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United Arab Emirates: Alkarama Briefs UN Delegates on Deteriorating Human Rights Situation
UAE - News | 30 November 2012
Alkarama was able to express its concerns on the current human rights situation in the United Arab Emirates earlier today, during the pre-session briefing organized by UPR-Info. Attended by numerous representatives of member States to the UN, it was a key opportunity to highlight urgent recommendations and questions that States should be raising during the UAE's second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on 28 January 2013.
UAE: Enforced Disappearance and Torture
UAE - News | 14 September 2012
Reveal Activist's Whereabouts; Investigate Torture Allegations
(Beirut) – United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities should immediately bring a victim of enforced disappearance, Ahmed al-Suweidi, before judicial authorities and open a thorough and impartial investigation into credible allegations of torture at State Security facilities. Human Rights Watch was joined in its statement by Alkarama (Dignity), the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), and Index on Censorship.
UAE: Human Rights Groups urge the UK and the US to intervene as number of detained dissidents reaches 50
UAE - News | 01 August 2012
Alkarama and other human rights groups wrote to the UK and US authorities to urge them to intervene with the UAE authorities regarding the unprecedented crackdown against Emirati activists taking place in the country. Since last December, the authorities have illegally detained 50 civil society activists and human rights lawyers. We fear that more people will be illegally arrested and detained as there has been an escalation in the crackdown against peaceful political dissidents and human rights activists in the past two weeks. Alkarama also provided information on the crackdown to the United Nations Special Procedures yesterday, following a statement by the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
UAE: Joint Open Letter to UK Foreign Secretary William Hague
UAE - News | 01 August 2012
On 1 August 2012, Alkarama and other Human Rights Groups wrote to UK Foreign Secretary William Hague to urge him to intervene with the UAE authorities regarding the recent unprecedented crackdown against activists .
UAE: Joint open letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
UAE - News | 31 July 2012
On 31 July 2012, Alkarama and other Human Rights Groups wrote to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to urge her to intervene with the UAE authorities regarding the recent unprecedented crackdown against activists.