A CIHRS field study indicates:• The Security bodies hold sway over civil action under the umbrella of the Ministry of Social Solidarity.• Legal pressures hinder popular initiatives for the support of the …
Press Conference on the release of the first annual report published by CIHRS on the human rights in the Arab World
From Exporting Terrorism to Exporting RepressionAnnual Report on Human Rights in the Arab World 2008Press Conference The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies is pleased to invite you to attend …
Egyptian Human Rights Organizations Condemn Unfair Verdict for the Imprisonment of Ibrahim Eissa
Press Statement The Egyptian human rights organizations signatories to this joint statement express their condemnation of the judgment passed yesterday by the Court of Appeals ordaining the imprisonment of the …
Punishing Saad El Din Ibrahim
Punishing Saad El Din IbrahimA New Ring in the Chain of Opinion Trials Press Release The Egyptian human rights organizations express their deep concern over the ruling rendered recently …
Letter from 18 Rights Group to the Minister of Interior on Mass Deportation of Eriterian Asylum Seekers
Your Excellency, Minister Habib Ibrahim El Adly, We are writing to express our concern about the ongoing mass deportations of Eritrean asylum-seekers from Egypt back to Eritrea. While we …
“Sawaseya” chief editor discusses problems facing the human rights promotion in Egypt, with a group of Danish students
On April 9, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies received a visit from a Danish delegation, based upon an invitation from the Danish embassy in Cairo, the delegation constituted …
Contempt of Religions should not be used as a pretext to expropriate freedom of opinion and expression
Press Release The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies CIHRS and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights EIPR have jointly made an oral intervention before the United Nations Human Rights …
Why is sectarian violence more frequent nowadays?
The American University in Cairo The School of Humanities and Social Sciences Cordially invites you to a debate on Why sectarian violence is more frequent nowadays. Organized by Mona Makram-EbeidMember of …
What did the Egyptian citizen Abu Halawa do to exclude him from El Horeyah Association ?
“Abu Halawa” is an Egyptian citizen. He is 26 years old. He graduated from college and did not find work in his village: El Horeyah. And so he devoted himself …
EMHRN’s Working Group on Migration and Asylum Public Meeting in Cairo
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) in cooperation with its member organisation in Egypt ,The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), held a public meeting for EMHRN’s Working Group …