In an important step toward accountability for serious international crimes committed in Libya, former Mitiga Prison security official Khaled Mohamed Ali El-Hishri appears today before the International Criminal Court, facing …
CIHRS Report: Armed groups terrorising judiciary and undermining rule of law in Libya
In Libya, judicial personnel are regularly targeted by assassination, kidnapping, arbitrary detainment, and armed attacks; this alarming phenomenon has been the backdrop against which Libya’s judiciary has operated since 2012 until now. Investigations into these violations are often stalled or never initiated, entrenching impunity and sowing instability under a critically undermined and fragmented legal landscape.
Libya: Extrajudicial Killing of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Exacerbates Libya’s Impunity Crisis
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) is gravely concerned by the latest manifestation of political violence in Libya following the assassination of Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi. The extrajudicial killing …
Toward the Renewal of Political Culture
Conclusions of CIHRS 28th Regional Forum for the Human Rights Movement Under the title ‘Toward New Paths to Reform’, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) organised the 28th …
Libya’s Draft Law on Violence Against Women: A Long-Awaited Step Forward -But Meaningless Without Tackling Lawlessness and Impunity
A Libyan Draft Law on the Protection of Women from Violence, introduced in November 2023 and currently awaiting parliamentary approval, marks an important normative step toward recognizing and combating violence …
Public Letter to Libyan Government of National Unity: Call for Genuine Human Rights Reforms Ahead of Libya’s Fourth UPR Cycle
Your Excellency, Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah of Libya. We, the organizations of the Libya Platform Coalition for Human Rights and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, note the …
The 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council: Normalizing atrocities in the Middle East and North Africa only leads to further unrest
During the United Nation’s 60th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), member states continued to remain silent on victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity across the Middle …
The Arab World: From Dreams of Arab Unity to the Nightmares of Civil Wars
A Reading into Causes and Consequences
On 23 September 2025, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) held its monthly Ibn Rushd Salon under the title: ‘The Arab World: From Dreams of Arab Unity to …
EU Commission must cut Libyan Coast Guard funding after rescue ship shooting, say 42 humanitarian and civil society groups
To: Magnus Brunner, European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Dubravka Šuica, European Commissioner for the Mediterranean On 24 August, the Libyan Coast Guard opened fire without warning on rescue …