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The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
(October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
(October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. 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After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. 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Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Mr. Tarek lamented why the European Union is not spending adequate efforts to stop the unbearable situation in Egypt, warning of a dark future in continuation of violations against human rights in terms of impunity, forced disapprance, torture, and confiscation of basic rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Mr. Mahmoud further said that Alsisi manipulates both Muslims and Christians, making them afraid of each other; Alsisi is playing the same game in Sinai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Tarek lamented why the European Union is not spending adequate efforts to stop the unbearable situation in Egypt, warning of a dark future in continuation of violations against human rights in terms of impunity, forced disapprance, torture, and confiscation of basic rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The seminar ended wirh the contribution of the Egyptian journalist Tarek Mahmoud who pointed out that the Egyptian authorities always accuse journalists and human rights defenders of international conspiracy against Egypt. Mr. Mahmoud reviewed that 90 journalists are in prison and 12 were killed since 2011, reminding when the journalist Regeni was tortured to death, and other 5 people paid the cost and there were killed as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Mahmoud further said that Alsisi manipulates both Muslims and Christians, making them afraid of each other; Alsisi is playing the same game in Sinai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Tarek lamented why the European Union is not spending adequate efforts to stop the unbearable situation in Egypt, warning of a dark future in continuation of violations against human rights in terms of impunity, forced disapprance, torture, and confiscation of basic rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Ms. Franciosi continued to catgorically deplore all forms of abuse against journalists and human rights defenders, remembering the brutal killing of the Italian journalist Giulio Regeni who was prepareing for his PH.D assertation. She ended with calling upon the European Union to act more firmly against these practices against freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The seminar ended wirh the contribution of the Egyptian journalist Tarek Mahmoud who pointed out that the Egyptian authorities always accuse journalists and human rights defenders of international conspiracy against Egypt. Mr. Mahmoud reviewed that 90 journalists are in prison and 12 were killed since 2011, reminding when the journalist Regeni was tortured to death, and other 5 people paid the cost and there were killed as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Mahmoud further said that Alsisi manipulates both Muslims and Christians, making them afraid of each other; Alsisi is playing the same game in Sinai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Tarek lamented why the European Union is not spending adequate efforts to stop the unbearable situation in Egypt, warning of a dark future in continuation of violations against human rights in terms of impunity, forced disapprance, torture, and confiscation of basic rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Germany has increased its initial pledge to take in 150 refugees to 1,600, there are still 7,500 individuals unable to escape these deteriorating conditions, who are seriously at risk for massive covid-19 exposures. At the same time, the Guardian has reported<\/a> that two other camps set up on Lesvos specifically for vulnerable people are set to close as early as next week. Lower Saxony's interior minister Pistorius Friday criticized the unwillingness of other EU countries to take in refugees as \"shameful,\" with large EU states such as Britain refusing to take in any of the asylum seekers. With no current EU-wide standards for refugee housing, \u201cmass accommodation, whether in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, is neither humane nor is it possible to comply with infection protection or even minimal hygiene requirements,\u201d added SPD politician Aziz Bozkurt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While 85% of the world\u2019s refugees, as reported by Amnesty International, are housed in developing countries, EU states have turned their efforts to disincentivize persecuted people to seek shelter in the European Union, and establish migration cooperation with source locations regardless of human rights records. Well into five years of what is referred to as the 2015 refugee crisis, disagreements are still blocking urgent reforms to EU asylum laws, and a system of distribution throughout the region has not been established, leading to mass overcrowding at landing sites and inaccessibility to crucial resources that will continue to worsen unless priorities shift and bilateral agreements are finally reached. <\/p>\n","post_title":"In \u201cMoria 2.0,\u201d Conditions Worsen","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"in-moria-2-0-conditions-worsen","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3883","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3877,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-24 17:43:34","post_content":"\n The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for sanctions, following the unlawful killings and detainments of several prominent journalists and women\u2019s rights activists and other atrocities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020, Berlin) <\/strong> Falling on the two-year anniversary of the catapultic killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, MEPs across Europe voted to downgrade its attendance in October at the 2020 November G20 summit in Saudi Arabia to avoid legitimizing the state\u2019s humanitarian crisis and urged