UN calls for the departure of mercenaries and related contractors from Libya in preparation for peace and elections 

02/08/2021

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: August 1, 2021 UN experts have called on all mercenaries and private contractors associated with […]

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South Sudan: UN concerned of alarming wave of extrajudicial executions in Warrap State

01/08/2021

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 29 July 2021 The Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has expressed grave concern at the wave […]

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After a complaint by the Committee for Justice, UN calls for the release of Egyptian activists and an end to their prolonged detention

30/07/2021

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 15 July 2021 The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, […]

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UN concerned about detention and torture of an Algerian activist for filming police assaults on protesters

30/07/2021

News briefing Translated and Edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 26 July 2021 UN experts have issued a memorandum on the case of Algerian activist, […]

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UN concerned about the killing of a human rights defender and the conviction of another human rights defender in Sudan because of their human rights work 

29/07/2021

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 27 July 2021 UN experts have sent a UN memorandum to the Sudanese government regarding the killing of […]

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UN concerned about the continued detention and conviction of 20 human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia

29/07/2021

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 25 July 2021 United Nations human rights experts have expressed their concerns to Saudi authorities […]

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Bachelet: Revelations regarding the use of spyware to surveil journalists and human rights defenders are extremely alarming

29/07/2021

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, stressed that the revelations that Pegasus, an Israeli spyware, was used to spy on journalists, human rights […]

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Endless Emergency: CFJ analytical paper discusses effects of the state of emergency on human rights in Egypt

28/07/2021

The state of emergency has become the dominant feature in Egypt under the various ruling regimes since the end of the nineteenth century until now. […]

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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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