Category: Media Monitoring
FIDH officials with Nobel Prize
The Tunisian League for Human Rights, FIDH member organisation in Tunisia, alongside the Tunisian bar, UGTT and UTICA have been awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize. FIDH warmly welcomes this international recognition of the Quartet and the Tunisians’ essential struggle for democracy, fundamental freedoms, dignity and justice. It is an immense joy and a great […]
Emerging Powers Succeeding in Debilitating the Human Rights Council
Geneva, 2 October 2015 – Behind-the-scenes deals that promote impunity are getting the upper hand over transparent multilateral processes at the UN Human Rights Council. The adoption of a flawed resolution that turns a blind eye to crimes committed by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen is a clear illustration of this. The Council’s failure to […]
Limiting the use of veto in case of mass atrocity crimes
FIDH Statement Limiting the use of veto in case of mass atrocity crimes (New-York, 30 September 2015) FIDH an organisation representing 178 organisations worldwide expresses its support to the idea that permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) should voluntarily agree to refrain from using their veto in situations involving mass atrocity crimes. […]
Saudi Arabia: Don’t deport Sudanese journalist to Sudan
5 September 2015 – Saudi Arabian authorities should release and refrain from deporting the Sudanese journalist Waleed Aldoud Al-Mekki Al-Hussein, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP), European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights, and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) said today. […]
Syria: Finally free, Mazen Darwish must now be acquitted
Paris-Geneva, 10 August 2015 – The release today of prominent human rights defender Mazen Darwish, after three years and a half of detention, is a great relief, said the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. Despite his release, Mazen Darwish, like his colleagues Hussein Ghrer and Hani al-Zaitani, has been charged with “publicising […]
AZERBAIJAN Journalist Rasim Aliyev murdered as human rights crackdown continues in aftermath of European Games
10 August 2015 – The Sport for Rights coalition, of which FIDH and OMCT are members within the framework of the Observatory, resolutely condemns the brutal murder of Azerbaijani journalist Rasim Aliyev, who died on 9 August in a Baku hospital, after he was severely beaten on 8 August by a group of people. Rasim […]
Pakistan : Government defies EU and international law and executes presumed juvenile offender
Paris, Lahore, 4 August 2015 – In the early hours of 4 August 2015 the Pakistani authorities executed Shafqat Hussain, believed to be a juvenile offender, in defiance of international law, basic human rights, and appeals by civil society, EU and UN officials to stay his execution. “The execution of Shafqat Hussain is the latest […]
Syria: Selective application of amnesty leaves Mazen Darwish in jail
Paris-Geneva, 24 July 2015 – Granted amnesty, Hussain Ghrer and Hani Al-Zaitani were released on 17 July and 18 July 2015, respectively. Both had been arbitrarily detained since February 2012, for promoting freedom of expression and monitoring gross human rights violations committed in Syria. The Observatory welcomes their release, but expresses its extreme concern for […]
SAHR Statement on the occasion of the meeting between the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional, democratic network of human rights defenders welcomes the meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 10 July 2015. The two Prime Ministers held a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit to discuss, among other […]
Historic US Supreme Court Ruling Legalises Same-Sex Marriage across USA
In a 5 – 4 ruling delivered on 26 June 2015, the US Supreme Court determined that the right to marriage equality was protected by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. The decision in the case, Obergefell v Hodges, means that same-sex marriage is now legal in all 50 US states. Crucially, and in stark […]
