OCHR-Oman

Articles 18, 19 and 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out the meaning of freedom of religion and belief and explain the need to protect these rights. The…
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    The Oman Human Rights Commission was established by Royal Decree in 2008.  At the time, many activists and intellectuals welcomed its creation, since even the…
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A resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in 2013 (A/HRC/RES/24/5) says that “in accordance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political…
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“They monitor your social media; they monitor your phone calls, even your meetings with friends, just to be sure that you won’t go back to doing the activity you were…
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  Figures published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicate that about one in three women worldwide are subjected to physical and/or sexual violence…
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In March 2020 the Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tariq, published the Internal Security Service Law by means of Royal Decree No. 4/2020, and authorised the head of…
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In April 2020 Oman agreed to join the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which defines “enforced…
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The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a process for periodically reviewing the human rights records of all the member states of the United Nations, and is currently the…
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Over the past few weeks the Omani authorities have arrested at least five ordinary citizens for peacefully expressing views on topics such as atheism, the position of women and…
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