for sanctions, in the EU\u2019s strongest retribution against the state yet. The bill calls for the end of the abuse and torture of detained individuals, deportations, the heavily criticized kafala \u201csponsor\u201d system, and for Saudi Arabia to allow external investigations into its human rights abuses, as international NGOs are currently not allowed to operate despite its current status as a humanitarian crisis. Similarly, last February, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Saudi Arabia to immediately and unconditionally release women\u2019s rights defenders and other dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The G20 summit comes as a series of prominent international business, sports, and entertainment events hosted by Saudi Arabia, totaling an investment of $64bn in the effort to wash over the country\u2019s concurrent war crimes, and waves of violence arrests of political dissidents. This past March, Saudi Arabia began the trials of several women\u2019s rights activists in Riyadh, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah, and Nouf Abdulaziz, who were reportedly subject to torture, abuse, and sexual violence since their detainment in 2014 and 2016. Despite new laws introduced shortly thereafter permitting female driving, the activists were detained for petitioned for women\u2019s right to drive and the end of the discriminatory male guardianship program. Saudi\u2019s male guardianship program does not allow women to study, work, or domestically and internationally travel without the permission of their appointed male guardian. Guardians can file complaints for \u201cdisobedience,\u201d and the forcible return of women to their male guardian\u2019s home or imprisonment, leaving women unable to escape domestic violence. Saudi prosecutors also accused the detained activists of sharing information about women\u2019s rights in Saudi Arabia with journalists, diplomats, and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, deeming such contacts a criminal offense<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional transnational human rights abuses that have raised international concern include a multitude of reports detailing the common occurrence of migrant workers facing overwork, forced confinement, withholding of wages and food, and physical abuse through the Kafala visa sponsorship program. <\/p>\n","post_title":"EU to Boycott G20 Summit in Response to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Rampant Human Rights Abuses","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"eu-to-boycott-g20-summit-in-response-to-saudi-arabias-rampant-human-rights-abuses","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3877","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":73},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Ms. Franciosi continued to catgorically deplore all forms of abuse against journalists and human rights defenders, remembering the brutal killing of the Italian journalist Giulio Regeni who was prepareing for his PH.D assertation. She ended with calling upon the European Union to act more firmly against these practices against freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The seminar ended wirh the contribution of the Egyptian journalist Tarek Mahmoud who pointed out that the Egyptian authorities always accuse journalists and human rights defenders of international conspiracy against Egypt. Mr. Mahmoud reviewed that 90 journalists are in prison and 12 were killed since 2011, reminding when the journalist Regeni was tortured to death, and other 5 people paid the cost and there were killed as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Mahmoud further said that Alsisi manipulates both Muslims and Christians, making them afraid of each other; Alsisi is playing the same game in Sinai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Tarek lamented why the European Union is not spending adequate efforts to stop the unbearable situation in Egypt, warning of a dark future in continuation of violations against human rights in terms of impunity, forced disapprance, torture, and confiscation of basic rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the context of frredom of expression,Ms. Maria Laura Franciosi confirmed that critisims is a genuine right in the press, condemning the closure of human rights websites in Egypt, and sending defenders behind bars. Ms. Maria strongly believe that the European Union does not seem to do much against the alarming situation of freedom of expression in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Franciosi continued to catgorically deplore all forms of abuse against journalists and human rights defenders, remembering the brutal killing of the Italian journalist Giulio Regeni who was prepareing for his PH.D assertation. She ended with calling upon the European Union to act more firmly against these practices against freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The seminar ended wirh the contribution of the Egyptian journalist Tarek Mahmoud who pointed out that the Egyptian authorities always accuse journalists and human rights defenders of international conspiracy against Egypt. Mr. Mahmoud reviewed that 90 journalists are in prison and 12 were killed since 2011, reminding when the journalist Regeni was tortured to death, and other 5 people paid the cost and there were killed as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Mahmoud further said that Alsisi manipulates both Muslims and Christians, making them afraid of each other; Alsisi is playing the same game in Sinai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Tarek lamented why the European Union is not spending adequate efforts to stop the unbearable situation in Egypt, warning of a dark future in continuation of violations against human rights in terms of impunity, forced disapprance, torture, and confiscation of basic rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She also referred to preventing candidates of opposition parties from organizing those own compsignes. Piquemal asserted that the constitutional amendments in 2019 were meant to extend Alsisi's time in power, to constitutionalize the executive authority to grant the military