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Alkarama is deeply concerned at ECOSOC precedent decision favouring repressive governments

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28 Jul 2009
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26 Feb 2009
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ECOSOC: Alkarama criticizes suspension recommendation

Today the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)-Non-Governmental Organisation Committee met in New York and recommended the suspension of the Arab Commission for Human Rights (ACHR) for one year, on a request by the Algerian Permanent Mission to the UN. Algeria's complaint was based on the appearance by the ACHR's Permanent Representative at the time, Mr Mesli, at the Human Rights Council session in Geneva on 10 June 2008. Mr Mesli is also the Legal Director in Alkarama.
29 Jan 2009
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USA: Arbitrary detention of three Sudanese nationals in Guantanamo Bay camps

Alkarama for Human Rights submitted, on 29 October 2008, a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to inform them of the arbitrary detention of three Sudanese nationals in the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay. All three have meanwhile been released.

Adil Hassan Hamad Al-Muttaleb has, since 1999, worked for an Islamic charity which in particular looked after Afghan refugees in Pakistan.

31 Oct 2008
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15 Oct 2008
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The Independent : Secrets of Iraq's death chamber

Prisoners are being summarily executed in the government's high-security detention centre in Baghdad. Robert Fisk reports

Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the filthy waters of the Tigris. And still the revelations come.

The Independent has learnt that secret executions are being carried out in the prisons run by Nouri al-Maliki's "democratic" government.

08 Oct 2008
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Time magazine - Six Years Inside Gitmo: A Journalist's Tale

Both John McCain and Barack Obama have said they would shut the U.S. military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where about 250 men remain behind bars — some in their eighth year of captivity. But neither presidential candidate has outlined when and how they plan to do it. One man ready to offer them some free advice on the problem of Guantánamo is Sami Al-Hajj, an al-Jazeera TV cameraman recently freed, without facing charges, after six and a half years at Guantánamo.
30 Sep 2008
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Emirates : Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council

The third session of the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council will start on December 1, 2008. This session will review the United Arab Emirates. In this framework, Alkarama presented a contribution on July 14, 2008.

United Arab Emirates

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

  Third session from 1 – 15 December 2008

18 Sep 2008
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Protest against a nomination to the UN Human Rights Committee.

Abdel Wahab Hani, on behalf of the NGO Alkarama (Dignity) and the Arab Commission of Human Rights, protested against the nomination of an Egyptian diplomat, Ahmed Amin Fathalla as member of the UN Human Rights Committee during a meeting last week between the NGO and the president of the Council, the Nigerian, Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi.

The Committee is made up of independent people who are responsible for monitoring the application of the international Pact on civil and political rights, one of the two pillars of the UN. M.

15 Sep 2008
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Press : A Geneva NGO upsets Arab countries

9 September 08 - Over the past four years, the Geneva based NGO, Alkarama has filed thousands of complaints to the UN regarding human rights violations by Arab states.
10 Sep 2008
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