The statements of the executive authority representatives regarding the new Students’ Charter, which ought to be issued during the current academic year, renewed fears that the framers of the new …
A “Political” Civil War in Egypt! ( A Position Paper)
“In its latest statement to the public opinion, the Syndicate of Journalists considered the sentences of imprisonment passed collectively against four editors in chief as a “declaration of war against …
A disturbing deterioration on all fronts
The Executive Committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network is concerned at the noticeable deterioration of the human rights situation in the whole Euromed region. It denounces in particular the …
Israel/Lebanon: Israeli Indiscriminate Attacks Killed Most Civilians:No Evidence of Widespread Hezbollah ‘Shielding’
Israel’s indiscriminate airstrikes, not Hezbollah’s shielding as claimed by Israeli officials, caused most of the approximately 900 civilian deaths in Lebanon during the July-August 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, …
Sudan : Women and Children Must Be Protected from Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, Says High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Government of the Sudan must protect women and children from sexual and gender-based violence, says a new report from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights that …
A final report : “What is the Future of the Movements for Democratic Change in the Arab World?”
Cairo Institute for Human Rights (CIHR) convened a workshop titled “What is the Future of Movements for Democratic Change in the Arab World?” during the 19th-20th of May 2007. Sixty …
Free Kian: Letter From the Arab World
This is a letter from academics, intellectuals, writers, and activists from the Arab world in the fields of human rights, education, culture, and environment:Kian Tajbakhsh’s detention is a flagrant and …
Press Conference: The findings of the mission to the refugee camps in eastern Chad
The Cairo Institute of Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) is honored to invite you to the press conference on the findings of the FIDH, and partners, mission to the Darfur refugee …
In interventions before the Fifth Session of the UN Human Rights Council: CIHRS Hails International Trial of War Criminals in Darfur and Calls for Protection of Human Rights Mechanisms at the UNHRC
A delegation representing the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights participated in the proceedings of the Fifth Session of the United Nations Human …