Public Prosecution must fulfill its role in protecting rape survivors The undersigned organizations denounce the Cairo Criminal Court’s verdict on 21 June 2021 against Haneen Hossam, Mawada Eladhm, and three …
European bank challenged on human rights credentials
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has struggled to prevent the billions of euros it lends each year from supporting autocratic regimes, finds a new report from civil …
Egypt: In solidarity with Hossam Bahgat, state security targeting of human rights defenders must end
The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the Public Prosecution’s summoning of prominent human rights defender Hossam Bahgat, the founding executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), for …
Egypt: Moratorium on executions is imperative as unjust death sentence upheld in Rabaa Dispersal Case
View PostFirst Annual MENA Lesbian and Queer Women’s Pride Day in honor of Sarah Hegazi
The movements and organizations that have joined in signing this statement support the honoring of Sarah Hegazi’s memory by adopting the thirteenth of June each year as a day of …
G7 Leaders Should Turn Rhetoric into Action to Address Human Rights Crises in the Middle East and North Africa
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) sent an open letter to G7 leaders on June 10 setting out recommendations for how policies of G7 states can improve the …
Egypt: Hope Coalition detainees must be immediately released, after nearly two years of wrongful imprisonment
View PostEgypt: President Should Act to Unshackle Freedoms
We the undersigned 64 organizations from around the world call on the Egyptian authorities, including President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to take immediate action to end the Egyptian authorities’ wholesale crackdown on independent organizations and peaceful dissent.
Egypt: Human rights organizations condemn the referral of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to the Emergency Supreme State Security Court and demand his immediate release
The undersigned organizations condemn the referral of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master’s student at the Central European University in Austria (CEU), to an urgent trial before the Emergency Supreme …