To the attention of Prime Minister Harris, Tánaiste Martin, Minister McEntee, Minister O’Gorman and Minister Browne We, the undersigned human rights non-governmental organizations, are writing to you with utmost concern …
56th Session of the UN Human Rights Council:
Rights Protections Undermined as Victims Increasingly Abandoned
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) expressed profound concern over the increasing abandonment of victims of wide-spread and severe human rights violations throughout the MENA region and wider world, …
Priorities of the human rights movement amid a region in crisis and a crumbling international order
Conclusions of the 27th Regional Forum of the Human Rights Movement The future of human rights in the Arab region faces a compounded crisis. On the one hand, the ability …
55th Session of the UN Human Rights Council: Between Palestine and Ukraine
Double-standards and silence in the face of atrocities are eroding the UN rights system
On 5 April, the longest session in the history of the United Nations Human Rights Council came to an end. Over a six-week period, UN member states debated and voted …
CIHRS 27th Regional Forum for the Human Rights Movement
‘Human Rights at a Crossroads’
On 13 and 14 April, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) convened the 27th Regional Forum for the Human Rights Movement, titled ‘Human Rights at a Crossroads’. The …
Algeria: New amendments to Penal Code will further entrench repression
New amendments to the Penal Code, adopted on 2 April 2024, add a litany of harsh and overbroad articles to the repressive legal arsenal in Algeria that could further criminalize …
Algeria: Detainees must be released and civic space opened
We, the signing associations and organizations, call on the Algerian authorities to release unjustly imprisoned detainees for expressing their opinions or peacefully exercising their freedoms, and to open up civic …
Algeria: Appeal hearing an opportunity to reinstate leading independent rights organization dissolved amid intensifying crackdown
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) calls on the authorities to overturn the decision to dissolve the oldest and most prominent human rights organization in Algeria, the Algerian League …