Libya: Group Seeks Renewal of FFM’s Mandate
A group of seven international human rights organisations has urged the United Nations Human Rights Council member states to continue to support the independent Fact-finding Mission (FFM) on Libya. The group includes the Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International (AI), and Lawyers of Justice in Libya (LFJL), and International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH). Others […]
240 NGOs Make Western Sahara Programme Call
A group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to implement a programme of technical cooperation and capacity building with the legal representative of the Polisario Front. The Polisario Front is composed largely of the indigenous nomadic inhabitants of the Western Sahara region, the Sahrawis. It was learnt […]
Healthy Environment: 850 CSOs Write UNHRC
Amnesty International has joined more than 850 civil society organisations, indigenous peoples’ groups, social movements, and local communities to call on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to recognise the universal human right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. In an open letter signed by the organisations and sent to the council, […]