The Regional Coalition of Women Human Rights Defenders in the Middle East and North Africa is extremely concerned about the recent development and escalation against Mozn Hassan, our advisor, and Azza Soliman,…
This research paper aims to highlight the situation of WHRDs in Syria. The paper will briefly look into the changing situation of WHRDs before the conflict and analyze the variety of issues…
Women’s rights defender, writer and blogger Ghada Jamsheer remains in jail in Bahrain serving a combined ten-month sentence for exercising her right to free expression on Twitter. On 7 November 2016, Jamsheer…
The regional coalition for women human rights defenders (WHRDs) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is outraged by the arrest of both Kurdish WHRDs Ayla Akat, spokeswoman of the Free…
The WHRD coalition in MENA launches the #SheDefends campaign at a time when darkness is falling in the region. We are experiencing an upsurge of violence against women, specifically, against those who…
July 21, 2016 His Excellency Abdel Fattah al-Sisi President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Abedine Palace, Cairo Arab Republic of Egypt Fax: +202 23901998 Dear Mr. President, We as women human…
After a prominent women’s rights defender was sentenced to a further year in prison, we the undersigned international human rights and feminist organisations call on the Bahraini government to stop sentencing women…