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HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement
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HuMENA is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting human rights and civic engagement across the #MENA region. With offices in Brussels and Beirut, HuMENA operates through regional teams to protect civic space and empower communities.
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🔵Release him immediately and unconditionally
🔵Ensure urgent medical care and access to family and legal counsel
🔵End unofficial detention, arbitrary detention, and enforced disappearance

📖Full letter: humena.org/yemen-joint-...
Yemen | Joint Letter: Release Journalist Naseh Shaker
Naseh Shaker has been forcibly disappeared and held in Aden since November 2023. A joint letter calls for his release, medical care, and due process guarantees.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Authorities refused for months to disclose his whereabouts. In Feb 2025, his family was told he had been held at al-Nasr Brigade’s prison and later transferred to Beir Ahmed prison.
Yemen | Joint Letter: Release Journalist Naseh Shaker
Naseh Shaker has been forcibly disappeared and held in Aden since November 2023. A joint letter calls for his release, medical care, and due process guarantees.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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We are especially keen to hear from teams rooted in the MENA civic-tech and human rights ecosystem. If this sounds like you or someone in your network, please take a look and tag them or share this call in your network.

Deadline for submissions: 10 January 2026

Details: bit.ly/WatchdogDev
Call for Tenders | Lead Developer / Civic-Tech Team – Civic Space Watchdog (AI-Assisted MVP)
HuMENA is recruiting a lead developer or small civic-tech team to build the Civic Space Watchdog MVP, an AI-assisted platform to monitor civic space in Tunisia and Egypt.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Heads up @civicusalliance.bsky.social @humena.bsky.social @hrw.org @alqst.bsky.social @marcowenjones.bsky.social @jongambrell.bsky.social @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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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 🕊
September 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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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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August 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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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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August 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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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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August 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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August 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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#DigitalRepression #CivicSpace #FreedomOfExpression #HuMENA
August 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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📍 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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August 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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✍️ 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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July 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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📌 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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July 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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استمرار الصمت الدولي يُعد إخلالًا بالالتزامات القانونية الدولية ولا يتماشى مع مسؤوليات الدول الأطراف في اتفاقيات جنيف.
July 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM