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Engaging the Arab League in Promoting Human Rights
December 8, 2015News
AMMAN—Following the Arab uprisings, the League of Arab States seemed poised to play a much-needed role on many regional issues, including promoting human rights and increasing member states’ compliance with international conventions. However, the League’s approach in this regard has been far from consistent. This, coupled with waning revolutionary euphoria, has dampened civil society’s aspirations that the League could assume such a role. But a closer look at the organization reveals a slow shift in its positioning. Only through deeper understanding of the League can civil society engage with it to advance human rights in the region.

Today, the Open Society Foundations and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) jointly launched The League of Arab States: A Manual for Practioners. This essential guide provides civil society organizations with a solid understanding of the League’s structures, standards, and mechanisms relating to human rights to allow them to engage better with this important organization for a stronger impact on its decision-making mechanisms…