Egypt: After three years behind bars, Egyptian-American political prisoner, Aya Hijazi, and her Egyptian husband, Mohamed Hassanein, were found not guilty and released from custody on April 18, 2017. The couple have been detained since May 1, 2014, when authorities raided the offices of an organization ran by the couple, the “Belady Foundation for Street…
The C4 Centre, an independent Malaysian nonprofit organization that promotes government transparency, recently released their new report entitled, “Understanding Cross-Border Corruption and Money Laundering: the 1MDB Chronicles Exposed.” The report documents a global corruption scandal involving 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund that received $3.5 billion USD of Abu Dhabi government-funded bonds…
Since 2016, the #IAmMyOwnGuardian Campaign has advocated for the abolishment of the guardianship system in Saudi Arabia. This system subjugates women by making male guardians, including their fathers, husbands, or other male relatives, their legal custodians throughout their lives. Nearly 15,000 Saudi women called for an end to guardianship through the Campaign’s online petition which…
On April 11, 2017, Congolese civil society organization La Voix Des Sans Voix Pour Les Droits De L’Homme (VSV) issued a statement condemning the government’s decision to ban public protests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The ban was intended to prevent the opposition political party Union for Democracy and Social Progress from…