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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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Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.A new document to include to the United Nations report on Egyptian authorities’ violations Solving the crisis of ‘Regini’ and similar cases by taking radical steps to stop the crime of enforced disappearance 157 cases in July (77.8% of monitored violations) 140 cases in August (71% of […]
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.Geneva 1 October 2018 The undersigned organizations denounce the ruling on September 24, 2018 to uphold the death sentences of 20 defendants in connection with the 2013 attack on the Kerdasa police station. Egypt’s use of the capital punishment has been escalating at an unprecedented rate, with […]
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.Committee for Justice Press Release Geneva 17 September 2018 Committee for Justice (CFJ) said that the annual report issued by the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances documented the continuity of such crime of enforced disappearance in Egypt against activists, human rights defenders as […]
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.Joint Statement The undersigned independent Egyptian human rights organizations express our consternation over U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to release $195 million in suspended military aid to Egypt. Pompeo’s predecessor Rex Tillerson had withheld these funds, in part over human rights concerns. Secretary Pompeo has […]
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.Joint Statement The undersigned organizations unequivocally condemn the mass death sentence issued in Case no. 34150/2015, commonly known as the Rabaa Dispersal Case. The undersigned reject the trial proceedings, which exemplify the degraded standards of fairness, impartiality and independence that define Egypt’s dysfunctional judiciary. We demand an […]
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.Geneva 11 August 2018 The undersigned rights organizations condemn Amal Fathy’s referral to trial in case no. 7991/2018. Fathy is the wife of human rights defender Mohamed Lotfy, the director of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF). The Maadi Misdemeanor Court held the first hearing […]