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Diaspora & Exile
Regional & Diaspora
Working with MENA diasporas to document transnational repression, support defenders in exile, and ensure exiled voices remain part of the public record at home.
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Our position on Diaspora & Exile
We call on host states to recognize and counter transnational repression against MENA defenders in exile, to protect their right to political activity abroad, and to refuse cooperation with authoritarian governments seeking to silence them across borders.
— 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.
Jan 2026
LEGAL & POLITICAL ANALYSIS
Feb 2021
STATEMENTS
Jan 2021
REPORTS
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 Special Procedures
Communications on transnational repression
EU and host states
Advocacy on defender protection abroad
Coalition work
With diaspora networks and host-country NGOs
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.
Defender cases we are documenting in Diaspora & Exile. Curated profiles appear here as consent is given; until then, our published record speaks for the work.
Legal & Political Analysis
How Access Pathways Reshape the Public Sphere in the Diaspora… Unwritten Rules that Redistribute Legitimacy Within Activism in Exile
Jan 30, 2026
Statements
23 Human Rights organizations call for empowering MENA diaspora activists, placing them at the heart of the discourse for change
Feb 3, 2021
Reports
MENA Diaspora Paving Road to Justice: What Is Strategic Litigation and Why It Matters
Jan 25, 2021
Studies
New study: MENA Diaspora Engagement: The Change Mantra
Dec 15, 2020Publications
Reports, statements, and analyses.
How Access Pathways Reshape the Public Sphere in the Diaspora… Unwritten Rules that Redistribute Legitimacy Within Activism in Exile
23 Human Rights organizations call for empowering MENA diaspora activists, placing them at the heart of the discourse for change
MENA Diaspora Paving Road to Justice: What Is Strategic Litigation and Why It Matters
New study: MENA Diaspora Engagement: The Change Mantra
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