WHRDs

Opportunities and Challenges for Women Human Rights Defenders from Middle Eastern Countries

  • WHRDs
  • MENA
  • 30/01/2025

A Report on a Study by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) Download Report Highlights The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) conducted this research to

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Endless Femicides Lead to Transnational Protests & Strike

  • WHRDs
  • Egypt
  • Jordan
  • MENA
  • 26/07/2022

The influx of femicides in June 2022, committed mostly by women’s partners, sparked public outrage throughout the region by feminist groups. The murders of

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Writer Dhabia Khamis Al-Maslamani banned from traveling

  • WHRDs
  • UAE
  • 1/10/2020

Update: United Arab Emirates: On 29 September 2020, the Federal Public Prosecutor in Abu Dhabi informed writer Dhabia Khamis Al-Maslamani that she must attend an

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Reports on Women Human Rights Defenders Advocacy to free Saudi women’s human rights activists detained since May 2018

  • WHRDs
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 14/05/2020

Download Despite certain political and social reforms made since the turn of the century, the authorities in Saudi Arabia continue their decades-long clampdown on

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On International Women’s Day, GCHR honours women’s rights defenders in the Gulf and neighbouring countries

  • WHRDs
  • MENA
  • 8/03/2018

On International Women’s Day, marked annually on 08 March, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) honours Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) in the region and

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Recommendations on the Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security (WPS)

  • WHRDs
  • Iraq
  • MENA
  • 16/10/2017

This open letter, available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic, was sent to all UN Member States on behalf of 391 civil society organizations across 98 countries in

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