custadionshiip on Egyptian citizens and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the context of frredom of expression,Ms. Maria Laura Franciosi confirmed that critisims is a genuine right in the press, condemning the closure of human rights websites in Egypt, and sending defenders behind bars. Ms. Maria strongly believe that the European Union does not seem to do much against the alarming situation of freedom of expression in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Franciosi continued to catgorically deplore all forms of abuse against journalists and human rights defenders, remembering the brutal killing of the Italian journalist Giulio Regeni who was prepareing for his PH.D assertation. She ended with calling upon the European Union to act more firmly against these practices against freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The seminar ended wirh the contribution of the Egyptian journalist Tarek Mahmoud who pointed out that the Egyptian authorities always accuse journalists and human rights defenders of international conspiracy against Egypt. Mr. Mahmoud reviewed that 90 journalists are in prison and 12 were killed since 2011, reminding when the journalist Regeni was tortured to death, and other 5 people paid the cost and there were killed as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Mahmoud further said that Alsisi manipulates both Muslims and Christians, making them afraid of each other; Alsisi is playing the same game in Sinai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Tarek lamented why the European Union is not spending adequate efforts to stop the unbearable situation in Egypt, warning of a dark future in continuation of violations against human rights in terms of impunity, forced disapprance, torture, and confiscation of basic rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tackling the issue of the political sphere and the public space closure in Egypt , Dr.Piquemal emphasized the rollback of democracy in Egypt which has increased and accelerated in 2018 during the president show election, in 2019 constitutional amendments, andin 2020 legislative elections which are still ongoing. All these events involved a very broad and general denial of citizenship righta to a free participation in public affairs. Added Ms. Piquemal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She also referred to preventing candidates of opposition parties from organizing those own compsignes. Piquemal asserted that the constitutional amendments in 2019 were meant to extend Alsisi's time in power, to constitutionalize the executive authority to grant the military custadionshiip on Egyptian citizens and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the context of frredom of expression,Ms. Maria Laura Franciosi confirmed that critisims is a genuine right in the press, condemning the closure of human rights websites in Egypt, and sending defenders behind bars. Ms. Maria strongly believe that the European Union does not seem to do much against the alarming situation of freedom of expression in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Franciosi continued to catgorically deplore all forms of abuse against journalists and human rights defenders, remembering the brutal killing of the Italian journalist Giulio Regeni who was prepareing for his PH.D assertation. She ended with calling upon the European Union to act more firmly against these practices against freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The seminar ended wirh the contribution of the Egyptian journalist Tarek Mahmoud who pointed out that the Egyptian authorities always accuse journalists and human rights defenders of international conspiracy against Egypt. Mr. Mahmoud reviewed that 90 journalists are in prison and 12 were killed since 2011, reminding when the journalist Regeni was tortured to death, and other 5 people paid the cost and there were killed as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Mahmoud further said that Alsisi manipulates both Muslims and Christians, making them afraid of each other; Alsisi is playing the same game in Sinai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Tarek lamented why the European Union is not spending adequate efforts to stop the unbearable situation in Egypt, warning of a dark future in continuation of violations against human rights in terms of impunity, forced disapprance, torture, and confiscation of basic rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He mentioned that Cairo is an important partner for the European Union on the economic level , on the migration issue and for regional stability, and Europe can\u2019t stay silent , dialogue must be intensified to maintain good relations with Cairo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tackling the issue of the political sphere and the public space closure in Egypt , Dr.Piquemal emphasized the rollback of democracy in Egypt which has increased and accelerated in 2018 during the president show election, in 2019 constitutional amendments, andin 2020 legislative elections which are still ongoing. All these events involved a very broad and general denial of citizenship righta to a free participation in public affairs. Added Ms. Piquemal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She also referred to preventing candidates of opposition parties from organizing those own compsignes. Piquemal asserted that the constitutional amendments in 2019 were meant to extend Alsisi's time in power, to constitutionalize the executive authority to grant the military custadionshiip on Egyptian citizens and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the context of frredom of expression,Ms. Maria Laura Franciosi confirmed that critisims is a genuine right in the press, condemning the closure of human rights websites in Egypt, and sending defenders behind bars. Ms. Maria strongly believe that the European Union does not seem to do much against the alarming situation of freedom of expression in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Franciosi continued to catgorically deplore all forms of abuse against journalists and human rights defenders, remembering the brutal killing of the Italian journalist Giulio Regeni who was