
Egypt: Reform unjust vice laws, guarantee open civic space
During Egypt's UPR adoption at HRC59, Nora Noralla delivered a joint statement on behalf of ISHR, Cairo 52 and Middle East Democracy Center. Watch and read the full statement below.
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At the 56th session of the Human Rights Council, during the adoption of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report of Chad, ISHR and the Ligue Tchadienne des Droits de l'Homme (LTDH) delivered a statement calling on Chad to strengthen the protection of civic space and ensure that freedom of peaceful assembly is protected.
During the review, Chad shared its willingness to organise a series of activities in cooperation with their traditional partners to ensure broad dissemination of all 334 accepted recommendations and to enable their administrative and customary state bodies, as well as civil society organisations, can take ownership of these recommendations.
In the joint statement, ISHR and LTDH noted that during the violently repressed demonstrations of 20 October 2022, at least a hundred people lost their lives. The families of the victims are still waiting for justice to be served. It is imperative that the Chadian authorities respect their commitment to justice, and promptly conduct an impartial and thorough investigation to determine the circumstances in which the demonstrators were killed and injured so that they can hold the perpetrators accountable.
Therefore, ISHR and LTDH called on Chad to:
During Egypt's UPR adoption at HRC59, Nora Noralla delivered a joint statement on behalf of ISHR, Cairo 52 and Middle East Democracy Center. Watch and read the full statement below.
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