MENA Rights
MENA Rights Defenders Call on the UAE to Disclose the Whereabouts and Release Prominent Rights Activist Ahmed Mansoor (Monday 20 March 2017) – MENA Rights Defenders received information today that UAE human rights advocate Ahmed Mansoor, winner of 2015 Laureate Martin Ennals Award and member of Human Rights Watch’s MENA Advisory Board, was detained…
On the first week of July 2012, a meeting was held in which top UAE officials were contemplating international law related strategies to confront Iran’s continued occupation of the three UAE islands. Few academics and legal scholars were invited to help brain out what options maybe available to flesh such a strategy. Among the few…
On eve of 16 March, I rushed to studio to take part in a live TV program dedicated to the 7th anniversary of the “Arab Human Rights Day”. Being very transparent and honest about the fact that I hardly remembered this occasion, I have taken the liberty to discuss failure to protect basic rights in…