POMED Notes: “Engaging on Human Rights in the Middle East”

POMED and the Heinrich Boell Foundation North America co-hosted a panel discussion yesterday, which focused on the ways in which multilateral frameworks work to promote or to inhibit human rights reforms in the Middle East. The three panelists were Moataz El-Fegiery, executive director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Marc Schade-Poulsen, executive director of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, and Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division. POMED’s Executive Director Andrew Albertson moderated.

The panelists discussed, among other topics, the techniques authoritarian regimes employ to undermine the effectiveness of multilateral organizations. For a detailed summary of the discussion, click here.