A critical analysis of the regional human rights schemes in the Middle East region, with particular focus on the Arab Charter of Human Rights, demonstrates elements of a budding human rights regime in the region. This chapter shows MENA human rights declarations to be more or less consistent and compatible with the international human rights system, unlike what is widely claimed. This provides a basis for moving from a purely ‘declaratory’ to a ‘promotion’ and ‘enforcement’ regime, and harmonizing existing schemes through a far-reaching, comprehensive Middle Eastern Convention and Court of Human Rights.