On Monday December 10, Together We Build It and Habka Magazine – in partnership with the Defender Center for Human Rights and the Libya Platform – opened the art exhibit …
Libya must uphold its obligation to protect women
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women November 25[1] is the UN’s annual International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.[2] One in every three …
CIHRS 21st Regional Forum of the Human Rights Movement in the Arab World
Issues for the human rights movement in volatile political and social contexts In armed conflict, should human rights groups prioritize accountability or peace? How should the rights movement address critical …
CIHRS at the United Nations Human Rights Council – 39th Session: UN renews historic investigations into Yemen war crimes despite Saudi threats
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 …
The Militarization of Politics and an Authoritarian Revival: The Eighth Annual CIHRS Report on Human Rights in the Arab Region
“The deterioration of humanitarian conditions and the state of human rights in most Arab countries is a natural result of the militarization of politics, the failure to find peaceful and …
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies at the United Nations | 38th Session of the Human Rights Council
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 …
CIHRS Analyzes Prospects for Peace and Democratic Transition in Libya
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 …
Libya Platform: Although an important step, Paris meeting stymied by failure to draft security sector reform plan and activate effective deterrence mechanisms
While welcoming the Tuesday May 29th meeting in Paris between warring Libyan parties and the UN and representatives of the international community, the Libya Platform fears this latest attempt to …
UN Must Do More to End Impunity for Atrocities in the MENA Region
37th Session of the Human Rights Council
Libya|Open letter to the Libyan state: support a mechanism to determine individual accountability for violations in Libya
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.