‘There is no environmental justice without a free civic space’: Yasmin Omar on the destruction of green space in Egypt and COP27

30/09/2022

Amelia Smith At last year’s Climate Change Summit in Glasgow, campaigners stormed the streets in their thousands, some smearing blood over themselves, others taking off […]

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UN: Ukraine war cut funding for emergency care for victims of sexual violence in South Sudan

26/09/2022

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 25 September 2022 The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in South Sudan said […]

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Human rights organizations call on the Public Prosecutor to close the investigation into the Mada Masr journalists’ case

15/09/2022

The undersigned Egyptian human rights organizations call on the Attorney General to close Case No. 19 of 2022 (Cairo Appeal Investigations) involving four women journalists […]

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UN experts warn Sudanese authorities against targeting a women’s rights defender over her cooperation with UN mechanisms

05/09/2022

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 5 September 2022   UN experts have warned that intimidation and harassment of Sudanese human […]

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UN Fact-Finding Mission in Libya urges the parties to the conflict to stop hostilities in Tripoli and protect civilians

03/09/2022

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: September 1, 2022 The United Nations Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya urged all parties involved […]

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Egypt: UN concerned about disappearance and trial of a Yemeni citizen, amid fears of his deportation to his country

01/09/2022

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: September 1, 2022 UN experts have expressed their deep concerns about the arbitrary detention, enforced […]

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Egypt: Immediately release ten Nubians arbitrarily detained in Saudi Arabia for over two years and suspend their trial

29/08/2022

In the days before the slated 31 August sentencing of ten Egyptian Nubians detained in Saudi Arabia now for over two years, the undersigned rights […]

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Sudan: UN concerned about grave human rights violations against anti-coup protesters

28/08/2022

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 28 August 2022 UN experts have expressed concerns about allegations of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, […]

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Egypt: Death of political detainee after inhumane detention conditions

18/08/2022

Edited and translated by: Committee for Justice Geneva: August 18, 2022 On Thursday, August 18, 2022, the Committee for Justice documented the death of Imad […]

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After CFJ campaign, French citizen appears in Egypt after one year of mysterious disappearance

17/08/2022

The French citizen, Yann Bourdon, who had gone missing for nearly a year in Cairo, Egypt, reappeared on 9 August and returned to his home […]

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Bachelet denounces killing of Palestinian children in Gaza 

11/08/2022

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: August 11, 2022  The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has expressed […]

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Egypt: Military court sentences five people to death

08/08/2022

The military court in eastern Cairo on Wednesday sentenced five people to death in connection with Case No. 1 of 2021, known in the media […]

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Egypt: UN calls for an end to violations against detained human rights lawyer Youssef Mansour

08/08/2022

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: August 8, 2022 United Nations human rights experts affirm that the arrest, enforced disappearance and […]

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UN experts call for international investigation into the 2020 Beirut explosion

03/08/2022

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: August 3, 2022 UN experts affiliated with the Human Rights Council in Geneva called for […]

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UN demands release of Libyan woman detained for expressing her views

02/08/2022

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: August 2, 2022 UN experts called for the immediate release of Iftikhar Boudra, a Libyan […]

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