The Collectif des Familles de Disparu(e)s en Algérie (CFDA) and Sos Disparu(e)s call on the Algerian national authorities to immediately cease all practices aimed at intimidating the families of the disappeared and denounce the new attacks on the most fundamental rights of the families. Indeed, harassment campaigns are multiplying and intensifying against the families of the... Continue reading ALGERIA: Harassment will not stop the struggle of families of the disappeared for the right to justice and truth!

A potential mass grave has been reported on land belonging to the Syriac Catholic Patriarchate in the town of Chabaniyeh (Chouf). The authorities have announced that the bones found there are of animal origin (goats and dogs). Representatives of the three above-mentioned associations, accompanied by Maitre Nizar Saghieh and Dr Hussein Shahrour, medical doctor... Continue reading LEBANON : Mass grave in the town of Chabaniyeh

In Syria, mass enforced disappearances are becoming a daily occurrence, bringing terror to the country. According to human rights associations, almost 3,000 people have disappeared since March 15. On Tuesday, August 23, 2011, the UN Human Rights Council finally intervened in... Continue reading SYRIA: Bloodshed and enforced disappearances in Syria, the international community must act firmly!

Since the beginning of 2011, the practice of enforced disappearance has become widespread, as unprecedented movements for democratic change have been suppressed in the countries of the Euro-Mediterranean region. Indeed, the burning news in Syria and Libya brings with it a daily toll of dead and missing. On this International Day of the Disappeared, it is... Continue reading International Day of the Disappeared: Stop impunity in the Euro-Mediterranean region!

Copenhagen, Geneva and Paris, September 1, 2011. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, the joint program of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), and the Euro-Mediterranean Federation Against Disappearances... Continue reading SYRIA: Activists' families target of reprisals

This Wednesday, September 14, families of the "disappeared", who were holding their weekly rally not far from the CNCPPDH, crossed paths with a delegation from the UN's International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions (ICC), who were on their way to La Commission. The families of the disappeared did not fail to... Continue reading ALGERIA: Families of the disappeared challenge the UN ICC delegation at their weekly rally

This Tuesday, October 4, our family celebrates the 47th anniversary of the death of our brother Abdelhak. We would like to inform the public of the following: In a press release we issued on January 30, 2010, we recalled that the Advisory Council on Human Rights had presented... Continue reading MOROCCO: Press release from the family of Abdelhak Rouissi on the 47th anniversary of his disappearance

On the eve of the first European Union-Algeria Sub-Committee on Political Dialogue, Security and Human Rights, scheduled for October 3 in Algiers, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, the joint program of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)... Continue reading ALGERIA: Stop the campaign of harassment against trade union activists!

The Coalition of Associations of Victims of the 1990s, the Collectif des familles de disparus en Algérie (CFDA), Sos Disparus, the Djazairouna Association and the Somoud Association, are calling for a demonstration for Truth and Justice. In the context of revolutions in the Arab world, the Coalition reaffirms that the fight against impunity is an integral part of the fight for... Continue reading All against impunity in Algeria: March for the disappeared