Right to Nonviolence (RN) is extremely fortunate that Ahmed Karaoud, outgoing director of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) office of Amnesty International, is joining RN’s network as regional expert correspondent for Tunisia. A leading human rights defender and former prisoner of conscience in his native Tunisia, Mr. Karaoud has worked for more than 20 years with Amnesty International – first […]
RN Chairman Chibli Mallat commented on Syria and Lebanon in a live interview today with BBC World News correspondent Lyse Doucet.
Right to Nonviolence (RN) organized in Beirut on July 19, 2012 an active discussion that joined Advisory Board members, leading figures in the Syrian opposition, youth activists, and RN research associates, with prominent representatives of both the Lebanese Association for the Philosophy of Law and Friends of Kamal Joumblatt Association. The participants received in advance a […]
On the occasion of an expected administrative court decision on the Constituent Assembly on July 17, Professor Chibli Mallat, Right to Nonviolence Chairman, and Tobias Peyerl, Director of the Middle East Constitutional Forum (MECF), discuss the current legal disputes in Egypt and the prospects of the Constituent Assembly. Find out more about recent developments in […]
On July 9, the Right to Nonviolence Constitutional Team provided in Ahram Online a presentation and full translation of the text of the presidential decree reinstating the Egyptian Parliament, dissolved by the Supreme Constitutional Court’s decision on June 14. It is the first time in recent Egyptian history that a SCC decision […]
A six-point statement of principles in a alternative plan that focuses on Assad’s demise, judicial accountability and the establishment of safe havens By Sadek Jalal al-Azm and Chibli Mallat 1. No national unity cabinet is possible with any of those who participated in the mass crimes since the nonviolent beginning of the Syrian Revolution in […]
