Four years after Egypt’s first UPR:
The Forum of Independent Egyptian Human Rights NGOs Submits Its Report on Human Rights in Egypt to the UN’s Universal Periodic Review
The Forum of Independent Egyptian Human Rights NGOs, which is made up of 19 rights organizations, presented to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights its report on …
CITIZENSHIP IN POST-AWAKENING EGYPT POWER SHIFTS AND CONFLICTING PERCEPTIONS
This report links Egypt’s shifting political phases to debates more specifically about citizenship rights. It offers a general overview of Egypt’s recent political trajectory, before unpacking the various dimensions of …
Report monitoring the referendum coverage of 20 media outlets CIHRS:
Media joins the chorus of public mobilization
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies issued its second interim report on the performance of 20 media outlets during coverage of the referendum on …
New CIHRS report: Opportunities remain for cooperation between civil society and the League of Arab States
On Monday, October 28, 2013, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) issued a new thematic report on the mechanisms of cooperation between Arab civil society and the League …
International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance
As technologies that facilitate State surveillance of communications advance, States are failing to ensure that laws and regulations related to communications surveillance adhere to international human rights and adequately protect …
CIHRS documents acts of reprisals carried out against defenders from the Gulf region for cooperating with the UN
Today, 12 March 2013, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) released a report entitled “Cut off from the World: Systematic Reprisals against Human Rights Defenders in the Gulf …
Will the Ittihadiyya clashes become a routine model to settle
?political disputes in Egypt
CIHRS report documents testimonies of the wounded and demonstrators from both sides On 5and 6 December, bloody clashes took place in the vicinity of the Ittihadiyya Presidential Palace in …