SOURCE: IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG) – 3 October 2011 – Free expression defenders are celebrating Thursday’s decision by a military court to drop charges against a Tunisian …
UN Human Rights Council Concludes its 18th Session: Arab Spring turns into “winter of discontent” at the United Nations . UN Rights Council shines spot-light on Middle East, but does not provide protection for democracy activists
In the shadow of brutal crackdowns and severe repressive attacks launched by entrenched autocrats against pro-democracy movements throughout the Arab world, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council began its …
To Permanent Representatives of Members of the UN Human Rights Council , The Yemen People Deserve Better
Your Excellency, The exceedingly weak response to the rapidly deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in Yemen by the United Nations Human Rights Council is a clear failure by the …
Palestine…the right to self determination: a guaranteed right, not a shameful request
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) harshly criticized the double standards that Characterized the ways in which the US and other countries treat Palestine in the international …
Oral Intervention to the 18th Session of the Human Rights Council on Sudan’s Universal Periodic Review delivered by Dr. El Baqir Al Afif, director of Al-Khatim Adlan Centre for Enlightenment & Human Development in cooperation with CIHRS
Thank you Madame President The humanitarian crisis in Sudan continues & escalates. Barely a week after its UPR, on May 21st, the GoS led an all out …
Text of the Oral Intervention delivered by the Cairo Institute in cooperate with FIDH and SAF to the UN Human Rights Council on the human rights situation in Yemen and Sudan
Delivered by: Ms. Amal Basha Thank you Madam President, CIHRS, FIDH and Sisters Arab Forum for Human Rights (SAF) urgently calls on the Human Rights Council to convene a Special …
CIHRS Side Event at the HRC: Human Rights in Sudan and South Sudan after the Partition
On the 22 September, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) held a Side Event in Geneva during the proceeding of the 18th session of the UN Human …
The case of crimes against humanity and the need for justice Syria, Libya, and Yemen discussed at a side event to HRC 18
Yesterday, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), in cooperation with Haitham Maleh Foundation for the Defense of Syrian Human Rights Defenders, Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL), …
“Day of Rage” UN Rights Council takes up situations in Libya, Sudan, Syria and Yemen
(Geneva- 19 September, 2011) Today, human rights defenders from throughout the Arab region converged on the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (the Council), during its 18th Session, to respond …
Oral Intervention presented by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies in cooperation with the Haytham Maleh Foundation at the 18th Human Rights Council session in Geneva.
. Thank you Madame President, My name is Haithem Maleh. I am a Syrian lawyer who has worked for the realization of human rights in …