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EMHRN Statements - 2010

EMHRN Executive Committee in Beirut, 19-21 February 2010

Meeting in Beirut on 19-21 February 2010 the Executive Committee (EC) of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) welcomes the progress made by Lebanon in terms of human rights and freedoms.
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International Women's Day: Call for Action for women's rights and equal participation in Euro-Mediterranean region

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On the 8th March 2010, the centenary of International Women’s Day, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) – representing 76 human rights organisations located across the region – regrets the limited progress being made to protect and promote women’s rights and gender equality in the region....
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Ashton must visit Gaza - Call ahead of informal meeting of EU foreign ministers

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(Brussels, 4 March) The EU’s foreign ministers and its High Representative for foreign affairs must insist on their right to visit the Gaza Strip, say 17 European human rights and development organisations (1) on the eve of the informal ‘Gymnich’ meeting of EU foreign ministers in Córdoba on 5 and 6 March....
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Lebanon: Free Foreign Prisoners When Sentences End

Beirut, February 25, 2010 – Lebanon should release migrants and refugees who remain in detention despite having finished their sentences, a group of 14 Lebanese and international human rights organizations said yesterday in a letter to top officials. The letter to the president, prime minister and justice and interior ministers says there is no legal basis for continuing to detain most of these prisoners....
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Call for the Immediate Release of Saad Muhammad Ismaïl

Our organizations call for the immediate and unconditional release of Mr. Saad Muhammad Ismaïl, a 54-year-old Iraqi refugee, illegally detained in Lebanon since July 4th 2007, or 31 months. Arrested on May 4th 2007, Saad Ismaïl was sentenced on July 4th 2007 to two months of prison for a minor offense and should have been released on the very same day of his conviction. He has been detained since the end of his sentence without any legal basis....
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The Secretary General of the Lebanese Center for Human Rights is Denied Entry into Syria

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Wadih Al-Asmar, Secretary General of CLDH and Member of the Executive Committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, was planning to go to Syria yesterday (Sunday), but was denied entry by the Syrian authorities on the grounds that his name "was included in the computer as persona non grata." ...
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EMHRN

Seminar on Judicial Reform in Morocco

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The EMHRN, FIDH and CIJ organised a seminar in Morocco on January 22-23 on “Judicial Reform in Morocco”. The necessity of judicial reform in Morocco is largely agreed upon within Moroccan civil society. This necessity has been repeatedly reiterated at various royal events and again only recently at the August 20th 2009 speech. ...
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EMHRN Recommendations in view of the EU/PA Human rights Subcommittee Meeting on 26 February 2010

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The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) is concerned with the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and urges the EU to raise the below mentioned human rights concerns with the Palestinian Authority (PA) during the EU-PA Human Rights subcommittee meeting due to take place on 26 February 2010....
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Kurdish refugees in Corsica: asylum or charter flights?

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On Friday, January 22nd, a ship dropped off 140 people on the south coast of Corsica. These people were exhausted and starved. They are women and children desperately trying to escape from what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights calls “terror and misery”. These people are Kurds from Syria, fleeing one of the worst possible existences under one of the worst possible regimes. They are seeking asylum....
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Freedom of Association under Threat

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The EMHRN third report on Freedom of Association presents an overview of the situation of human rights NGOs in countries north and south of the Mediterranean in 2009. ...
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