Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CHIRS) organized a seminar on “The Greater Middle East Project and the Arab Civil Society” yesterday. The purpose of the seminar was to discuss …
Priorities and Mechanisms of Reform in the Arab World 5 -7 July 2004
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), the Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights (EOHR) and International Politics magazine held a conference in Cairo from July 5th to 7th on …
Put human rights on top of the agenda for reforms in the Arab region
Human Rights NGOs urge the EU and USA to take into account the views of civil society in their initiative for reforms in the Arab region At a press conference …
Civil Society and Reform: The EU-US Summit
A press conference held in Brussels this morning called upon the EU-US Summit held in Dublin to take into account that any international initiative for reform should invoke the real …
Having failed to adopt a plan for reform: The Arab Summit welcomes External Reform! Statement by 34 NGOs from 14 Arab States
The hereunder signatory institutions express their sorrow regarding the meager outcomes of the Arab summit regarding Arab issues, especially the issue of political reform. The institutions confirm that the results …
Would the Arab Order Respond to External Pressure After Failing to Present an Arab Vision for Reform?!
Jamal Abdul Gawad: Introduced reform cases at the Summit that constituted a radical change, even if presented for the sake of manipulation. Osama Saraya: The Egyptian intellectuals stood against change …
CIHRS Calls for Downfalling Arab Immunity for American war criminals instead of oral maneuvering denunciation.
Bahey El Din Hassan, director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), sent a letter yesterday to Mr. Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the Arab League, asking for …
Bush Statements, not enough to deter Torture Crimes
In an attempt to contain the furious reactions regarding the shameful crimes of torturing the Iraqi prisoners of war and detainees inside Abu Gharib prison, US president, George W. Bush …
CIHRS backs the UN Stance towards the Human Crisis in Darfur
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) welcomed and supported the UN utterances and actions towards the developments in Darfur, Sudan. Ten years after the genocide in Rwanda, the …
It is not a matter of Where or When …The Arab Summit should Take a Serious Stance towards Political Reform
A press conference held today in Cairo called upon the new Arab Summit to tackle the issue of political reform in the Arab world seriously. The speakers emphasized that the …
CIHRS Calls the League of Arab States to Adopt the UN Draft Arab Chapter for Human Rights without any Amendments The Draft is Considered a Victory to Civil Society and to Reform trends within the League
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) expresses, on behalf of 36 human rights organizations in the Arab World, fervent welcome to the draft Arab Charter of Human Rights, …
Which Arab Charter on Human Rights
After being lately updated by the permanent committee for Human Rights, the Arab charter on human rights project has been the core of a symposium organized by the Cairo Institute …
A drawback to the calls for reform The Arab convention on human rights materializes the colonial logic towards people: A declaration from 36 human rights organizations
On the 21st of December 2003, the delegation of experts from the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights hosted Mr. Bahey eldeen Hasan, the head of Cairo Institute for …
Are the Arabs at a lower rank than other peoples of the world?!
On the 10th of December 2003, 55 years have passed on the universal declaration of human rights, the first international legal document to be concerned with human rights all over …
Second independence: Towards an initiative for political reform in the Arab world
This pamphlet includes the recommendations of the CIHRS 8th Regional Forum of the Human Rights Movement (First Civil Forum parallel to the Arab Summit) and the relevant press releases. The …