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 …
Yemen’s Torture Record Reviewed by UN Experts
(12May, 2010 – Geneva) After being one of only two countries to ever fail to show up to its review at the 43rd session of the UN Committee against …
Press Release: UN Committee Against Torture Reviewed Syria’s Record for the First Time
(10 May, 2010 – Cairo) The widespread use of torture by security agencies in Syria, not only against political prisoners and detainees, but also against ordinary criminal detainees, is highlighted …
A Step on preventing impunity for war crimes committed in Gaza;
Palestine at the UN Rights Council: Hope and Hypocrisy A Step on preventing impunity for war crimes committed in Gaza; United States continues its constant support to Israel On Thursday March …
Fifty-three Rights Groups call on UN to help stop silencing of human rights activists, journalists and bloggers in Bahrain
Ms. Navanethem PillayUnited Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)Palais des Nations, 1211 Genève 10 -SwitzerlandEmail: [email protected]: +41-22-917-9000 / Fax: …
Press Release -UN Human Rights Council: 47 Human Rights Organizations Urge States to Reject Draft Resolutions which Threaten to Undermine Freedom of Expression
Forty seven international, regional and national civil society organizations – including ARTICLE 19, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights – have …
Geneva: Human Rights in Egypt- Counter Terrorism Law and the price of “stability”
On 9/3/2010 as a side event to the thirteenth meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council, CIHRS, jointly with others, held an event titled “human right in Egypt- …
HRC Revives Freedom of Expression But Imposes “Traditional” Limitations on Rights & Allows Impunity for Gaza War Crimes
UN Takes One Step Forward and Two Big Leaps Back:UN Human Rights Council Revives Freedom of Expression-But Imposes “Traditional” Limitations on Rights and Allows Impunity for Gaza War Crimes …