Yesterday, Wednesday 27 June, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) delivered an oral intervention before the 20th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) addressing the deteriorating …
Next target of Bashir’s historical repression:Attacks on peaceful protests in Sudan
Sudanese officials should fully respect the right of citizens to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, said the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies on Wednesday, June 27. Since June …
CIHRS re-launches its annual report: “Fractured Walls, New Horizons,” from Geneva
In a side event at the 20th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, CIHRS sponsored a re-launch of its annual report on the state of human rights …
The stakeholders should immediately act to save freedom rights in Iraq, about 40 institutions and mass medias threatened to close in a days
The undersigned associations and civil organizations calling for the necessity that the Iraqi ministry of Interior should revise its decisions of closing and harassing of nearly 40 media means under …
Egypt: CIHRS expresses concern over stripping the president of core powers; demands that president-elect respect human rights
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) delivered an oral intervention before the 20th session of the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council, addressing in it the human rights situation …
Oman: End the Detention of Women Human Rights Defenders
On 19 June 2012, due to their deteriorating health, women human rights defenders Basma Al-Keumy, lawyer, and Basma Al-Rajehy, writer and TV broadcaster, ended their hunger strike aimed at their …
Call for Joint Action on Bahrain at the 20th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
Joint NGO Letter to State Delegations at the United Nations Human Rights Council: Your Excellency, Since February 2011 the human rights situation in Bahrain has witnessed a severe deterioration. Widespread …
CIHRS responds to Egyptian government’s claims before UN: Egyptian government intentionally misleads international public opinion; CIHRS intervention stresses that liberties are not “second-class” rights
A report submitted to the 20th session of the UN Human Rights Council, currently convened in Geneva, by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Peaceful Assembly and of …
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Freedom of Assembly and Association: Countering Persecution and Pushback on Civil Society
Friday, 22 June 2012, 12h00 – 14h00 Palais des Nations, Room XXV The freedoms of peaceful assembly and association are fundamental to civil society and citizen action but continue to …
Call to release freedom of expression defenders, held incommunicado in Syria
The undersigned rights groups from around the world are seriously concerned about human rights defenders, journalists, writers and bloggers in Syria who have been subjected to enforced disappearance, which has …