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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. 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 […]
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins. The undersigned independent human rights organizations call on all independent voices able to speak up freely to pressure President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to declare his commitment to complying with Egypt’s Constitution and leave office when his second and final presidential term ends in June 2022. The […]
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.The undersigned rights organizations admonish the Sudanese authorities’ use of excessive force in responding to popular protests underway since December 19, which culminated in the death and injury of dozens of people. We call on the Sudanese authorities to immediately end the use of excessive force against […]
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.(Geneva, December 12, 2018) – The United Nations should ensure an urgent and robust system-wide response to credible reports that the Egyptian authorities have attacked people who engaged with the UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, 6 human rights and other organizations said today. The UN expert […]
Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.Detention watch report: EGYPT: Enforced disappearance and medical negligence lead the violations race in Egypt during September and October. The continued disappearance of former Egyptian parliamentarian Mustafa Al-Najjar raises doubts about his fate. 232 violations were monitored during September, and 499 more in October, where Sharqiya governorate […]

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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 [...]