MIDDLE EAST

‘Tolerance for abuses against LGBTQI+ people has now been made explicit through legislation’

Sarah Sanbar | IRAQ

‘A free press is the ultimate antidote to the fog of war’

Carlos Martínez de la Serna | GAZA

CONFLICT | CRISIS

‘The attacks and disinformation campaign against UNRWA are aimed at dismantling it’

Jonathan Fowler | PALESTINE

CONFLICT | CRISIS

‘Double standards erode the principles of international humanitarian law and undermine its credibility’

Marco Sassòli | GLOBAL

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

‘Commercial spyware that enables digital repression and abuse must be completely banned’

Access Now | JORDAN

‘The regime is executing protesters to create fear and suppress any attempt at new mobilisation’

Asal Abasian | IRAN

‘The regime uses executions to maintain its grip on power through fear and intimidation’

Jasmin Ramsey | IRAN

‘Civil society has taken the lead in advocating for social change, human rights and political reforms’

Fadel Fakih | LEBANON

‘Lack of a political horizon leading to the liberation of Palestinians has brought us here’

Abdalaziz Alsalehi | PALESTINE

CONFLICT | CRISIS

‘We are caught in limbo, neither at war nor at peace, with state institutions nearly collapsed’

Radhya Almutawakel | YEMEN

CONFLICT | CRISIS