prepareing for his PH.D assertation. She ended with calling upon the European Union to act more firmly against these practices against freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The seminar ended wirh the contribution of the Egyptian journalist Tarek Mahmoud who pointed out that the Egyptian authorities always accuse journalists and human rights defenders of international conspiracy against Egypt. Mr. Mahmoud reviewed that 90 journalists are in prison and 12 were killed since 2011, reminding when the journalist Regeni was tortured to death, and other 5 people paid the cost and there were killed as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Mahmoud further said that Alsisi manipulates both Muslims and Christians, making them afraid of each other; Alsisi is playing the same game in Sinai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Tarek lamented why the European Union is not spending adequate efforts to stop the unbearable situation in Egypt, warning of a dark future in continuation of violations against human rights in terms of impunity, forced disapprance, torture, and confiscation of basic rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr.Castaldo started the briefing with some introductory remarks on the situation in Egypt. He also added \u201c since president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi came to power in 2013, the human rights situation has deteriorated in a catastrophic way, and this is also demonstrated by the wave of arrests following the protests of last fall against corruption in the government. He mentioned that Cairo is an important partner for the European Union on the economic level , on the migration issue and for regional stability, and Europe can\u2019t stay silent , dialogue must be intensified to maintain good relations with Cairo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tackling the issue of the political sphere and the public space closure in Egypt , Dr.Piquemal emphasized the rollback of democracy in Egypt which has increased and accelerated in 2018 during the president show election, in 2019 constitutional amendments, andin 2020 legislative elections which are still ongoing. All these events involved a very broad and general denial of citizenship righta to a free participation in public affairs. Added Ms. Piquemal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She also referred to preventing candidates of opposition parties from organizing those own compsignes. Piquemal asserted that the constitutional amendments in 2019 were meant to extend Alsisi's time in power, to constitutionalize the executive authority to grant the military custadionshiip on Egyptian citizens and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the context of frredom of expression,Ms. Maria Laura Franciosi confirmed that critisims is a genuine right in the press, condemning the closure of human rights websites in Egypt, and sending defenders behind bars. Ms. Maria strongly believe that the European Union does not seem to do much against the alarming situation of freedom of expression in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Franciosi continued to catgorically deplore all forms of abuse against journalists and human rights defenders, remembering the brutal killing of the Italian journalist Giulio Regeni who was prepareing for his PH.D assertation. She ended with calling upon the European Union to act more firmly against these practices against freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The seminar ended wirh the contribution of the Egyptian journalist Tarek Mahmoud who pointed out that the Egyptian authorities always accuse journalists and human rights defenders of international conspiracy against Egypt. Mr. Mahmoud reviewed that 90 journalists are in prison and 12 were killed since 2011, reminding when the journalist Regeni was tortured to death, and other 5 people paid the cost and there were killed as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Mahmoud further said that Alsisi manipulates both Muslims and Christians, making them afraid of each other; Alsisi is playing the same game in Sinai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Tarek lamented why the European Union is not spending adequate efforts to stop the unbearable situation in Egypt, warning of a dark future in continuation of violations against human rights in terms of impunity, forced disapprance, torture, and confiscation of basic rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On Tuesday, corresponding to 17.11.2020, Democracy Centre for Transparency hosted a webinar on Human Rights Situation in Egypt<\/strong>. Mr.Castaldo started the briefing with some introductory remarks on the situation in Egypt. He also added \u201c since president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi came to power in 2013, the human rights situation has deteriorated in a catastrophic way, and this is also demonstrated by the wave of arrests following the protests of last fall against corruption in the government. He mentioned that Cairo is an important partner for the European Union on the economic level , on the migration issue and for regional stability, and Europe can\u2019t stay silent , dialogue must be intensified to maintain good relations with Cairo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tackling the issue of the political sphere and the public space closure in Egypt , Dr.Piquemal emphasized the rollback of democracy in Egypt which has increased and accelerated in 2018 during the president show election, in 2019 constitutional amendments, andin 2020 legislative elections which are still ongoing. All these events involved a very broad and general denial of citizenship righta to a free participation in public affairs. Added Ms. Piquemal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She also referred to preventing candidates of opposition parties from organizing those own compsignes. Piquemal asserted that the constitutional amendments in 2019 were meant to extend Alsisi's time in power, to constitutionalize the executive authority to grant the military custadionshiip on Egyptian citizens and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the context of frredom of