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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · 22d

HuMENA has joined the #CICC, the world’s largest CSOs network advancing #InternationalJustice.

Through this step, HuMENA continues documenting grave crimes — from #genocide and #warcrimes in #Palestine and #Lebanon to repression across #MENA — working to end #impunity and advance #accountability.

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Sep 5

📢 Join us at the #GlobalGathering in Estoril, Portugal.

Circle: Reclaiming Civic Voices & Online Space in SWANA

🗓️ Sept 9 | 🕜 13:30–14:30
📍 Booth 18, SWANA Village
Co-hosted by @humena.bsky.social
, @skylineforhuman
, Vuka! Coalition & @CIVICUS
.

#SWANA #DigitalRights #CivicSpace

HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Sep 3

At HuMENA, we’re fighting to keep public space open, loud, and untamed. Because without protest, there is no freedom — only silence.

Learn more about our work defending the right to peaceful assembly: www.humena.org

#FoPA #WeProtest #DefendFoPA #CivicSpace #HumanRights #HuMENA #MENA 🕊

HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Sep 3

They shut down streets,
We build movements.

They criminalize protests,
We defend the right to speak, gather, and resist.

Because freedom of peaceful assembly is not a privilege to be granted, it is a right to be claimed.

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Aug 22

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The Egyptian Government’s Urban Control Strategies to Prevent Peaceful Protests - HuMENA

Discover how Egypt’s government reshaped urban planning to prevent peaceful protests. From Tahrir Square to the New Administrative Capital, learn how security-driven urbanization restricts civic space...

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Aug 22

Egypt🇪🇬 | Urban Control & Civic Space
Since 2014, Egypt has reshaped laws & cities to restrict civic space. From Tahrir Square to the New Administrative Capital, public spaces were securitized to deter protests & suppress collective action.

🔗 By Ibrahim Ezzedine: humena.org/blogs/egypt-...

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Aug 12

Since Oct 2023, 192 journalists killed — the deadliest conflict for media ever.

📖 humena.org/israel-war-c...

HuMENA: Israel’s Targeting of Journalists in Gaza Is a War Crime and a Crime Against Humanity in the Context of Systematic Genocide and Starvation - HuMENA

HuMENA condemns Israel’s killing of five journalists in Gaza as a war crime and a crime against humanity within a policy of genocide and starvation, calling for urgent ICC investigation and internatio...

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Aug 12

#Palestine 🇵🇸 | HuMENA condemns Israel’s killing of 5 journalists in #Gaza in cold blood while reporting from the field — a clear #WarCrime and part of a wider policy of #Genocide & #SystematicStarvation.

📖 humena.org/israel-war-c...

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Aug 11

This is part of a sustained campaign of arrests, site blocking & judicial harassment targeting Mada Masr and other independent outlets.

🔗 humena.org/lina-attalah...

Egypt | Ongoing Harassment of Lina Attalah and Escalating Crackdown on Mada Masr and Independent Journalism in Egypt - HuMENA

Rights groups condemn Egypt’s judicial and security harassment of Lina Attalah, Mada Masr, and independent media, calling for an end to repression.

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Aug 11

🇪🇬 #Egypt is intensifying its crackdown on independent journalism.
Editor-in-Chief #LinaAttalah of #MadaMasr was summoned by State Security Prosecution after publishing an investigation into prison abuses.

🔗 humena.org/lina-attalah...

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ARC – Artists at Risk Connection @atriskartists.bsky.social · Aug 1

@penamerica.bsky.social @peninternational.bsky.social @pencanada.bsky.social @freedomhouse.bsky.social @humena.bsky.social #FreeGalal

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Aug 1

#DigitalRepression #CivicSpace #FreedomOfExpression #HuMENA

HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Aug 1

📍 In his latest analytical piece, Mostafa Fouad, Executive Director of HuMENA, examines how repression has moved from the street to the screen.

🔗 humena.org/blogs/street...

From Street to Screen: Maps of Struggle in the Age of Algorithms and Digital Repression - HuMENA

Explore how digital repression reshapes protest in MENA. Mostafa Fouad examines activism, algorithmic bias, surveillance, and the fight for online freedoms.

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Aug 1

As civic space shrinks across MENA, the digital sphere is no longer a refuge; it’s a battleground shaped by algorithms, censorship, and surveillance.

