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As usual, Arab government delegations exploit the sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council as a platform for public relations campaigns and to improve their human rights records, rather than using interactive dialogues to develop a serious vision for improving the human rights situation and ending policies of repression and intimidation. 

On 18 February 2025, Alkarama submitted a communication to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concerning the case of five Syrians who have been arbitrarily detained since their arrest on 11 December 2024, by the Benghazi Internal Security Forces. 

Social justice constitutes a fundamental pillar for the protection and promotion of human rights. By ensuring social justice, individuals are granted access to the fundamental rights necessary to live in dignity. In this regard, since its establishment, Alkarama has been committed to advocating for those engaged in the struggle for social justice within Arab societies, including trade unionists, human rights defenders, political activists, journalists, scholars, and intellectuals. 

Through its resolution 77/243, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed February 12 as the International Day for the Prevention of Violent Extremism Leading to Terrorism, with the aim of raising awareness about the threats associated with violent extremism and strengthening international cooperation in this regard. 

The undersigned Arab human rights organizations condemn US President Donald Trump’s adoption of the policy of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people and his intent to implement this policy by imposing control over the Gaza Strip by armed force. Trump summoned the King of Jordan and the President of Egypt for urgent meetings that will begin next week in Washington DC, with the aim of compelling the two countries to receive about two million new Palestinian refugees.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Ms. Mary Lawlor, expressed her deep disappointment over the continued arbitrary detention, judicial harassment, intimidation, and criminalization of human rights defenders in Algeria due to their peaceful activities under vaguely worded provisions such as "harming state security." 

In a letter addressed to the Italian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Alkarama strongly condemned the Italian authorities for allowing Osama Njeim al-Masri, head of the Judicial Police Authority in Libya and accused of crimes against humanity, to evade justice after being arrested pursuant to an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant. 

‏January 24 marks the International Day of Education, which was declared on 3 December 2018, by the United Nations General Assembly, “in celebration of the role of education for peace and development” and to recognize “education is a human right, a public good and a public responsibility.” Many events are organized on this occasion around the world.

On 28th January 2025, Egypt will undergo a review of its human rights record over the past four years under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council. 

On January 16, 2025, Alkarama submitted two cases to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID) concerning Mare Salih Mohammed Mohamed Al Arifi and Abdulrahman Khaled Abdulrahman Sulayman. Both Libyan nationals disappeared after being arrested by members of the "Stability Support Authority," a militia led by Abdel Ghani Al Kikli, also known as "Ghniwa." 

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