expression,Ms. Maria Laura Franciosi confirmed that critisims is a genuine right in the press, condemning the closure of human rights websites in Egypt, and sending defenders behind bars. Ms. Maria strongly believe that the European Union does not seem to do much against the alarming situation of freedom of expression in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Franciosi continued to catgorically deplore all forms of abuse against journalists and human rights defenders, remembering the brutal killing of the Italian journalist Giulio Regeni who was prepareing for his PH.D assertation. She ended with calling upon the European Union to act more firmly against these practices against freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The seminar ended wirh the contribution of the Egyptian journalist Tarek Mahmoud who pointed out that the Egyptian authorities always accuse journalists and human rights defenders of international conspiracy against Egypt. Mr. Mahmoud reviewed that 90 journalists are in prison and 12 were killed since 2011, reminding when the journalist Regeni was tortured to death, and other 5 people paid the cost and there were killed as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Mahmoud further said that Alsisi manipulates both Muslims and Christians, making them afraid of each other; Alsisi is playing the same game in Sinai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Tarek lamented why the European Union is not spending adequate efforts to stop the unbearable situation in Egypt, warning of a dark future in continuation of violations against human rights in terms of impunity, forced disapprance, torture, and confiscation of basic rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On Tuesday, corresponding to 17.11.2020, Democracy Centre for Transparency hosted a webinar on Human Rights Situation in Egypt<\/strong>. Mr.Castaldo started the briefing with some introductory remarks on the situation in Egypt. He also added \u201c since president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi came to power in 2013, the human rights situation has deteriorated in a catastrophic way, and this is also demonstrated by the wave of arrests following the protests of last fall against corruption in the government. He mentioned that Cairo is an important partner for the European Union on the economic level , on the migration issue and for regional stability, and Europe can\u2019t stay silent , dialogue must be intensified to maintain good relations with Cairo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tackling the issue of the political sphere and the public space closure in Egypt , Dr.Piquemal emphasized the rollback of democracy in Egypt which has increased and accelerated in 2018 during the president show election, in 2019 constitutional amendments, andin 2020 legislative elections which are still ongoing. All these events involved a very broad and general denial of citizenship righta to a free participation in public affairs. Added Ms. Piquemal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She also referred to preventing candidates of opposition parties from organizing those own compsignes. Piquemal asserted that the constitutional amendments in 2019 were meant to extend Alsisi's time in power, to constitutionalize the executive authority to grant the military custadionshiip on Egyptian citizens and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the context of frredom of expression,Ms. Maria Laura Franciosi confirmed that critisims is a genuine right in the press, condemning the closure of human rights websites in Egypt, and sending defenders behind bars. Ms. Maria strongly believe that the European Union does not seem to do much against the alarming situation of freedom of expression in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Franciosi continued to catgorically deplore all forms of abuse against journalists and human rights defenders, remembering the brutal killing of the Italian journalist Giulio Regeni who was prepareing for his PH.D assertation. She ended with calling upon the European Union to act more firmly against these practices against freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The seminar ended wirh the contribution of the Egyptian journalist Tarek Mahmoud who pointed out that the Egyptian authorities always accuse journalists and human rights defenders of international conspiracy against Egypt. Mr. Mahmoud reviewed that 90 journalists are in prison and 12 were killed since 2011, reminding when the journalist Regeni was tortured to death, and other 5 people paid the cost and there were killed as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Mahmoud further said that Alsisi manipulates both Muslims and Christians, making them afraid of each other; Alsisi is playing the same game in Sinai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Tarek lamented why the European Union is not spending adequate efforts to stop the unbearable situation in Egypt, warning of a dark future in continuation of violations against human rights in terms of impunity, forced disapprance, torture, and confiscation of basic rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n DCT holds a workshops with MEPs to discuss arms embargo on powers fighting in Yemen particularly state actors such as KSA and UAE which purchase German and European War On Tuesday, corresponding to 17.11.2020, Democracy Centre for Transparency hosted a webinar on Human Rights Situation in Egypt<\/strong>. Mr.Castaldo started the briefing with some introductory remarks on the situation in Egypt. He also added \u201c since president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi came to power in 2013, the human rights situation has deteriorated in a catastrophic way, and this is also demonstrated by the wave of arrests following the protests of last fall against corruption in the government. He mentioned that Cairo is an important partner for the European Union on the economic level , on the migration issue and for regional stability, and Europe can\u2019t stay silent , dialogue must be intensified to maintain good relations with Cairo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tackling the issue of the political sphere and