On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Algerian League for Human Rights revealed the government’s infringement of the trade unions rights and freedoms, especially during the labour strikes in Algeria this year, including the strike of resident doctors for more than nine months, as well as education and higher education sectors, ports and “Air Algérie”.
The Algerian League for Human Rights’ report criticized the authorities' denial of the right to peaceful protest, which is constitutionally guaranteed. It considered that "a right depends on the authorities’ decision, which prevented and banned many protests, and suppressed a lot of vigils through its intervention to end the strike".
The report condemned the government's enactment of the Associations Law of 2012 and considered it to be a law that "tightens the control of civil society groups and grants the authorities the ability to refuse their registration or financing , as well as the suspension of their activities and their dissolution," pointing out that many articles in this law are contrary to Algeria's commitments, under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which protects the rights of the freedom of expression and assembly and which is used to restrict the activities of the civil society groups.
The report stressed the growing number of arrests among journalists, criticizing the authorities’ tightening on the press freedom and the freedom of expression. It also pointed that “the authorities are not trying to withdraw their tightening on the press, under the pretext of maintaining security and stability. In fact, the media landscape has become bleak in Algeria, as the television channels, and newspaper are oppressed and the authority is using advertising for its own interest”.
The report addressed also the issue of the decline of the health services, “the failure of the medical assistance system for low-income people, the scarcity of many chronic disease medicines, the return of the so-called poverty diseases, the increasing of child abuse and exploitation”. In fact, more than 13 000 cases of assault and violence were recorded in 2017, with the exacerbation of the phenomenon of school dropout, as Algeria annually records about 350 thousand of school dropout cases.
The report pointed out that Algeria has not reached any improvements regarding the achievement of equality between men and women, ranking 127nd in 2017, according to the World Economic Forum report, in addition to the phenomenon of violence against women, according to the security’s statistics during the first nine months of 2018, which revealed that more than 7061 women were subject to violence.
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