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The Council of the Alkarama Foundation met yesterday following the announcement by the US Department of Treasury of its decision to qualify Dr Abd al-Rahman Omair Alnaimi, president of the Council as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist".

The Council takes note of this announcement and explores all ways and means to deal with this situation.

You can find below the current vacancies at Alkarama, as well as the profiles we look for in our interns, volunteers and "civil service" candidates (these positions are open year-round). If you are based in the Arab world, you can also volunteer to become a member of Alkarama and contribute information about individual cases of human rights violations or work with us on various projects in your country.

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Screening organized by Alkarama at Cinémas du Grütli, Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday 17 October 2013 , 7:30 pm – Free entry

It's the dirty little secret of the War on Terror: all bets are off, and almost anything goes. Drone strikes, night raids, and U.S.

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the UN Committee against Torture, the guardian of one of the most widely accepted international human rights conventions. In a campaign for universal ratification of the Convention against Torture, several leading human rights organisations now call on the remaining 42 countries to join the treaty and recognize the full competence of the Committee against Torture.

We are writing to urge you to express the UK government's grave concern in relation to human rights abuses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) when you meet the country's president, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in the course of his forthcoming state visit to the United Kingdom.