On the 14th of September, the United Nations Human Rights Council held a high level panel to discuss how to provide protection and promote the rights of peaceful protestors. The …
18th session of the UN Human Rights Council opens in Geneva. CIHRS presents human right situation in the region through a series of written and oral interventions and side events
Today, 12 September, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) inaugurates its 18th session in its Geneva headquarters, which is scheduled to continue until 30 September. This session is of particular …
Director of Cairo Institute for Human Rights meets with UN High Commissioner to discuss human rights in the MENA region, and presents recommendations of Arab civil society
This morning, Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Mr. Bahey el-din Hassan, met with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay to discuss the latest …
ArticleName In an extraordinary session on rights violations in Syria, the UN Human Rights Council forms investigative committee to look into Crimes against Humanity
On 23 August 2011, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) decided with the approval of 33 member states to form an investigative committee on allegations of Crimes Against Humanity …
UN complaint and press conference to respond to attacks on civil society groups
Responding to the fierce government and media campaign against civil society groups, this morning 39 human rights organizations submitted a complaint with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly andof Association, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, and the Special Rapporteur onHuman Rights …
Over 40 NGOs express their support for granting the ECOSOC Status to Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression
Your Excellency, As civil society organizations from throughout the African and Arab regions and around the world, we are writing to you to express our strong support and …
(CIHRS) delivered an oral Intervention during UNHRC 17th Session “ID with SR on Extrajudicial and Summary Executions”
United Nations Human Rights Council 17th Session Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Oral Intervention Item 3: ID with SR on Extrajudicial and Summary Executions 31 May 2011 Delivered …
International Crimes are being perpetrated by the Syrian authorities
Oral intervention by the International Federation for Human Rights FIDH the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies CIHRS and the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies DCHRS 16th Special Session …
letter to member States of the African Group
To: letter to member States of the African Group Re: Syria’s Candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council Your Excellency, As African nongovernmental organizations working in the field of human rights, we …
Syria Should not be allowed on the UN Human Rights Council
Letter of Appeal by Syrian and Arab Human Rights NGOs: Dear Excellency, We, the undersigned Syrian and Arab NGOs, are deeply alarmed about the candidacy of the Syrian Arab Republic …