Dear EU High Representative Borrell and Foreign Ministers of the EU member states, We are writing following credible revelations that Israeli NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware was used to hack the devices of …
Joint Letter: Congress Must Block Biden Administration’s Wrongful $650 Million Arm sale to Saudi Arabia or Risk Fueling Further U.S. Complicity in Rights Violations and Yemini Civilian Suffering
Dear Members of Congress, We, the undersigned non-governmental organizations, write in opposition to the Biden Administration’s plans to sell $650 million in air-to-air munitions to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. …
More than 100 trade unions, political parties and human rights groups send letter to EU in support of Palestinian civil society
Dear High Representative, As organisations based in Europe, we would like to alert you to the extremely serious situation created by the slander of the State of Israel against six …
Yemen: 40 CSOs call on German government and party representatives to enact a comprehensive ban on arms exports to Saudi-led coalition
40 civil society organizations- including the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies- have called for the extension and reinforcement of Germany’s ban on arms export and licensing to Saudi Arabia, …
Libya: Authorities must roll back repressive regulation on civil society and support new legal framework
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The undersigned organizations call upon the Libyan authorities to rescind the cybercrime law recently adopted by the Libya’s House of Representatives. The law would severely restrict freedom of expression, curtail …
Algeria: Ongoing pre-trial detention of Mr. Abderraouf Arslane
Présidence de la République Algérienne Démocratique et Populaire H.E. Abdelmadjid Tebboune Place Mohamed Seddik Benyahia, El Mouradia Alger, 16000, Algérie Your Excellency, The undersigned organisations are concerned about the ongoing …
Palestinian, Regional, and International Organizations Submit Urgent Appeal to UN Special Procedures on the Imminent Deportation of Human Rights Defender Salah Hammouri
On 27 October 2021, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Palestinian civil society, and international human rights organizations submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures …