Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) have come together to organize a workshop entitled “Advancing Human Rights in Egypt: Recent Lessons, …
Egypt to answer to UN body for ongoing social rights crisis
As Egypt’s political crisis continues, its government will be asked to account to the United Nations later this week for what has been done to address the social injustices which …
Rights Organizations Warn that New Counter-Terrorism Law would Re-Establish Foundations of Police State and Intensify Violence and Terrorism
The undersigned rights organizations call upon the Egyptian cabinet to reject the counter-terrorism bill that was recently presented by the Interior Ministry. We warn that adoption of this bill would …
Human Rights Organizations Call on the Attorney General to Stop the Implementation of Imprisonment Penalty On the Nile University Student
The human rights organizations signed this statement today; demanding from the attorney general, Judge Hesham Barakat, to promptly rectify the legal mistakes happened in the trial of the Nile University …
New peaceful assembly bill undermines Egyptians’ right to meet, strike, stage sit-ins, and demonstrate, and legitimizes their murder
The undersigned organizations express their deep dismay with the proposed law on the regulation of the right to public meetings, processions, and peaceful demonstrations in public spaces, known in the …
46 Arabic Human Rights Organizations Demand Dropping All Charges against Karam Saber, and the Unfair Five-Year Sentence On Account of His Story Book “Where is Allah”
The undersigned human rights organizations said, “On Tuesday, 10 September, the writer and human rights activist Karam Saber will appear before the Beba Misdemeanor Court in Beni Suef governorate for …
the human rights crisis in Egypt
Interim government must cooperate with UN; Arab League must send a fact-finding mission
The undersigned Arab human rights organizations are closely and concernedly following the grave threats to human rights in Egypt following the spread of violence which has claimed the lives of …
In a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs:
CIHRS presents human rights recommendations for Egypt’s foreign policy
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) presented a memorandum to Dr. Nabil Fahmy, Minister of Foreign Affairs, containing recommendations to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the promotion …
Rights Organizations meets with UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs to discuss human rights developments in Egypt
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies hosted a meeting yesterday, August 21, between Mr. Jeffery Feltman, United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and 11 International and Egyptian Human Rights …
Non-peaceful assembly does not justify collective punishment
Rights groups condemn lethal violence against those in sit-in and terrorist acts of the Muslim Brotherhood The undersigned rights organizations condemn the use of excessive force yesterday by the security …