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CIHRS at the United Nations Human Rights Council – 39th Session: UN renews historic investigations into Yemen war crimes despite Saudi threats

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CIHRS at the United Nations Human Rights Council – 39th Session:UN renews historic investigations into Yemen war crimes despite Saudi threatsThe 39th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council …

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The Militarization of Politics and an Authoritarian Revival: The Eighth Annual CIHRS Report on Human Rights in the Arab Region

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“استمرار تدهور الأوضاع الإنسانية وحالة حقوق الإنسان في معظم بلدان المنطقة العربية هو نتيجة طبيعية لتوسع عسكرة السياسة، والفشل في إيجاد حلول سلمية وجذرية لنزاعات المنطقة الداخلية والدولية، وتجدد مشروعات …

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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies at the United Nations | 38th Session of the Human Rights Council

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بين 18 يونيه و6 يوليو 2018، انعقدت الدورة الـ38 لمجلس حقوق الإنسان بالأمم المتحدة في جنيف بسويسرا. ركزت الجلسة على القرارات المواضيعية، بما في ذلك تلك المتعلقة بحماية المجتمع المدني …

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CIHRS Analyzes Prospects for Peace and Democratic Transition in Libya

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At the beginning of May, the Libyan people suffered yet another terrorist attack as they struggle to transition into democracy, this time with a suicide bombing of the electoral commission …

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Libya|Open letter to the Libyan state: support a mechanism to determine individual accountability for violations in Libya

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We urge Libya to accept through the HRC an international investigative mechanism for Libya, to deter further horrific human rights violations of hundreds of thousands of Libyans as well as migrants and refugees and stop ongoing human rights abuses by armed groups and militias. Such mechanism would need the sufficient resources to be able to determine the facts and circumstances of violations and abuses across Libya and identify individual perpetrators and chain of command.