Yemeni businessman Abdullah Ali Abdulhafidh ABDELWAHAB remains detained at Abu Dhabi’s federal prison, known as Al-Sadr, in conditions that contravene international human rights standards. His contact with his family is extremely limited: when he is allowed to make a phone call, it never lasts more than one minute, deepening the anguish and distress of his relatives. 

We, the international human rights organizations listed below, express our deep concern regarding the detention of Egyptian citizen Ali Mahmoud Abdel-Wanis in Nigeria and the increasing risk of his forced extradition to Egypt. We are preparing to submit a complaint to the United Nations Special Procedures to request their intervention to prevent the extradition of Ali Mahmoud Abdel-Wanis. We also urge the Nigerian authorities to immediately suspend any extradition measures, given that Mr.

Joint statement on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, 30 August.

On the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Arab and international human rights organizations express their deep concern over the persistence and spread of this scourge in several Arab countries, making the region one of the world’s epicenters of this practice. 

We, the undersigned human rights organizations, express our deep indignation and profound outrage at the heinous crime perpetrated on August 25, 2025, by the Israeli occupation, whose airstrikes targeted the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, resulting in the death of dozens of civilians, including five journalists carrying out their professional and humanitarian duty of conveying the truth and documenting violations. 

According to media and human rights sources, the journalists killed are: 

Alkarama brought the cases of Lakhdar Guellil (Algeria) and Mohamed Hajib (Morocco) before the United Nations Committee Against Torture. The Committee officially recognised the two men as victims of torture. 

The International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief is observed today, 22 August, pursuant to Resolution 73/296 adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 28 May 2019. 

On 11 December 2008, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution proclaiming 19 August of each year as “World Humanitarian Day”, “to further raise public awareness of humanitarian assistance activities worldwide and the importance of international cooperation in this regard, to pay tribute to all humanitarian workers as well as UN personnel and associated individuals who work for the humanitarian cause, and to commemorate those who lost their lives while carrying out their missions.”&nbs

In pursuit of a better life, Youssef Al Arfi, a young Syrian national, went missing in conflict-torn Libya. 

Like many Syrians escaping war and instability, he had hoped to find safety in Europe but was forced to take dangerous migration routes due to the continuing insecurity in his home country. 

We, the undersigned human rights organizations, strongly condemn the heinous crime committed by the Israeli occupation on the evening of Sunday, August 10, 2025. This was the premeditated assassination of the Al Jazeera news team in the Gaza Strip, which claimed the lives of journalist Anas Al-Sharif and his colleagues Mohammed Qreiqa, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Al-Aiwa, and Mohammed Noufal, and wounded journalist Mohammed Sobeh, following a direct airstrike targeting the journalists’ tent set up in front of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. 

The undersigned international legal and human rights organizations express their deep outrage and categorical rejection of the recent statements made by the U.S. Envoy to the Middle East, Mr. Steve Whitkoff, in which he denied the existence of famine in the Gaza Strip. 

Such remarks blatantly ignore the well-documented realities on the ground and the numerous international reports confirming an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe that threatens the lives of over two million Palestinians.