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Mashreq · Levant
Documenting violations against Palestinians, supporting defenders, and advancing accountability through international mechanisms.
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Our position on Palestine
We call for accountability for grave violations against Palestinians, an end to the targeting and criminalization of Palestinian human rights defenders and organizations, and the protection of fundamental freedoms in the occupied territory.
— HuMENA
The Region, Connected
No country in MENA stands alone.
This country sits at the centre of the threads HuMENA follows — across borders where defenders flee, refugees move, and accountability converges.
Signature
Where our work concentrates here.
Five strategic areas — Civic Space, Defenders, Digital Rights, Governance, Diaspora. Bar height shows the depth of HuMENA's coverage in that area for this country.
Civic Space
Defending freedoms of expression, association, and peaceful assembly.
Defenders
Protection support and case advocacy for defenders at risk.
Digital Rights
Surveillance accountability and digital safety for civil society.
Governance
Fair-trial monitoring, judicial independence, and inclusive governance.
Diaspora
Cross-border protection and amplification of exiled voices.
Chronicle
A working record of our interventions.
Statements, reports, advocacy moments, defender cases. Chronological. Growing.
Mar 2026
STATEMENTS
Dec 2025
PRESS RELEASES
Sep 2025
JOINT STATEMENTS
Aug 2025
JOINT STATEMENTS
Aug 2025
PRESS RELEASES
Jul 2025
LEGAL & POLITICAL ANALYSIS
Jun 2025
JOINT STATEMENTS
May 2025
JOINT STATEMENTS
Oct 2024
JOINT STATEMENTS
Jul 2024
LEGAL & POLITICAL ANALYSIS
May 2024
JOINT STATEMENTS
Apr 2024
PRESS RELEASES
Nov 2023
JOINT STATEMENTS
Oct 2023
JOINT STATEMENTS
Oct 2023
PRESS RELEASES
Dec 2022
JOINT STATEMENTS
Jul 2020
JOINT STATEMENTS
Jun 2020
JOINT STATEMENTS
May 2020
JOINT STATEMENTS
At the international level
Where this work meets the institutions.
HuMENA carries documentation into the mechanisms with the most leverage — UN bodies, EU institutions, and joint civil-society coalitions.
UN HRC
Joint statements and submissions
ICJ / ICC
Civil-society follow-up of legal proceedings
EU institutions
Briefings on civic space and defenders
Defenders
The people behind the work.
HuMENA stands with human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, and activists. Where their identities can be public, we credit them. Where they cannot, we protect them.
In forced exile
Salah Hamouri
Human rights lawyer representing Palestinian clients; advocate for detainee rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Franco-Palestinian human rights lawyer detained without charge in Al-Moskobiya since March 2022 under administrative detention, facing revocation of his Jerusalem residency and…
On trialShatha Odeh Abu Fannouneh
Director of the Health Work Committees, an organization delivering health services to Palestinians in remote areas of the West Bank.
Director of a Palestinian health organization, arrested at her home in Ramallah in July 2021 and held in Israeli prisons under charges…
Publications
Reports, statements, and analyses.
Tunisia | Prosecution of “Sumud Flotilla” Members Marks a Dangerous Escalation in the Criminalization of Solidarity with Gaza
On Human Rights Day 2025: Civic Space in the Middle East and North Africa under Systematic and Sustained Pressure
38 CSOs Condemn US Sanctions on leading Palestinian Human Rights Organisations
Call to Withdraw from “Counter-Terrorism” Summit in Israel Amid Genocide in Gaza
HuMENA: Israel’s Targeting of Journalists in Gaza Is a War Crime and a Crime Against Humanity in the Context of Systematic Genocide and Starvation
What Happened to Tal’at? A Feminist Uprising in Palestine and Its Legacy Five Years Later
Gaza: HuMENA, RSF, CPJ, and over 130 media outlets call for opening the Strip to foreign journalists and protecting Palestinian reporters
Joint Statement by Humanitarian, Development, and Human Rights Organizations in Lebanon: From South to North: Ongoing Violations Must End — Ceasefire Commitments and IHL Obligations Must Be Respected
More than 110 Organizations Call for US Senate to Block Arms Sales to Israel
Timeline of Peaceful Assemblies in Lebanon: Scattered Victories and Building an Opposition Movement
Joint Statement: Lebanon must end practices of refoulement and torture
Sudan: UN Security Council must take urgent action to protect civilians
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