Media Home
UN Web TV
UN Audiovisual Library
UN PhotoTransnational Repression in the MENA Region: The Role of Regional Organizations Engaged in Counter-Terrorism
Categories
Production Date
Video Length
01:26:03
Broadcasting UN Entity
Summary
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is witnessing a troubling trend of transnational repression, with regional organizations often exacerbating human rights abuses. These abuses often target and silence activists, dissidents and human rights defenders under the guise of counterterrorism laws and other measures inconsistent with international human rights standards.
View moreView lessDescription
In his recent report presented to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism has highlighted a number of human rights concerns posed by legal frameworks and practices of regional organizations engaged in counterterrorism.
Panelists:
- Abdullah ALAOUDH, Saudi activist and Director for Countering Authoritarianism, Middle East Democracy Center
- Jenan AL-MARZOOQI, Emirati human rights defender and Associate Advocate, Emirati Detainees Advocacy Center
- Tanya BOULAKOVSKI, Human Rights Officer, MENA Rights Group
- Sherif OSMAN, U.S.-Egyptian activist
- Ben SAUL, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
Moderator: Franziska PRAXL-TABUCHI, Director of Civic Space and Multilateral Security Policy, Global Center on Cooperative Security