Alkarama for Human Rights and Algeria-Watch, 17 August 2007

We are launching a new appeal to Algerian human rights associations, women’s associations, journalists, independent unions, political party and association activists, lawyers and human rights defenders to get involved with the UN Human Rights Committee’s expert examination of the third periodic report of the Algerian government on 23 October 2007.

Alkarama for Human Rights and Algeria-Watch, 23 July 2007

Algeria was required by the Human Rights Committee to issue its third periodic report in June 2000. It did not do so, however, until 22 September 2006, six years later. The period taken into account in our observations thus stretches from 1998 until today.

Alkarama for Human Rights, 2 August 2007

In another blow to the British government’s claim that “diplomatic assurances” prevent torture, British judges have stopped the government from deporting three people to Algeria.  Their close examination of the evidence confirmed a point that Alkarama and other human rights organisations had made from the beginning – that, notwithstanding the diplomatic assurances given by Algeria to the UK, people deported were still at risk of torture.

Let us react to the report the government submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee 

Alkarama and Algeria-Watch, 25 June 2007

We appeal to all Algerian human rights groups, women’s organisations, journalists, independent unions, organisation and party political activists, lawyers and human rights defenders to get involved in the UN Human Rights Council expert examination of the third periodic report of the Algerian government on 23 July 2007 (available at: Report .)