UN calls for end to discrimination and violence against Palestinians in Israel and against Negev Bedouins

28/07/2021

News briefing Translated and Edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 27 July 2021 A group of United Nations human rights experts have renewed their concerns about recent […]

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UN urges quickly holding Palestinian elections, calls on Israel to allow the participation of the people of East Jerusalem 

26/07/2021

News briefing: Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 26 July 2021 UN experts called on the Palestinian Authority and Israel, the occupying power, […]

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Human Rights Council appoints members of the Commission of Inquiry in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel

25/07/2021

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 25 July 2021 The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan (Fiji), […]

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International Commission of Inquiry on Syria: ‘The country remains far from a safe environment for civilians’

17/07/2021

News briefing:     Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice    Geneva, 14 July 2021    The head of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian […]

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Egypt: Prisoner hunger strikes expose the interior ministry’s propaganda

16/07/2021

A number of prisoners of conscience in Egypt have started a hunger strike in protest at the violations they are exposed to and their poor […]

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Egypt: Zyad Elelaimy and Ramy Shaath’s inclusion on the ‘Terrorist List’ is a shameful outcome of a politicized judiciary

15/07/2021

Yesterday July 14, the Court of Cassation rejected the appeals of human rights defenders Zyad Elelaimy, Ramy Shaath, and eleven others regarding their inclusion on […]

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Report on violations in Case No. 9115 of 2016 South Giza District, known in the media as the “Helwan Microbus Case”

15/07/2021

The Committee for Justice said today that as part of its Justice Watch project, it has examined the files of case No. 9115 of 2020, […]

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UN condemns UAE’s forced deportation of a former Guantanamo detainee to Russia despite the risk of torture 

14/07/2021

News briefing   Translated and Edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 12 July 2021 UN experts have expressed serious concerns about the imminent forcible return of former […]

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UN fears that the lives of two Egyptian brothers were endangered after their arrest and torture following the 2013 military coup

14/07/2021

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: July 13, 2021 UN experts have expressed their concern about the suffering of the two brothers, […]

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UN experts stress the need to stop attacks against critics and demonstrators in Ramallah and hold those responsible to account

14/07/2021

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 12 July 2021 UN human rights experts have expressed serious concerns about a number of attacks by […]

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UN Special Rapporteur: ‘Israeli settlements are a war crime’

14/07/2021

News briefing  Translated and Edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 12 July 2021 Michael Lynk, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian […]

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Interactive dialogue at the Human Rights Council with the International Commission of Inquiry in Syria, with recommendations to establish a mechanism to find missing persons

14/07/2021

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 12 July 2021 The Human Rights Council on 6 July held an interactive dialogue with the Independent International […]

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UN calls on Egypt to halt and review pending death sentences 

13/07/2021

News briefing    Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice    Geneva, 13 July 2021   United Nations human rights experts have called on the Egyptian authorities to […]

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UN condemns Israel’s repeated demolition of Palestinian Bedouin property

13/07/2021

News briefing    Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice    Geneva, 13 July 2021    The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in […]

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CFJ director: Human rights violations in the MENA region are due to lack of political will, not shortage of laws

09/07/2021

News briefing Written and translated by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 30 June 2021 The Executive Director of the Committee for Justice, Ahmed Mefreh, participated in […]

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