Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) joined 128 other human rights and press freedom organizations in condemning the ...

The war in Yemen has reignited over the last four months, with devastating effects both in the country and beyond. Yet, once ...

Three highly respected writers and experts on the Middle East and North Africa, Afrah Nasser, Dalia Hatuqa and Sina Toossi, ...

GENOCIDE:” Why don’t we all use this word when we speak of Gaza? Why do we still use terms like conflict, self-defense or war ...

The European Union and states should activate blocking measures to counter U.S. sanctions against the International Criminal ...

Disarming Palestinians in Lebanon has historically been framed in purely securitized terms, with policymakers failing to adequately address the legal, political and economic realities sustaining ...

Years of bombardment and repeated displacement have forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to move and seek shelter ...

Palestinians learn early that violence committed against them by Israel and its allies comes in many forms. Much of it is ...

Leading up to this year's annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meetings in New York City in September, the United States withheld Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's visa. The United ...

(NEW YORK, N.Y., October 13, 2026) – In a landmark victory for free speech and justice, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York today granted a preliminary injunction ...

Sarah Leah Whitson is a human rights lawyer and author. She co-authored her recent book with Michael Omer-Man, “From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine,” published in ...

(Washington, D.C., October 9, 2026) – In response to the Trump administration's imposition of new institutional sanctions against the entire International Criminal Court, DAWN issues the following ...