With intense anxiety the Cairo Institute received the news about the Egyptian Security Forces detaining Hussein Abdel Ghani, President of Al-Jazeera channel in Egypt, with the charges of spreading lies …
he European Parliament Adopts Civil Society’s Recommendations on Human Rights and Democracy in the EU-Egyptian Action Plan (A Joint Statement by 19 Egyptian NGOs )
The undersigned NGOs welcome the resolution by the European Parliament (EP) in which it calls upon the European Commission (EC) and the Egyptian government to incorporate priorities of respect for …
NGOs Urge for Strong Human Rights Commitments in EU-Egypt Action Plan
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIRP), in collaboration with the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), organized a joint mission to …
Political Reform in the Egyptian-European Negotiations
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) has submitted to the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Commission (EC) a memorandum on the priorities of the issues …
Civil Society Demands that the EU-Egyptian Negotiations Follow the Ukrainian Rather the Israeli Model, Criticizes non-Transparency of, And its Exclusion from, Negotiations
Civil society organizations call upon the European Union (EU) and the Egyptian government to consult with civil society in the current bilateral negotiations on the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) Plan …
A Seminar on the European Neighborhood Policy Human Rights and the Egyptian-European Relations
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) will be holding a seminar on the “European Neighborhood Policy: Human Rights and the Egyptian-European …
On the Fringe of the of the Sudanese Refugees’ Tragedy :Egyptian Racism –Curable or Not?
The brutal security cudgels that wasted tens of lives were not the most brutal thing that Sudanese refugees faced during the forceful break up of their peaceful sit-in strike in …
Media and the Egyptian Presidential and Parliamentary Elections
CIHRS monitored Egyptian media’s coverage of the Presidential and Legislative Election held in 2005. In implementing this initiative, the CIHRS adhered to all internationally recognized standards on the role of …
12 Egyptian Rights Groups Demand International Fact-Finding Team on Killing of Sudanese Protestors
Twelve Egyptian human rights organizations today sent a letter to Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights demanding an international fact-finding team to investigate the violent removal by …
Reforming Egyptian Universities before Autonomy: Possible or Not?!
It is highly difficult to separate the aspirations for realizing autonomy of the university, maintain free academic research and other academic freedoms as well as lifting the heavy hand of …