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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

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Egypt | 300 UN recommendations spurned by the Egyptian government, 12 demands must be urgently implemented before next month’s UPR
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.Egypt: Newly released rights report details direly declining human rights situation since 2014 Egypt’s human rights situation is at its worst since 2014, as corroborated by a newly released report by Egyptian rights organizations ahead of Egypt’s imminent Universal Periodic Review (UPR), scheduled for the 13th of […]
Egypt: Rights groups call for immediate release of protesters, political party leaders, and presidential candidates
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.UN must be invited to investigate the situation in Egypt The brutal crackdown by Egyptian state security, which in the last few days was marked by the arrests of nearly 2000 people – including peaceful demonstrators, political leaders, rights activists, journalists, and lawyers – constitutes a flagrant […]
Egypt: All are vulnerable as government plunges into frenzied quest to eliminate opposition
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.The arrests of Alaa Abdel Fattah and Mohamed al-Baker are the latest in escalating state retaliation against peaceful and lawful opposition and human rights defenders The undersigned rights organizations denounce the Egyptian government’s intensifying crackdown in the wake of last week’s protests against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. With over 2000 people […]
Biannual report of ‘Detention Watch’ in Egypt: 4,820 violations in six months, Enforced disappearance topped the list of violations, and Sharqia governorate faces documented persecution
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.65 cases of extrajudicial killings and 153 documented violations against 91 detainees Press release Committee for Justice Geneva 3 September 2019 “Another six months of systematic violations and insistence on abolishing human rights by Egyptian authorities” .. This is the conclusion of the situation across the first […]
The UN postpones its regional conference in Egypt on the crime of torture
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.Human rights organizations: Egypt should be denied hosting the conference due to its record of torture crimes Egyptian rights groups, signatories to this statement, wish to thank all parties, both Egyptian activists and international organizations for their pressure to postpone the regional conference on ““Defining and Combatting […]
Egypt: 20 Rights NGOs call on President Macron to denounce Egypt’s human rights record during the G7 meeting
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.It was a striking choice for France to invite Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to attend the 24-26 August G7 summit in Biarritz, for which the chosen theme is “the fight against inequality”. The number of Egyptians under the poverty line has clearly risen according to official Egyptian […]

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14 Oct

Egypt | 300 UN recommendations spurned by the Egyptian government, 12 demands must be urgently implemented before next month’s UPR

Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.Egypt: Newly released rights report details direly declining human rights situation [...]

12 Mar

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 [...]

11 Feb

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, [...]

28 Nov

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 [...]

15 Oct

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 [...]