The Launch of the Arab Alliance for Digital Rights
The Arab Alliance for Digital Rights (AADR) sets in motion its work to promote and defend the digital rights and freedoms of internet users across the Arabic-speaking countries. The Alliance…
UNAMI and the UN Human Rights Office: “Human Rights in the Administration of Justice in Iraq: legal conditions and procedural safeguards to prevent torture”
GENEVA (3 August 2021) – Iraq’s legal framework to prevent ill-treatment, developed over several years, now needs to be translated into effective measures to tackle torture in detention centres and…
MENA Surveillance Coalition demands an end to the sale of surveillance technology to the region’s autocratic governments
26-July-2021 We, the undersigned human rights organizations, call for an immediate halt to the use, sale and transfer of surveillance technology to autocratic oppressive governments across the Middle East and…
Eight international and local organizations direct an urgent statement addressed to the governments of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region ahead of the International Day for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(Beirut, 09 December 2020) – Eight organisations released the following statement today calling on the Iraqi government to investigate the detention of activists and others since the start of the…