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Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Algerian government to halt its persecution and hate speech against religious minorities in the country after authorities proceeded to a crackdown on the followers of the Ahmadi sect. HRW raised the alarm concerning the discrimination endured by religious minorities in Algeria following the arrest of the President of […]
An attack on an airbase in southern Libya killed 141, mostly soldiers within the ranks of General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA), media reports said. A spokesperson for the LNA confirmed the death toll of the attack at Brak Al-Shati air base, which was believed to be perpetrated by troops loyal to the UN-backed […]
In its latest report on Algeria, Human Rights Watch called on Algerian authorities to intervene to end the confinement imposed on women in the Polisario-run camps in the region of Tindouf. HRW sheds light on the case of Sahrawi girls who lived and established legal residency in Spain and who were prevented from traveling back […]
Amnesty International urged Algeria to adopt a law on asylum and fight against the prevailing racism against Sub-Saharans, after several Algerian officials uttered racist statements against Sub-Saharans coupled with mass summary deportations of several African migrants, including asylum seekers. “The authorities should decriminalize irregular immigration,” Amnesty’s Algeria office said in a statement on Sunday. The […]
International rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch, called on Algeria to honor its commitments under the 1951 Geneva convention and to bring to a halt all mass deportations of Sub Sharan migrants. The call was expressed in a statement released Friday after Algerian authorities rounded up more than 1400 sub-Saharan migrants in Algiers and deported them […]
Human Rights Watch, welcomed Morocco’s new law regulating work for domestic workers saying that such a legislation is “ground breaking” in as far as it will protect the rights of this social category. This new law “could help protect thousands of women and girls from exploitation and abuse,” said the international rights watchdog in a […]
Human Rights Watch has urged the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who is currently touring the Maghreb region to intervene in favor of Sahrawi women who are prevented by their families from leaving the Polisario-run Tindouf camps for Spain, where they legally reside. HRW called the UN chief to seize the opportunity of his visit […]
Human Rights Watch Tuesday criticised Cairo for smashing people’s rights in its campaign against IS fighters in North Sinai and said it may produce more militants as its buffer zone creation is leaving thousands of residents with no roof and no means of subsistence. The Chief of the Human Watch Dog in Middle East and […]
Human Rights Watch has called on Algerian authorities “to release or try in a fair and open trial a pro-Amazigh activist, Kameleddine Fekhar, and his 24 co-defendants”. Fekhar has since 2013 called for autonomy of the Mzab, a northern Sahara region, and has condemned the Algerian government for “complicity in crimes against humanity by Sunni […]
libya-extremists-fighters Armed groups loyal to the Tripoli government have clashed with fighters that had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in the first known confrontation between the two groups. A statement by the Tripoli-based chief of staff confirmed that the fighting took place in Sirte and claimed that they killed 17 fighters and seized 13 […]