Inès Osman is a French-Algerian human rights lawyer, and the co-founder and director of MENA Rights Group, a Geneva-based legal advocacy NGO defending victims of human rights abuses and promoting fundamental rights and freedoms in the Middle East and North Africa region.

In the previous episode, Ines explained how the UAE’s Anti-Terrorism legislation is used to prosecute and jail human rights activists who argue for political reform under the “vague umbrella of national security or counterterrorism”. In today's episode (second part of the interview), we will discuss the role of Non-governmental organizations and the international community in tackling human rights issues in the United Arab Emirates.