In Libya, judicial personnel are regularly targeted by assassination, kidnapping, arbitrary detainment, and armed attacks; this alarming phenomenon has been the backdrop against which Libya’s judiciary has operated since 2012 until now. Investigations into these violations are often stalled or never initiated, entrenching impunity and sowing instability under a critically undermined and fragmented legal landscape.
YEMEN: NEW REPORT UNCOVERS HORRIFIC CONDITIONS IN SECRET DETENTION CENTER
A damning new report by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and the Abductees Mothers Association (AMA) exposes a secret detention center in Aden operated by the Southern authorities in Yemen. Known as the Waddah Hall and once a civic center, the facility is part of a wider network of clandestine prisons that has proliferated across Yemen
Joint Submission on the Human Rights Situation of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: The 4th Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) – 2026
Download the report as a PDF filePrepared by a coalition of 15 human rights organizations and networks, this joint report reviews the human rights situation of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon …
Syria’s Transition Hangs in the Balance: CIHRS Report on Civil Society’s Struggle for a Voice
Download the report as a PDF fileThe Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) released a report today, titled ‘We can’t sit back and wait’: Syria’s transition through the eyes …
Libya: Further Deterioration Imminent in Absence of Urgent Reforms
Download the report as a PDF fileWorsening human rights violations and widening restrictions on public freedoms were underscored in a joint report for Libya’s Universal Period Review, submitted to the …