Please watch the Alternative Human Rights Expo 4 to support women human rights defenders
Update: Watch the event video in English on YouTube here! The Gulf Centre for Human rights (GCHR), with the support of 27 partners held the online event,
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Hisham Kassem
On 14 May 2025, the Cairo Economic Misdemeanour Court sentenced prominent publisher and political dissident Hisham Kassem in absentia to six months in prison with
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The undersigned organizations unequivocally condemn the verdict issued in absentia on 14 May 2025 by the Cairo Economic Misdemeanor Court, sentencing prominent
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Rania Al-Assal
Rania Al-Assal is an Egyptian journalist and human rights activist known for her outspoken criticism of Saudi Arabia's military actions in Yemen and Israel's occupation
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Hossam Bahgat
When the notorious Case 173 ended in Egypt last year, local human rights defenders (HRDs) hoped it might mean the end of more than a decade targeting human rights
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When the notorious Case 173 ended in Egypt last year, local human rights defenders (HRDs) hoped it might mean the end of more than a decade targeting human
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UK Prime Minister should urge Egypt’s President to free Alaa Abd El-Fattah, whose mother Laila Soueif’s life is at risk
Update: On 21 May 2025, 32 NGOs including the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), wrote a letter urging UK PM Keir Starmer to tell Egyptian President Al-Sisi to Free
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Urgent appeal to end the enforced disappearance of poet Abdulrahman Yusuf Al-Qaradawi and calling for his release
To: Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the President of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Abu Dhabi Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al
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Call to stop hosting Conference of Parties (COP) annual climate summits in authoritarian countries
Open letter to the secretariat for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Bonn, Germany 13 August 2024 Re: Call to stop hosting Conference of
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