US EditionAlgeria - Lift Undue Restrictions On Associations
The draft bill would give Algeria's Interior Ministry broad powers to control associations, continuing a crackdown that has dissolved key human rights groups since 2019.
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Mouvement mondial des droits humainsAlgeria: Lift Undue Restrictions on Associations
Click to expand Image Demonstrators carry an Algerian flag in Algiers, Algeria, April 2, 2021. © 2021 Ramzi Boudina/Reuters (Beirut) – Algerian authorities should end excessive control over civil society groups and parliament should enact a new associations law based on international human rights standards, eight human rights organizations including Human Rights Watch said today. A preliminary draft bill currently under consideration to replace …
Rights groups warn of more civil society crackdown in Algeria – The North Africa Post
Eight leading human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, have called on Algerian authorities to withdraw a proposed draft law on associations, warning that it would further erode the right to freedom of association and entrench government control over civil society. In a joint statement, the groups criticized the draft bill intended to replace the […]
The new draft law maintains restrictions and gives the government excessive powers. Seven human rights organizations today called on the Algerian authorities to end excessive restrictions on civil society organizations and enact a new law regulating associations... The post Algeria: Unjustified restrictions on associations must be lifted appeared first on Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS).
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