The blatant Human Rights violations committed by Algeria were exposed Wednesday during a symposium held by the International Observatory IOPDHR-GENEVA, at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, on the occasion of the 41st Universal Review Periodic mechanism.
The meeting, held in partnership with the international organization PDES-NGO, touched on several matters related to Algeria’s human rights situation, such as the right to free speech, the thorny issue of demonstrators and activists, the alarming resurgence of violations in public spaces, the abnormal situation in the Tindouf camps, and the gap recorded in relation to the standards of the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees, said the IOPDHR-GENEVA in a statement.
This symposium was moderated by Swedish political advisor and expert in African affairs Björn Holtin. The speakers were Algerian political and human rights activist and president of the Maghreb Association for Peace, Cooperation, and Development Oualid Kebir, a Dutch expert in organizational behavior and organizational anthropology and member of the board of Human Rights without Borders in Brussels Hans Noot, and president of the Geneva International Observatory for Human Rights Aouicha Duihi.
