Considering the international association of rights and freedoms as one of the human rights organizations in the world which thrives for maintaining human rights, defends the oppressed, and reveals the practices and violations committed by the regimes in our Arab region. On the occasion of the world Human Rights Day which falls on December 10 of every year, (IARF) values the positive moves done by some Arabic and Islamic countries which aim at reinforcing the guarantees of human rights respect such as the Bahrain initiative to establish the Arabic court of human rights; and the Moroccan approval of the extra protocol added to the convention against torture and other humiliating inhumane treatment. However, the international association expresses its deep concern regarding the vast violation of human rights which is still committed in the majority of countries in our Arab and Islamic World, and reveals the obvious contradiction between the official discourse and the real conditions of rights and freedoms. This indeed proves the nonfulfillment of the international commitments. For this year has witnessed an increase of abusive arrest, torture, compulsory disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and lack of independence of the judiciary. These practices have culminated in Egypt and Libya. In addition, the Ahwaz region has known more major human rights violation such as compulsory disappearances and abusive arrest by the Iranian authorities, executions, demolition of houses and confiscation of property, demolition of historical monuments and places of worship, systematical displacement of the natives, and obliteration of the original Arabic identity of Ahwaz citizens. Moreover, Tunisia has witnessed silencing of press freedom and nongovernmental organizations by shutting down many of them and legislating a new anti-terror law which increases restriction over freedom. In addition, many Arabic countries as Syria and Iraq have encountered miserable conditions in terms of arrest and extrajudicial killing and executions. Also, the Kuwaiti authorities have withdrawn the nationality and deprived the contrary views of their citizenship, beside repressing the acts which are considered within the right of opinion and expression as assembly and gathering. In addition, these authorities didn’t bother regulating the status of stateless persons who face discrimination, and are exposed to systematic violations which affect their basic rights, as well as depriving eligible citizens from having their Kuwaiti nationality and enjoying their civil, political economic and social rights.
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As to Lebanon, UN team regarding torture opposition have issued a striking report that considered grilling in Lebanon becoming a systematic act done by the Lebanese security forces, besides the expansion of abusive arrest campaigns especially amid the Syrian refugees, where hundreds of them have been arrested; their camps have been burned and their property destroyed. In the same way, Morocco has known an escalation in striking the right of citizens of peaceful assembly, and preventing some organizations from using public space along with prevention of activities. Moroccan authorities aren’t even negotiating prisoners who are on hunger strike since more than a month and till now in a group of prisons, along with exposing them to torture and cruel inhumane treatment. These authorities finish off the prisoners’ rights which are supposedly guaranteed by the typical rules of prisoners’ treatment; in addition, they are continuing the detainment of people who have had special recommendations of release and compensation by the UN team regarding the abusive arrest. Moreover, some prisoners are still held from 2003, and hadn’t had any fair trial guarantees but tortured, besides authorities have used anti-terror law in the absence of assurances of human rights respect. Regarding this situation, the international association of rights and freedom calls on the countries of Arab and Islamic world to: • Expand the guarantees of human rights’ respect by ratification of the international conventions, especially those regarding civil and political rights, and respect the requirements of ratified international conventions to maintain and protect the human rights and activate the principle of non-impunity. • Act on applying the recommendations issued by Human Rights Council or other mechanisms of UN regarding the human rights status in the Arab world, and work on the development of programs to implement those recommendations. Finally, the International Association of Rights and Freedoms draws attention that it will make an approach which aims at making the Arab and Islamic countries activate the recommendations issued by UN mechanisms of human rights protection through interaction with concerned national institutions and connected UN mechanisms. General secretariat Of International Association of Rights and Freedoms
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