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FACEBOOK ADMINISTRATION TO TAKE FURTHER MEASURES TO LIMIT THE SPREAD OF HATE SPEECH AGAINST THE LGBTQI+ COMMUNITY IN THE MENA REGION

August 10, 2020 0Comments 0Reactions

PDF البيان الصحفي باللغة العربية. إضغط هنا The signatory organizations and movements continue to cooperate in combating hate speech targeting members of the LGBTIQ+ community in the MENA region. We are very concerned about the consequences of this hate speech, which was exposed in a report entitled “Hate Speech Spreads like Wildfire” issued today by a number of…

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MENA Network for Countering Hate Speech welcomes the Recommendations of Facebook’s Review Report

July 13, 2020 0Comments 0Reactions

MENA Network for Countering Hate Speech welcomes the recommendations of the Facebook own civil rights review report, and stresses the importance of taking them into consideration, especially those related to stopping hate speech in general, and to the destructive hate speech practiced by heads of states and governments in particular for the great impact they…

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Egypt: End Reprisals, Harassment and Threats Against Civil Society Leader Mostafa Fouad

June 30, 2020 0Comments 0Reactions

The undersigned civil society organisations call on Egyptian authorities to immediately end their harassment of Egyptian activist and Deputy Director of HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement, Mostafa Fouad. To: Mary Lawler, Special Rapporteur on the Freedom on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, and Clément Voule, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Association and…

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Yemen: Over 150 NGOs appeal for death sentences of four journalists to be overturned

May 12, 2020 0Comments 0Reactions

Organisations which support human rights, press freedom and journalists are calling on United Nations mechanisms and member states to help save the lives of four Yemeni journalists who were sentenced to death in April 2020 in the capital Sana’a on charges of “spying” and “spreading false news.” Of the six other journalists in the same case whom the…

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Call for urgent Action: Yemen, overturn the death sentences of four journalists

May 7, 2020 0Comments 0Reactions

Take action to support this call by adding your signature at the link below Organisations which support human rights, press freedom and journalists are calling on the United Nations and allies of Yemen to help save the lives of four journalists who were sentenced to death in April 2020 in the capital Sana’a on charges of spying…

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Partnership with Columbia University

February 22, 2020 0Comments 0Reactions

We are pleased and honored to announce our new partnership with “Columbia Global Freedom of Expression”, an initiative by Columbia University that seeks to advance understanding of the international and national norms and institutions that best protect the free flow of information and expression in an inter-connected global community with major common challenges to address.…