This morning, army and police troops in Bahrain, supported by the Saudi and Emirati forces, began a brutal, wide-scale crackdown on the legitimate aspirations of the Bahraini people for far-reaching …
CIHRS Calls on the Security Council to Impose a No-Fly Zone on Libya
United Nations Human Rights Council: 16th Session Item 4: General Debate- Follow up on Special Session of Libya Oral Intervention Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) 14 March, 2011 …
Side Event / Reprisals against Persons Cooperating with the UN: Towards a Strengthened Institutional Response
Reprisals against Persons Cooperating with the UN: Towards a Strengthened Institutional Response Side Event during the UN Human Rights Council’s 16th Session Wednesday, 16 March 2011 Organised by …
UN HRC: Over 100 Organisations Urge Council to Reject “Defamation of Religions” and Protect Freedom of Expression
Geneva 10.03.11: More than one hundred civil society organisations from around the world have signed a letter urging Member States at the sixteenth session of the Human Rights Council …
Incitement to Discrimination, Hostility or Violence Evolution of the Recent Debate on “Defamation of Religions”
Side Event during the UN Human Rights Council’s 16 th SessionFriday, 11 March 2011 Organised by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights (CIHRS), Forum Asia, Article 19, …
Side event/ Incitement to Discrimination, Hostility or Violence Evolution of the Recent Debate on “Defamation of Religions”
16th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council (28 February – 25 March 2011) Incitement to Discrimination, Hostility or Violence Evolution of the Recent Debate on “Defamation …
Letter from Civil Society Organizations to State Representatives: “Defamation” & “denigration” of religions at the 16th Session of the UNHRC
Geneva, 9 March 2011 Excellency, We are writing to you to strongly urge your government to actively engage in the negotiations on the resolution on “combating defamation of religions”/”combating …
Democratic Transformation and Human Rights in the Arab World: Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and Beyond
Democratic Transformation and Human Rights in the Arab World: Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and Beyond Side Event during the UN Human Rights Council’s 16 th SessionMonday 7 March …
Side event/ Democratic Transformation and Human Rights in the Arab World
Democratic Transformation and Human Rights in the Arab World:Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and Beyond Monday 7 MarchRoom XXI (21), 3:30-5pm Organised by the Cairo Institute for Human …
Side Event during the UN Human Rights Council’s 16th Session Geneva
Side Event during the UN Human Rights Council’s 16th Session GenevaAccountability or Impunity? The Goldstone Report and Israeli and Palestinian Investigations Two Years On 4 March 2011 …
Side Event on “Accountability or Impunity? The Goldstone Report and Israeli and Palestinian Investigations Two Years On”
INVITATION TO A SIDE EVENT4 March 2011, 13:00 – 15:00, Room XXI “Accountability or Impunity? The Goldstone Report and Israeli and Palestinian Investigations Two Years On” …
Side Event on the Evolution of Freedom of Association and Assembly
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) in collaboration with the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation against …
Open Letter by Arab Organisations to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the European Union (EU) and the League of Arab States (LAS)
As leaders of over 200 organisations across the Middle East and North Africa, we urge the United Nations Security Council, the EU and the Arab League to take immediate …
Oral Intervention by CIHRS at the United Nations Human Rights Council- 15th Special Session- on Libya
Oral Intervention 25 February, 2011 Delivered by: Laila Matar (CIHRS, UN advocacy representative) The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies is encouraged by the statement of the Organization of Islamic …
General Assembly Should Suspend Libya’s Membership Rights
(Geneva) – The president of the UN Human Rights Council, Ambassador Sihasak Phuangketkeow of Thailand, should urgently carry out the council’s timely decision to establish an independent international commission …