the public space closure in Egypt , Dr.Piquemal emphasized the rollback of democracy in Egypt which has increased and accelerated in 2018 during the president show election, in 2019 constitutional amendments, andin 2020 legislative elections which are still ongoing. All these events involved a very broad and general denial of citizenship righta to a free participation in public affairs. Added Ms. Piquemal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She also referred to preventing candidates of opposition parties from organizing those own compsignes. Piquemal asserted that the constitutional amendments in 2019 were meant to extend Alsisi's time in power, to constitutionalize the executive authority to grant the military custadionshiip on Egyptian citizens and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the context of frredom of expression,Ms. Maria Laura Franciosi confirmed that critisims is a genuine right in the press, condemning the closure of human rights websites in Egypt, and sending defenders behind bars. Ms. Maria strongly believe that the European Union does not seem to do much against the alarming situation of freedom of expression in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Franciosi continued to catgorically deplore all forms of abuse against journalists and human rights defenders, remembering the brutal killing of the Italian journalist Giulio Regeni who was prepareing for his PH.D assertation. She ended with calling upon the European Union to act more firmly against these practices against freedom of expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The seminar ended wirh the contribution of the Egyptian journalist Tarek Mahmoud who pointed out that the Egyptian authorities always accuse journalists and human rights defenders of international conspiracy against Egypt. Mr. Mahmoud reviewed that 90 journalists are in prison and 12 were killed since 2011, reminding when the journalist Regeni was tortured to death, and other 5 people paid the cost and there were killed as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Mahmoud further said that Alsisi manipulates both Muslims and Christians, making them afraid of each other; Alsisi is playing the same game in Sinai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Tarek lamented why the European Union is not spending adequate efforts to stop the unbearable situation in Egypt, warning of a dark future in continuation of violations against human rights in terms of impunity, forced disapprance, torture, and confiscation of basic rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament<\/p>\n\n\n\n The events will feature a number of experts and discuss human rights in Middle East with focus on Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speakers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaired by Ms. Samira RAFAELA MEP, member of Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Maria Laura FRANCIOSI, Maria Laura Franciosi is a journalist on European affairs, Vice President of Brussels Press Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Leslie PIQUEMAL, Senior EU Advocacy Representative at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies \u2014\u2014- Time: 14 to 15:00 PM (Brussels Time)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Book your participation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Info@dctransparency.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n More details Event hosted by Democracy Centre for Transparency<\/p>\n","post_title":"Announcement: Briefing on Human Rights in Middle East","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"briefing-on-human-rights-in-middle-east","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=3887","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3883,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_date_gmt":"2020-10-29 11:57:16","post_content":"\n After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at the inhumane conditions asylum seekers were forced to live in, temporary replacement camp sees conditions deteriorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Democracy Center for Transparency<\/p>\n\n\n\n (October 22, 2020 \u2013 Berlin)<\/strong> NGOs Oxfam and the Greek Council for Refugees reported on Tuesday that conditions in Moria\u2019s replacement camp, an informal settlement on a former shooting range meant to provide temporary shelter to the 13,000 people left homeless after a fire, are worse than at the original camp. Over 7,500 individuals have been forcibly housed in tents unfit for weather conditions, often flood with just 10 minutes of rain, despite the oncoming winter months. With some tents just twenty meters away from the ocean, the camp is reported to hold hardly any running water during a pandemic, limited healthcare services, and no access to legal aid, making mobility more difficult to achieve than ever. Similarly, the dismal lack of toilets and showers expose residents to increased risks of sexual and gender-based violence. Some desperate residents have taken to bathing and washing in the nearby sea, facing the risk of drowning, as well as catching disease, as the camp\u2019s wastewater is drained in the sea. Children and adults must wait in line to fill their container with cold water from a hose, with no physical distancing or sanitization measures possible throughout the camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n DCT holds a workshops with MEPs to discuss arms embargo on powers fighting in Yemen particularly state actors such as... On Tuesday, corresponding to 17.11.2020, Democracy Centre for Transparency hosted a webinar on Human Rights Situation in Egypt.The webinar was... Hosted by Mr. Fabio Massimo CASTALDO MEP, vice-president of the European Parliament The events will feature a number of experts... After the hellish Moria migrant camp burned down in September on the Greek island of Lesbos, instigating international outcry at... The European Parliament voted to downgrade its attendance at the upcoming November summit presided by Saudi Arabia and called for... © 2025 DCT BV | Kempenaerstraat 11B – 1051 CJ Amsterdam – Netherlands | All Rights Reserved
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