The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and 35 partners presented the Alternative Human Rights Expo II, an online event on 15 November 2023.

 The event was hosted by Weaam Youssef of GCHR, exiled Emirati woman human rights defender Jenan Al-Marzooqi, and Brian Dooley of Human Rights First. The event was very personal for the co-hosts, who have worked with or are related to some of the human rights defenders featured. 

The purpose of the event was to call for the release of human rights defenders detained in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as well as others persecuted in the region – from Bahrain to Egypt to Iran to Saudi Arabia, by showcasing the work of detained human rights defenders, and featuring environmental activists, as well as poets, writers and musicians from Egypt, Bahrain, Iran, Morocco and Lebanon.

The event had a common theme of women’s rights and environmental rights, and featured women activists in prison in the UAE, Iran and Saudi Arabia, as well as the art of Emirati, Syrian and Palestinian women artists.

You can watch the event online at https://www.alternativehrexpo.org/ or on GCHR’s YouTube account. The full programme is below:
https://www.youtube.com/@gulfcentre4humanrights
https://www.alternativehrexpo.org/gallery/