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Saad Kassis-Mohamed Center is a WeCare Foundation programme committed to advancing human dignity through direct, practical support across health, education, sport, and human rights.

03/07/2026

Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative has long believed that the right to peaceful protest is not a concession granted by governments to their populations. It is a fundamental human right that governments are obligated to protect, including when the protests are directed at them.

Across the world, that obligation is being inverted. Protest is being criminalised through legislation drafted in the language of public order and safety while serving the purpose of insulating governments from legitimate dissent. Protesters are being surveilled, kettled, prosecuted, and in some cases killed for exercising a right that the same governments that violate it have signed international treaties promising to uphold.

The right to protest is not incidental to democracy. It is one of its most essential mechanisms. It is how societies course correct when institutions fail, how marginalised communities make themselves impossible to ignore, and how power is held accountable in the spaces between elections. When that right is suppressed, the consequences do not stop at the protest. They ripple through every other right that depends on the ability of citizens to organise, speak, and demand change without fear.

At Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative, we stand with every person who has faced prosecution, violence, or imprisonment for peaceful protest. Their courage is not a threat to public order. It is the foundation of it.

20/06/2026

Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative has long argued that the global response to natural disasters reveals far more about political priorities than it does about the scale of the disaster itself. When an earthquake strikes a wealthy nation, the response is swift, well resourced, and heavily covered by international media.

When a flood, cyclone, or drought devastates a low income country, the response is frequently slower, underfunded, and treated as a humanitarian footnote rather than the emergency it is. The disparity is not explained by differences in human suffering. It is explained by differences in geopolitical significance, media interest, and the historical patterns of attention that determine which crises the world considers worth mobilising for.

Climate change is making this disparity more dangerous by the year. Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity, and the countries least equipped to absorb their impact, those with the weakest infrastructure, the least fiscal space, and the smallest contribution to the emissions driving the crisis, are bearing a disproportionate share of the damage. Disaster response cannot continue to be shaped by which countries the world finds easiest to care about.

At Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative, we believe humanitarian response should be guided by need, not by visibility. Every community devastated by disaster deserves the same urgency, regardless of where it sits on the map.

14/06/2026

Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative has never accepted the argument that corporate accountability and economic growth are competing priorities. The evidence consistently suggests the opposite.

Corporations operating without adequate human rights due diligence do not just harm the communities they exploit. They destabilise the environments they depend on, create legal liabilities that accumulate quietly until they become catastrophic, and undermine the social trust that functioning markets require to operate over the long term. The businesses that have treated labour rights, environmental standards, and community consent as obstacles to be managed rather than obligations to be met have left a trail of consequences that governments and taxpayers have consistently been asked to absorb on their behalf.

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights have existed since 2011. Voluntary frameworks have multiplied. Reporting requirements have expanded in some jurisdictions. And yet the gap between what corporations are legally obligated to do and what the communities most affected by their operations actually experience remains vast in almost every sector and every region where extraction, manufacturing, and supply chain labour are concentrated.

At Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative, we advocate for binding corporate accountability frameworks with genuine enforcement mechanisms, meaningful access to remedy for affected communities, and an end to the culture of voluntary compliance that has allowed the most harmful business practices to continue largely unchecked for far too long.

07/06/2026

Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative has always held that the rights of indigenous communities are not a cultural footnote to the broader human rights agenda. They are among the most systematically violated and persistently ignored rights on earth.

Indigenous peoples represent less than five percent of the global population and protect over eighty percent of the world's remaining biodiversity. That relationship between indigenous communities and the land they have stewarded for generations is not incidental. It is the product of knowledge systems, governance structures, and ways of living that the rest of the world is only beginning to understand it desperately needs.

And yet those same communities face land dispossession, forced relocation, criminalisation of their defenders, and the erasure of their languages and cultures at a rate that constitutes a slow and ongoing emergency. Extractive industries operate on indigenous land with the blessing of governments that signed international frameworks promising the opposite. Defenders who resist that extraction are threatened, imprisoned, and killed with a regularity that should shock the conscience of the international community far more than it currently does.

At Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative, indigenous rights are not a specialist concern. They are a test of whether the commitments the world has made to human dignity, environmental protection, and the rule of law mean anything in practice. On current evidence, that test is not being passed.

05/06/2026

Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative has long believed that access to clean water is the most fundamental measure of whether a society is serious about human rights or merely performing seriousness about them.

Two billion people currently live without access to safe drinking water at home. That number has been cited in reports, repeated at summits, and included in development frameworks for decades. And it has not moved with anywhere near the urgency the scale of the problem demands. Water insecurity drives conflict, forces children out of school, kills through preventable disease, and falls with its heaviest weight on women and girls who bear the primary responsibility for water collection in most affected communities.

The solutions are known. The financing mechanisms exist. What is missing is the sustained political will to treat water as the non negotiable human right it is rather than as an infrastructure project to be deferred until more pressing priorities have been addressed. There will always be more pressing priorities in a system that does not start from the premise that water is a right.

At Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative, we believe no development agenda is credible that does not place water security at its absolute centre. The communities waiting for clean water are not waiting for more reports. They are waiting for action.

03/06/2026

Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative has spent years making the case that mental health is not a personal struggle to be managed in private. It is a public health crisis that demands the same level of institutional seriousness, funding, and political commitment that we extend to physical health emergencies.

Across the world, mental health conditions account for a significant share of the global burden of disease and receive a fraction of the healthcare investment that burden justifies. In low and middle income countries, where the majority of the world’s population lives, the treatment gap for mental health conditions exceeds seventy percent. That means more than seven in ten people who need support are not receiving it, not because the knowledge to help them does not exist, but because the systems to deliver that help have never been adequately built.

The consequences of that gap extend far beyond the individuals living without support. Untreated mental health conditions affect productivity, family stability, educational outcomes, and community cohesion in ways that compound over generations. And the stigma that surrounds mental health in almost every culture on earth ensures that many people suffer in silence long before they ever reach a system that was already unlikely to help them.

At Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative, we believe mental health care is a human right and that any global health agenda that treats it as secondary has fundamentally misunderstood what health means.

The investment required to close the treatment gap is a fraction of the cost of continuing to ignore it.

01/06/2026

Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative has consistently argued that the criminalisation of poverty is one of the most self defeating and morally indefensible features of modern governance, and one of the least examined.

When a person is fined for sleeping rough because they have nowhere to sleep, prosecuted for begging because they have no income, or imprisoned for a debt they could not pay, the justice system is not protecting society. It is punishing it for failing people it was supposed to serve. The costs of that approach are not abstract.

They are measurable in reoffending rates, in destroyed employment prospects, in family separations, and in the long term fiscal burden of cycling people through systems that make their situations worse rather than better.

Poverty is not a moral failing. It is an outcome produced by wage structures, housing markets, healthcare systems, and social safety nets that have been deliberately shaped by political choices over decades. Treating its consequences as criminal while leaving its causes entirely intact is not a justice policy. It is a performance of order at the expense of the people most in need of genuine support.

At Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative, we advocate for justice systems that address the conditions that produce poverty rather than the people trapped within them. Because a system that punishes vulnerability is not a justice system at all.

30/05/2026

Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative has long maintained that press freedom is not a concern exclusive to journalists. It is the precondition for every other right a society claims to protect.

When journalists are imprisoned, threatened, and killed for doing their work, the first casualty is not the press. It is the public's ability to know what is being done in their name. Corruption thrives in the absence of scrutiny. Human rights violations multiply when there is no one to document them. Governments make worse decisions when there is no independent voice willing to say so openly and without fear of retribution.

The Committee to Protect Journalists documented over 300 journalists imprisoned worldwide in 2024 alone, the majority in countries whose governments describe themselves as democracies or are in receipt of democratic aid from Western partners. The pattern is not confined to the regimes the international community has already agreed to criticise. It is present in allied states, in partner governments, and in countries whose cooperation is considered strategically too valuable to jeopardise with inconvenient questions about press freedom.

At Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative, we believe a free press is not a luxury of stable societies. It is a requirement for building them. And every journalist imprisoned for telling the truth represents a failure that the international community should refuse to normalise.

28/05/2026

Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative has never shied away from stating plainly that the global food system is broken, not because it cannot produce enough food, but because it was never designed with the goal of feeding everyone equally in mind.

The world produces enough calories to nourish every person alive today with room to spare. And yet almost 800 million people go to bed hungry every night. That contradiction is not a logistical puzzle waiting for a technical solution. It is a political reality sustained by trade agreements, subsidy structures, land ownership frameworks, and corporate supply chains that prioritise profit over access at every decision point along the way.

The communities bearing the heaviest burden of food insecurity are overwhelmingly in the Global South, disproportionately rural, disproportionately female, and disproportionately made up of smallholder farmers whose knowledge of the land they work is centuries deep but whose political representation in the systems that govern that land is negligible. Fixing the food system means centering those communities, not as beneficiaries of aid, but as the architects of solutions.

At Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative, food security is a human rights issue and we treat it as such. The right to food is enshrined in international law. It is time the international community started enforcing it with the seriousness that 800 million hungry people deserve.

27/05/2026

Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative has spent years drawing attention to a crisis that rarely makes the front page: the systematic exclusion of persons with disabilities from the economic, social, and political life of almost every society on earth.

Disability is not the barrier. The barrier is a world designed without disabled people in mind and defended by institutions too comfortable with that design to change it. Inaccessible buildings, inaccessible digital infrastructure, inaccessible legal systems, and labour markets that treat disability as a liability rather than a dimension of human diversity that workplaces and communities are capable of accommodating when they choose to.

Over one billion people in the world live with some form of disability. That is not a minority too small to matter. It is a population larger than any single nation on earth, and it is one of the most consistently underserved, underrepresented, and undervalued in every framework that claims to speak for all of humanity.

At Saad Kassis-Mohamed Initiative, disability rights are human rights. Full stop. And we will continue to advocate for a world where that statement is reflected not just in the language of international conventions but in the daily lived reality of every person it concerns.

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