Events/Middle East Human Rights

Wikimedia UK Editathon: Middle Eastern Human Rights - 4 November 2018

This event page is for resources and pages to be edited as part of the Wikimedia UK workshop at Newspeak House on November 4, 2018

Agenda

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Freedom of expression

Blasphemy law

Migrant workers rights

2022 FIFA World Cup Controversies
Kafala System – Arabic version نظام الكفالة

Media

Women’s rights

Miscellaneous

Categories

People

Israa al-Ghomgham
Asma Khalifa
UAE Five
Sulaiman Yousif Binjassem
Abdulhakim Al Fadhli
Hadeel Buqrais
Shaikha Binjasim
Su’ad Al-Ali
Huda Abdelmonem
Abdulrasheed al-Faqih
Azza Soliman
إسراء الشافعي
Eman al-Nafjan
Yara Bader
Kamal al-Shawish
Tara Fares
Ebtisam al-Saegh
Abeer Al-Haddad
Abdullah Habib
Ejlal Ghavami
Zaniar Moradi
Zehra Doğan
Taher Ghadirian, Niloufar Bayani, Amirhossein Khaleghi, Houman Jokar, Sam Rajabi, Sepideh Kashani, Morad Tahbaz and Abdolreza Kouhpayeh - Iranian environmentalists facing the death penalty

Resources

WikiProject Human Rights is a hub for work on human rights pages on Wikipedia, and worth checking out for ideas.

Front Line Defenders - Sulaiman Yousif Binjassem

Front Line Defenders - Abdulhakim Al Fadhli

Front Line Defenders - Hadeel Buqrais

Front Line Defenders - Shaikha Binjasim

Front Line Defenders - by location

GC4HR: Iraq: Woman human rights defender Dr. Su’ad Al-Ali assassinated in Basra

Gulf Center for Human Rights - in the news

Guardian:Saudi Arabia seeks death penalty against female human rights activist Israa al-Ghomgham

AWID: Women human rights defenders

MEE:Egyptian security forces arrest 19 rights activists and lawyers (including Huda Abelmonem)

MEO:Egypt arrests 19 rights activists

Independent: Tara Fares: Iraqi social media star who attacked those who ‘chop off heads to prove there is a God’

Iranian International TV: UK-based Iranian opposition channel 'linked to Saudi crown prince'

Iran: Environmentalists Face Capital Charges

GCHR: Twitter account of human rights lawyer Abeer Al-Haddad hacked after she sued the head of the Central Apparatus

Oman: Writer and Internet activist Abdullah Habib released

Azza Soliman: Raised on justice and kindness

Yemen: Human rights activist abducted by the Huthi armed group must be released

Yemen: prominent human rights activist Abdulrasheed al-Faqih arrested

Kurdistan Human Rights Network

VOA: Iran Executes 3 Kurdish Activists, Sources Say

Imprisoned Kurdish journalist Zehra Dogan wins Courage in Journalism Award

Migrant Rights in the Arab World

The Universal Periodic Review

Uproar - Digital Rights at the Universal Periodic Review

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