Religious and Freedom of Expression

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) published a new book, in English, which contains thorough reports on the activities accomplished in the program on Freedom of Opinion and Expression across Cultures. This program, which is an initiative from the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies in collaboration with the Euro-Mediterranean Network for Human Rights, Article 19 Organization, the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights and the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies, lasted for six months with the cooperation of a number of Arab and International organizations.

The book contains a report on the first workshop, which was held in Copenhagen from the 1st to the 5th of November 2006 and attended by a number of Egyptian and Danish journalists and activists. The book also encloses a report of the second workshop, held in Cairo from the 6th to the 8th of December 2006 and which was attended by a number of media professionals, artists, writers, activists and scholars from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Denmark and France.