Press release (Geneva, 20 March 2011) On Thursday 17 March 2011, the Human Rights Council adopted the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report of Lebanon. Lebanon accepted all three …
CIHRS and Partners Criticize the Outcome of the HRC Review Process
Proposals to improve the UPR process CIHRS Oral intervention to UN HRC Statement Item 6 General Debate Friday 18 March 2011 Mr. President, On February 24th, the Human Rights …
CIHRS calls for the Special Rapporteur on Racism to Conduct Country Visits in the Arab Region
United Nations Human Rights Council: 15th Session Agenda Item 9: ID SR on Racism and Related Intolerance Oral Intervention- Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) 28 September, 2010 Delivered …
CIHRS Denounces Legal Discrimination against Women in the Arab World at UN
United Nations Human Rights Council: Session 15 Panel on Discrimination Against Women- Oral Intervention Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) 20 September, 2010 Delivered by: Laila Matar Thank you …
CIHRS 14th Regional Forum of the Human Rights Movement: Horizons of political reform in the Arab world
“Horizons of political reform in the Arab world” Parallel Forum to “the Forum for the Future” Cairo, Egypt The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies organized the 14th Regional Forum …
The opening of the 4th regional training on International Human Rights Mechanisms- 2 July, 2010
The opening of the 4th regional training on International Human Rights Mechanisms- 2 July, 2010 The fourth regional training course on International Human Rights Mechanisms will start tomorrow …
Press Release -UN Human Rights Council: 47 Human Rights Organizations Urge States to Reject Draft Resolutions which Threaten to Undermine Freedom of Expression
Forty seven international, regional and national civil society organizations – including ARTICLE 19, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights – have …
2009 Report on Human Rights in the Arab World: Bastion of Impunity, Mirage of Reform
“Embrace diversity, end discrimination” Human Rights Day 2009“A man spends his first years learning how to speak and the Arab regimes teach him silence for the rest of his …
Press Conference Invitation: Releasing Annual report on the state of Human Rights in the Arab World 2009
“Embrace diversity, end discrimination”Human Rights Day 2009 “A man spends his first years learning how to speak and the Arab regimes teach him silence for the rest of his …
Arab governments are responsible for the deteriorating human rights situation in the region
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies delivers its first oral statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council together with 13 human rights organizations: Arab governments are responsible for …