaceful protestors in Iraq
Tuesday, 26 November 2019, 8:34 am | Euro-Med Monitor
Geneva - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has sent letters to the European Union and the French and German governments, urging them to exert pressure on the Iraqi government to stop the use of lethal force against ongoing popular protests, ... More >>
Euro-Med warns of reprisals in Algeria
Friday, 22 November 2019, 8:31 am | Euro-Med Monitor
Geneva–The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that the Algerian authorities work hard to hold presidential elections against the will of large segments of the Algerian society, who took to the streets aspiring to establish a democratic system based ... More >>
Monitor Condemns US Announcement on Israeli Settlements
Wednesday, 20 November 2019, 8:51 am | Euro-Med Monitor
Last night, the United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, announced that the US no longer considers Israeli settlements in the Occupied West Bank to be inconsistent with international law. More >>
Concerns About Conditions of Irish Direct Provision Centres
Saturday, 16 November 2019, 12:18 pm | Euro-Med Monitor
Euro-Med Monitor Seriously Concerns About Inhumane Conditions of Irish Direct Provision Centres The Euro-Med Monitor expresses its serious concern over the alarming conditions of Irish refugee centres, which according to experts akin to prison-like conditions. More >>
ICC should open investigation into attack on migrants centre
Friday, 8 November 2019, 8:30 am | Euro-Med Monitor
GENEVA - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor called on the United Nation Security Council (UNSC) to take all necessary measures to ensure that those involved in the attack on a migrant detention center in Libya are prosecuted, with new evidence ... More >>
Euro-Med welcomes call of UN Working Group
Sunday, 3 November 2019, 11:52 am | Euro-Med Monitor
Euro-Med welcomes call of UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to free al-Labadi More >>
Sentencing of Israeli soldier opens door to more violations
Thursday, 31 October 2019, 8:53 am | Euro-Med Monitor
An Israeli soldier who killed an unarmed Palestinian teenager near the Gaza perimeter fence was sentenced yesterday to a month of community service. Othman Rami Helles, aged 15, was killed by an IDF sharpshooter, who shot Othman in the torso, on the ... More >>
Euro-Med addresses UN to stop digital rights violations
Sunday, 27 October 2019, 9:51 am | Euro-Med Monitor
Geneva - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor sent a letter to the United Nations to express deep concern at recent measures advanced by the Palestinian Authority that restrict freedom of expression and represent a worrying precedent in violating ... More >>
Lebanese security services should respect demonstrators
Saturday, 19 October 2019, 12:14 pm | Euro-Med Monitor
Geneva - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor urged the Lebanese security services not to resort to repression and lethal force and respect the demonstrators’ right to peaceful assembly and allow them to express their views, which are guaranteed ... More >>