Who is CFJ?
The Committee for Justice (CFJ) is an independent association for the defense of human rights based in Geneva, Switzerland and established in 2015 by a diverse group of human rights advocates. CFJ’s mission is to defend victims of and persons vulnerable to human rights violations with focus on the Middle East and North Africa region. CFJ seeks – through observing and documentation – to present a credible picture of human rights abuses enabling the international community, CSOs and knowledge hubs to provide alternative solutions concerning the human rights situation in the region, to conduct justice for victims, obtain reparation and counter impunity for perpetrators of human rights violations.
Our Mission
The mission of the Committee for Justice is to contribute to the protection and defense of victims of human rights violations with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa region. In order to do that, CFJ collects the necessary information to present a credible picture of the human rights situation in the region. Its method consists in observing, monitoring and documenting abuses and developments in policy and practice in those countries, where there is a lack of information
Latest News
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.Egypt is hosting an Africa human rights summit meeting beginning April 24, 2019, while its government is presiding over the worst human rights crisis in the country in recent decades, 11 African, Egyptian, and international organizations said today. The 64th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on […]
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. Joint Press Statement The undersigned rights organizations call on international organizations to monitor the upcoming referendum to amend the Egyptian constitution; if approved, the amendments will grant unilateral authority to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi by expanding presidential term limits together with eliminating judicial independence[J1] […]
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.The first annual report on monitoring places of detention Committee for Justice calls on Egyptian Authorities to immediately halt all forms of committed violationsPress release Committee for Justice Geneva, 19 March 2019 Committee for Justice(CFJ) published its first annual report on monitoring violations in Egyptian places of […]
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.February 12, Geneva, February 2019, this year, Committee for Justice issues its first annual report covering 2018 under its project “Human Rights Council Monitor”, in the context of presenting the human rights situation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. The report sheds the light […]
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. The undersigned rights organizations condemn the Egyptian authorities’ latest spate of executions, with three people executed by hanging on February 13 and another three people hanged less than a week earlier on February 7. The six executions followed fundamentally flawed trials featuring confessions coerced through torture; […]
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.Press release Geneva (11 February 2019) The Egyptian Front for Human Rights, Committee for Justice and the Arab Foundation for Civil and Political Rights call on Egyptian authorities to halt the execution of further death sentences and to establish a moratorium on such punishment until a broad […]
Reports
Detention Watch 2018 Annual Report
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. The first annual report on monitoring places of detention Committee for Justice [...]
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First annual report for Human Rights council monitoring “An Eye on the Council”
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. February 12, Geneva, February 2019, this year, Committee for Justice issues [...]
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In a joint report regarding executions in Egypt. Three independent organizations call on Egyptian authorities to establish a moratorium on executions
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. Press release Geneva (11 February 2019) The Egyptian Front for Human Rights, [...]
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EGYPT: Enforced disappearance and medical negligence lead the violations race in Egypt during September and October 2018
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. Detention watch report: EGYPT: Enforced disappearance and medical negligence lead the violations [...]
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Joint Report: Civilians hastily executed without due process protections by Egyptian military courts
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. Geneva 15 October 2018 Today October 15, six independent rights organizations released [...]
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Egypt: The crisis continues .. Enforced disappearance tops the violations in places of detention in the months of July and August 2018
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. A new document to include to the United Nations report on [...]
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EGYPT DETENTION WATCH REPORT (May- June 2018)
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. Geneva 25 July 2018 Following CfJ’s reports on human rights violations against [...]
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EGYPT DETENTION WATCH REPORT (March- April 2018)
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. Geneva 22 May 2018 Following CfJ’s eight reports on human rights violations [...]
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