📍In his latest analytical piece, @mostfouad.bsky.social examines how repression has moved from the street to the screen.
🔗 humena.org/blogs/street...

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Jul 25

✍️ Analysis by Nour Halabi 📖 humena.org/blogs/lebano...

#FreedomOfExpression #CivicSpace

Activism and Identity Politics Under a Sectarian System: The Case of Lebanon - HuMENA

Nour Halabi analyzes how Lebanese alternative media like Daraj and Megaphone challenge sectarianism in politics and identity via activist journalism.

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Jul 25

🇱🇧 In #Lebanon, sectarian identity defines access to citizenship and speech. Mainstream media reinforce this exclusion by marginalizing refugees & Palestinians.
Outlets like Megaphone & Daraj have countered these narratives, especially during the Gaza war, with rights-based, critical coverage.

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Jul 25

📌 مقال جديد على #هيومينا، يُحلّل كيف تتقاطع الناشطية الصحفية مع سياسات الهوية، وتعيد رسم حدود المشاركة السياسية.

✍️ بقلم نور الحلبي 📖 humena.org/ar/blogs/leb...

#حرية_التعبير #المساحات_المدنية #الناشطية_الصحفية

سياسة الهَوية والناشطية تحت نظام طائفي: حالة لبنان - HuMENA

تحليل لدور وسائل الإعلام البديلة مثل ميغافون ودرج في مواجهة الطائفية السياسية في لبنان من خلال الصحافة الناشطة وتفكيك سياسات الهوية.

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Jul 25

#لبنان 🇱🇧 | في لبنان، تُستخدم الهوية لإقصاء اللاجئين والمهمّشين، عبر نظام طائفي يعيد تعريف المواطَنة وحدود التعبير. الإعلام التقليدي يُعيد إنتاج هذا الإقصاء، بينما تقابل منصات مثل درج وميغافون الرواية السائدة بخطاب ناقد، خاصة خلال حرب غزة.

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Jul 22

استمرار الصمت الدولي يُعد إخلالًا بالالتزامات القانونية الدولية ولا يتماشى مع مسؤوليات الدول الأطراف في اتفاقيات جنيف.

HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Jul 22

📍غزة | رغم وضوح الأدلة وتكرار التحذيرات، لا يمكن النظر إلى حرمان أكثر من مليونين من المدنيين في غزة من الغذاء والماء والرعاية الصحية كحدث عرضي. بل هو استراتيجية ممنهجة تؤدي إلى عواقب إنسانية متوقعة.

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Jul 22

Continued silence is incompatible with international legal obligations and undermines the responsibility of state parties to the Geneva Conventions.

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Jul 22

📍 Gaza | Despite clear evidence and repeated warnings, the ongoing deprivation of food, water, and medical care from over two million civilians in Gaza cannot be seen as incidental. It is a deliberate strategy with foreseeable humanitarian consequences.

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Jul 21

✍️ الباحثة السورية مايا الجرف تكتب تحليلًا دقيقًا لمعادلات المجتمع المدني في سوريا ما بعد الأسد:
🔗 humena.org/ar/blogs/pos...

HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Jul 21

🔵 الجمعيات تعمل بتراخيص مؤقتة وتحت تهديد دائم بالإغلاق
🔵 يتم تهميش النساء والمجتمعات المهمّشة ومجموعات الميم
🔵 يُستبعد الشتات السوري سياسيًا رغم دوره المستمر
🔵 العدالة الانتقالية تتجنّب المساءلة وتُبقي على الجراح مفتوحة

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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement @humena.bsky.social · Jul 21

#سوريا 🇸🇾 | في مرحلة ما بعد الأسد، بدأت المبادرات المدنية بالظهور مجددًا. لكن المساحة المتاحة للعمل تبقى هشّة، محدودة، وخاضعة لحسابات سياسية ضيّقة.

✍️ في هذه التدوينة، تكتب الباحثة السورية مايا الجرف تحليلًا دقيقًا لمعادلات المجتمع المدني في سوريا ما بعد الأسد:
🔗 humena.org/ar/blogs/pos...

على مفترق طرق: المجتمع المدني بسورية ما بعد الأسد والنضال من أجل الاستقلال - HuMENA

مايا الجرف تكتب عن عودة المجتمع المدني في سوريا ما بعد الأسد، بين الوعود الرسمية والرقابة المتجددة، ونضال الفاعلين المدنيين من الداخل والشتات.

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