United Nations Human Rights Council: Session 15 Item 2: High Commissioner’s Update- Oral Intervention Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) 13 September, 2010 Delivered by: Laila Matar Thank you …
Reprisals against Human Rights Defenders in Egypt and Bahrain Denounced at the UN
United Nations Human Rights Council: Session 15Item 2: High Commissioner’s Update- Oral InterventionCairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)13 September, 2010Delivered by: Laila Matar Thank you Mr. President, …
Eleven rights organizations: free parliamentary and presidential elections are impossible when state institutions are not impartial
The Forum of Independent Human Rights Organizations strongly condemns the repression, harassment, and intimidation of political activists who have demanded guarantees of transparency and integrity in the coming parliamentary …
Re- Engaging the Guarantors to the Sudanese Comprehensive Peace Agreement
The experiences of recent years have demonstrated that focusing on one part of Sudan at the expenseof another complicates the situation in both. Focusing too narrowly on the challenges …
UN Rights Body Ends With a Whimper: On the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the United Nations Human Rights Council struggles to address rights violations
The latest session of the UN Human Rights Council, which ended on June 18, has highlighted the political malaise that has made it difficult for the world’s preeminent …
Sudan Rights Defenders: ‘UN Rights Body Must Not Abandon Sudan’
(Geneva, 10 June) Our organisations regret that the Human Rights Council has decided to defer its discussion of the human rights situation in Sudan to its fifteenth session in …
Joint Press Release: Egypt: Rights Groups Expose Systemic Violations by Government Before UN Rights Council – Government Minister Pledges Mechanism to Monitor Implementation of UN Recommendations
Joint Press Release Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence Studies, Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Centre for Trade Unions and Workers Services, …
An oral intervention presented to the United Nations 14th Human Rights Council: CIHRS calls on the United Nations to conduct immediate investigations over the attacks on the humanitarian aid flotilla
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies called upon the United Nations to conduct immediate investigations that would comply by international law standards in relation to the appalling attacks …
UN Committee against Torture deeply concerned about attacks against Human Rights Defenders in Yemen
(Geneva – 25 May 2010) The UN Committee against Torture (CAT), which reviewed the situation of torture in Yemen on 6 May, expressed deep concern about allegations of widespread …
UN expert committee deeply concerned about routine use of Torture in Syria
(19 May, 2010 – Geneva, Damascus) The UN Committee against Torture (CAT), after its first review of Syria, has concluded that there are “numerous, ongoing, and consistent allegations concerning …