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Qatar: Unfair Sentences Against 4 Activists Signals Worrying Freedoms Conditions
Saturday, 14 May 2022, 5:35 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – A Qatari court has issued unfair life sentences against dissidents for their participation in peaceful protests calling for the abolition of the Shura Council law in August 2021, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said today in a statement expressing ... More >>
The Party Responsible For Killing Palestinian Journalist Must Be Held Accountable
Thursday, 12 May 2022, 6:14 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – Palestinian journalist and Al-Jazeera correspondent, Shirin Abu Akleh, was killed Wednesday morning during the Israeli army's storming of Jenin camp, northern West Bank, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement expressing utter condemnation. ... More >>
Tunisia: Refugees Expelled From Accommodation Centres, UN Suspends Aid
Wednesday, 27 April 2022, 5:47 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – Tunisian authorities and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees must work to find a just and dignified solution to the plight of more than 250 refugees and asylum-seekers, including about 60 children, who have been stuck in the country ... More >>
Denmark’s Exclusive Clinics For Ukrainians Is Another Discriminatory Milestone
Tuesday, 26 April 2022, 7:30 pm | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva - New medical clinics to cure Ukrainian migrants better and faster are opening in Denmark in stark contrast to the government’s recent discriminatory and unparalleled policies against other non-white refugees, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor warned in ... More >>
Lebanon: Investigate Migrant Boat Capsizing Incident Off Tripoli Coast
Monday, 25 April 2022, 5:57 pm | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – A boat carrying 75 migrants and asylum seekers has capsized off the coast of Tripoli, northern Lebanon, resulting in the death and loss of a number of them. The Lebanese authorities should open an urgent and independent investigation into ... More >>
Migrant Drownings In The Mediterranean Continue: Disgraceful Moral Failure By Govts Of Countries Of Origin, Destination
Tuesday, 19 April 2022, 5:42 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – The continued indifference towards the increasing loss of life resulting from the sinking of migrant and asylum seekers’ boats in the Mediterranean reflects a catastrophic moral failure of all parties involved, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights ... More >>
Ukraine’s Detention Of Dozens Of Migrants During War Is Inhumane, Unjustifiable
Sunday, 17 April 2022, 6:40 pm | Euro Med Monitor
Zhuravychi – Black and brown migrants still trapped in an immigration detention centre in Ukraine with no possibility of release are at grave risk of being attacked due to officials’ negligence, warned Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor in a statement ... More >>
Israel Killed Five Times As Many Palestinians In 2022 Than It Killed In The Same Period In 2021
Saturday, 16 April 2022, 6:13 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva - Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said that Israeli forces have significantly escalated the killing and repression of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the past several days, following a green light from the political officials ... More >>
Saudi Arabia: Arrest Campaign Against Judges Raises Multi-directional Concerns
Saturday, 16 April 2022, 6:10 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – The Saudi Arabian authorities have launched an arrest campaign that affected several judges working in the Court of First Instance, the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court in the Kingdom, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement expressing ... More >>
Syria: 8,000 IDPs In Rukban Camp Need Urgent Humanitarian Intervention
Saturday, 9 April 2022, 5:42 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – All concerned parties should take urgent action to provide relief support to the displaced Syrians in the al-Rukban camp on Syria's southern border with Jordan as the humanitarian crisis intensifies with the depletion of basic materials, Euro-Med ... More >>
Euro-Med Monitor Hosts Webinar On Double Standards At EU Borders
Friday, 8 April 2022, 5:45 am | Euro Med Monitor
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor hosted an important and timely webinar on Monday to discuss human displacement and racial discrimination, to affirm the humanity and dignity of all asylum seekers pursuing equal rights, and to advocate for the provision ... More >>
Killing 4 Children In Syrian Regime Bombardment May Amount To War Crime
Thursday, 7 April 2022, 5:57 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – The relevant United Nations bodies and the international community share a large part of the responsibility for the Syrian regime's continued human rights violations, including the recent killing of four children in the Idlib countryside ... More >>
Euro-Med Monitor's We Are Not Numbers Project Celebrates Graduation Of New Batch Of Writers
Wednesday, 6 April 2022, 5:55 am | Euro Med Monitor
On March 31, 2022, We Are Not Numbers held a graduation party in Gaza. The project, which Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor established in 2015, aims to tell the stories behind the numbers of dead and injured on the news. The project celebrated the graduation ... More >>
To Make Way For Ukrainian Refugees, France Is Throwing Dozens Of Non-European Youths Out Of Shelter
Tuesday, 5 April 2022, 5:27 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva - We are immensely concerned by reports about two shelters in Essonne and Pantin, France removing their non-European residents to make way for Ukrainian refugees, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement today. Such policies are discriminatory, ... More >>
Bahrain: Punitive Measures Against Detainee Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja May Amount To Slow Killing
Monday, 4 April 2022, 6:35 pm | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – The situation of Bahraini prisoner of conscience Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja has dramatically worsened since the prison administration imposed a series of punitive measures against him, including denying him contact with his family last week, Euro-Med ... More >>
Tunisia: Journalists Receive Threats For Covering Political Crisis Events
Sunday, 3 April 2022, 5:44 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – Tunisian security forces have begun to tighten the screws on journalistic work in the country, and journalists are more afraid than ever of being subjected to arbitrary measures for practicing their legitimate work, Euro-Med Human Rights ... More >>
Euro-Med Monitor To HRC: EU Technical Support To Libyan Coast Guard Must Not Be Used To Violate Migrants’ Rights
Saturday, 2 April 2022, 6:25 am | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – Libyan Coastguard should use the technical support and capacity building provided by European countries to support human rights, rather than to violate the rights of at-risk groups, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a joint statement ... More >>
Tunisia: Dissolving Parliament Violates Constitution, Further Complicates Existing Crisis
Friday, 1 April 2022, 7:24 pm | Euro Med Monitor
Press release regarding Tunisian President Kais Saied's dissolution of parliament on the evening of Wednesday, 30 March 2022 Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor views with great concern the decision of Tunisian President Kais Saied to dissolve the country’s ... More >>
'We've To Hide Who We're': Euro-Med Monitor's Report Documents Targeting Of Journalists By De Facto Sudanese Authorities
Thursday, 31 March 2022, 8:12 pm | Euro Med Monitor
De facto authorities in Sudan appear to be deliberately targeting journalists and media outlets operating in the country following the military coup on 25 October, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said Wednesday in a statement. In a report titled “We ... More >>
Sudan: De-facto Authority's Arbitrary Decisions Threaten Public Universities
Thursday, 31 March 2022, 7:52 pm | Euro Med Monitor
Geneva – Sudan’s leader of the Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant-General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, has decided to dissolve the boards of trustees of public universities and appoint 30 new directors and their deputies, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said ... More >>