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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies strongly condemns the Yemeni army’s shelling in the Lawdar district in the Abyan province, Southern Yemen, which has severely harmed the civilian population located there.
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The undersigned organizations wish to express their grave concern for the deteriorating human rights situation in Bahrain. Just a few days ago, the King himself, joined by the prime minister and interior minister, issued a sternly worded threat against political activists and human rights defenders
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Bahey eldin Hassan, the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, met with Isolde Moylan, the Irish ambassador in Cairo, at the offices of the CIHRS. The meeting, also attended by Garrett O’Brien, the second secretary at the Irish embassy, and Alexandra Dan, the program development officer at the CIHRS, focused on the CIHRS’s assessment of political developments related to human rights in Egypt, Sudan, and Palestine, where Moylan also serves as ambassador.
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The Forum of Independent Human Rights Organizations strongly condemns the repression, harassment, and intimidation of political activists who have demanded guarantees of transparency and integrity in the coming parliamentary and presidential elections and called for constitutional amendments that provide for competitive and free presidential elections.
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Bahieddin Hassan, director of the Cairo Centre for Human Rights, told the Weekly that if the bill gains approval it will heat the debate in Washington on elections in Egypt.
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Yesterday, August 4, the 17th student seminar on human rights concluded with an open debate on democracy and human rights in Egypt, featuring Bahey eldin Hassan, the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies; Judge Ashraf al-Baroudi, the president of the Court of Appeals; and Sinai activist Musaad Abu Fagr, recently released from detention. Thirty participants, chosen from over 150 applicants, took part in the seminar where they learned about current human rights issues on the international, regional, and local levels. Most of the participants were Egyptian university students.
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CIHRS looking to hire media monitors, to track coverage of the upcoming parliamentary elections through various newspaper and television outlets. This project is supported by major international donors, includes fully supported training on how to be a media monitor, and requires flexibility and immediate availability on the part of the monitor.
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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies organized a parallel conference for the seventh Forum for the Future summit, to be held in Qatar in November 2010. Titled “Horizons of Political Reform in the Arab World,” the conference was attended by representatives of civil society in the Arab world, their peers from Europe and the US, and academics, media experts, and journalists. The conference was held on July 27 and 28, 2010, in Cairo, with support from the Middle East Partnership Initiative.
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On the 58th anniversary of the July 23 revolution, Bahey eldin Hassan, the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, said, “The political system established by the July revolution did not come to an end with the death of its founder, President Gamal Abd al-Nasser.
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For several decades, Egypt has lived under an authoritarian political regime whose roots date back to the 1952 revolution, when a group of army officers--who came to be called the Free Officers--overthrew the quasi-liberal monarchy that had ruled Egypt for 30 years.
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CAIRO: Over the past two decades, the Egyptian political playground has experienced various political and social forces that helped create a platform for people to express their opinions freely without any restrictions.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2010 – WASHINGTON, D.C.
A year after President Obama called for a new beginning in U.S. relations with the Muslim world, it remains unclear the role human rights play in Washington’s policies in the Arab region. While the recently released National Security Strategy includes the promotion of democracy and human rights abroad as a core foreign policy value, there are lingering questions as to how this will be translated into action.
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The latest session of the UN Human Rights Council, which ended on june 18 , has highlighted the political malaise that has made it difficult for the world’s preeminent human rights body to carry out its primary purpose of addressing rights violations throughout the world.
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