DAWN’s Advocacy

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DAWN's Advocacy

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DAWN is proud to work with other civil society organizations to change the conduct of foreign actors, to stop supporting and enabling autocratic regimes in the Arab world.

DAWN

US: Impose Khashoggi Ban Sanctions on Saudi Agent Ibrahim Alhussayen

January 18, 2023

Advocacy

Nadeam Elshami, Lobbyist Pushing Weapons Flow to Egyptian Goverment

October 11, 2022

US President Joe Biden waves as he disembarks from Air Force One upon his arrival at the Franz Josef Strauss Airport in Munich, southern Germany on June 25, 2022, on the eve of the G7 summit. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

DAWN

U.S.: Six Measures President Biden Should Take During Trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia

July 12, 2022

Advocacy

Rights Groups Renew Call for Freedom of Waleed Abu al-Khair on Eighth Year Anniversary of His Arrest

April 15, 2022

Palestinian queue at stand-pipe to fill plastic containers with clean water in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip 04 September 2007. Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Haim Ramon today threatened to cut electricity, water and fuel supplies into Gaza if militants in the Hamas-ruled territory continued to fire rockets into Israel. AFP PHOTO /MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Advocacy

U.S.: Support Passage of Gaza Reporting Amendment to National Defense Authorization Act

November 16, 2021

Michael Petruzzello is the Managing Director of the international public relations firm Qorvis Communications. He is also a longtime accomplice of the Saudi Arabian government.

DAWN

Michael Petruzzello: Managing Director of Qorvis and Longtime Agent for Saudi Arabia

November 9, 2021

Palestinians gather at the Rafah boder crossing as they wait to travel into Egypt after the passage was opened for three days for humanitarian cases, in the southern Gaza Strip April 12, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB (Photo credit should read SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)

Advocacy

International Community Must Reject Designation of 6 Palestinian Organizations as "Terrorist"

October 29, 2021

Retired Egyptian journalist Tawfik Ghanem (center) was recently arrested on terrorism charges. (Photo: Flickr/Ahmed Abd El-Fatah)

Advocacy

Letter to Egypt Authorities: Release Imprisoned Journalist Tawfik Ghanem

October 27, 2021

Human-rights American activist and director of Human Rights Watch Middle East and North Africa, Sarah Leah Whitson, gives a press conferenceon October 21, 2010 in Tunis to present a report, entitled "The price of independence, silencing labor and student unions in Tunisia". AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID (Photo credit should read FETHI BELAID/AFP via Getty Images)

Dawn's Advocacy

DAWN to Lantos Commission: Middle East Governments Abuse Counterterrorism Laws to Repress Civil Society

October 26, 2021

"We need to defend the rights of the Arab people to have democracy in our own countries, in our own localities, but at the same time we must speak to foreign leaders, foreign powers and foreign parliamentarians."

Help promote human rights in the Middle East and North Africa

DAWN's Advocacy

Advocating for Change

US: Impose Khashoggi Ban Sanctions on Saudi Agent Ibrahim Alhussayen

Nadeam Elshami, Lobbyist Pushing Weapons Flow to Egyptian Goverment

U.S.: Six Measures President Biden Should Take During Trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia

Rights Groups Renew Call for Freedom of Waleed Abu al-Khair on Eighth Year Anniversary of His Arrest

U.S.: Support Passage of Gaza Reporting Amendment to National Defense Authorization Act

Michael Petruzzello: Managing Director of Qorvis and Longtime Agent for Saudi Arabia

International Community Must Reject Designation of 6 Palestinian Organizations as "Terrorist"

Letter to Egypt Authorities: Release Imprisoned Journalist Tawfik Ghanem

DAWN to Lantos Commission: Middle East Governments Abuse Counterterrorism Laws to Repress Civil Society

"We need to defend the rights of the Arab people to have democracy in our own countries, in our own localities, but at the same time we must speak to foreign leaders, foreign powers and foreign parliamentarians."

- Jamal Khashoggi, The New York Times, October 22, 2018

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