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Good News On Euro-Med Monitor's Joint Efforts Towards Ceasing Human Rights Violations – February 2021
Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 6:34 am | Euro Med Monitor
We will always remember 2020 with the emergence of the Coronavirus pandemic and the violations, mostly in the Middle East and North Africa region, that accompanied it. In 2021, the world hopes to witness not only an end to the pandemic but also ... More >>
Euro-Med Monitor Welcomes MEPs' Letter Against Israel's 'de Facto Annexation'
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 7:08 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor welcomed today a letter signed by some 450 European parliamentarians addressed to EU foreign ministers calling for pressuring Israel to stop the "de facto annexation" of the West Bank. The ... More >>
Israeli Police's Crackdown On Umm Al-Fahm Protesters Gives A Green Light For Crime
Sunday, 28 February 2021, 4:44 pm | Euro Med Monitor
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor strongly condemns the Israeli Police's suppression of demonstrations in Umm al-Fahm protesting the escalation of violence and crime in the city. Many protesters were injured while others were arrested. The ... More >>
Morocco: Euro-Med Monitor Condemns The Ill-Treatment Of Hirak Rif Detainees
Friday, 26 February 2021, 8:16 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor expresses deep concern over the deteriorating health condition of several Hirak Rif movement detainees after going on a hunger strike to protest the inhumane treatment they received in prison. ... More >>
Iraqi Kurdistan: Authorities Step Up Intimidation With Harsh Sentences Against 5 Activists And Journalists
Friday, 26 February 2021, 7:44 am | Euro Med Monitor
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor strongly condemned the imprisonment sentences against five journalists and civil activists on charges related to their journalistic activities and exercising their right to freedom of opinion and expression. ... More >>
Euro-Med Monitor And 33 Yemeni Orgs Send An Urgent Appeal To EU On Marib Attack Risks
Friday, 19 February 2021, 6:30 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and 33 other Yemeni human rights organizations have sent an urgent letter to the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, calling for an urgent intervention ... More >>
Asylum Seekers Hunger Strike Shows UK’s Disregard To Their Mental And Physical Health
Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 7:02 am | Euro Med Monitor
The hunger strike undertaken by a group of asylum seekers in the UK to protest inadequate food supplies and lengthy asylum procedures should raise attention towards the UK government’s little regard for their physical and mental health, Euro-Med Human ... More >>
Euro-Med Monitor & SAM’s New Report: Houthis Recruited More Than 10,000 Children In Yemen
Saturday, 13 February 2021, 6:32 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and the SAM for Rights and Liberties said in a report released today that the Houthis have forcibly recruited 10,300 children in Yemen since 2014, warning of dangerous consequences failing to ... More >>
Germany’s Violation Of Asylum Seekers’ Right To Privacy Is Strongly Condemnable
Friday, 12 February 2021, 6:28 am | Euro Med Monitor
For 5 years now, German migration authorities have routinely violated the right to privacy of tens of thousands of asylum seekers and refugees by inspecting their mobile phones and subjecting them to second-class data protection, often without ... More >>
Protesters Unlawfully Detained And Tortured In Iraqi Kurdistan
Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 5:55 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – After widespread protests that erupted in August 2020 in oil-rich region of Iraqi Kurdistan, due to skyrocketing poverty and unemployment rates, there have been continued arrests and detention of activists and unionists. Euro-Mediterranean ... More >>
Malta’s Brutality Against Asylum Seekers Necessitate EU Commission Intervention
Monday, 8 February 2021, 6:37 am | Euro Med Monitor
The gravely inhumane treatment of migrants and asylum seekers in Malta calls for immediate intervention from the EU Commission, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement today. There’s mounting evidence that large numbers of asylum seekers ... More >>
Activist Murder Means Lebanon Reached Serious Level Of Assassinations Intimidation
Friday, 5 February 2021, 8:07 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor strongly condemns Lebanese the assassination of researcher and political activist Luqman Salim at dawn today, in Al-Zahrani region, southern Lebanon. Communication with Salim, director of the ... More >>
23 Human Rights Orgs Call For Empowering MENA Diaspora Activists, Placing Them At The Heart Of The Discourse For Change
Thursday, 4 February 2021, 6:59 am | Euro Med Monitor
Twenty three human rights organizations, including Euro-Med, HuMena, and Innovation for Change (I4C)-MENA Hub, published a petition that calls for sparking the untapped potentials of MENA diaspora activists; by empowering and placing them at the heart ... More >>
Six Members Of The Swiss National Council Urge UAE To Review Law 7
Wednesday, 3 February 2021, 8:00 am | Euro Med Monitor
Six members of the National Council of Switzerland have signed a petition launched by the Geneva-based Euro-Med Monitor calling on the Government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to abide by its own demostic and international obligations and review ... More >>
Good News On Euro-Med Monitor's Joint Efforts Towards Ceasing Human Rights Violations – January 2021
Tuesday, 2 February 2021, 6:08 pm | Euro Med Monitor
We are proud to bring about real change through concrete steps to bring justice to victims of human rights violations in collaboration with other organizations around the world. After decades of armed conflicts and wars, the Middle East and North Africa ... More >>
Euro-Med Monitor: European Parliament Frontex Inquiry Is Major Step Towards Accountability
Saturday, 30 January 2021, 7:57 pm | Euro Med Monitor
We strongly commend today’s decision by MEPs from the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee to set up a Working Group, to look into allegations around Frontex’s role in the illegal pushbacks of sea migrants and asylum seekers, ... More >>
UN's Report On Asylum Seekers' Drowning Commendable, Similar Investigation Should Be Opened Into 2014 Incident
Friday, 29 January 2021, 6:25 pm | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – A United Nations Commission on Human Rights report held Italy responsible for failing to protect more than 200 asylum seekers, including 60 minors, who drowned after their boat crashed off the Italian coast in October 2013. The Euro-Mediterranean ... More >>
Rome Court Decision Against Italy’s Illegal Migrant Pushbacks Is A Significant Step
Wednesday, 27 January 2021, 6:13 am | Euro Med Monitor
We warmly commend the decision of the Court of Rome, deeming the pushbacks of asylum seekers and migrants on the Italian-Slovenian border illegal; condemning the Italian Ministry of the Interior and acknowledging the inhuman and degrading treatment migrants ... More >>
Ahead Of EU Commission Inquiry, Report Slams EU’s Best-Funded Agency For Repeatedly Violating International And EU Laws
Friday, 15 January 2021, 6:59 am | Euro Med Monitor
14 January 2021 Today, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor published a new report that documents and analyses the involvement of Frontex in Greece's illegal pushbacks of migrants and asylum seekers to Turkish waters and the various violations of International ... More >>
Banning The Screening Of Director Bakri's Film Exposes The Israeli Judiciary’s Involvement In Covering Up Violations
Thursday, 14 January 2021, 7:02 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – An Israeli district court issued a condemnable decision banning the screening of the film "Jenin, Jenin”, which sheds light on the Israeli army's violations in Jenin camp in the northern West Bank during its “Operation Defensive Shield” ... More >>
