(Minsk, Paris) 7 October 2020 – Belarus’ presidential election – marred by an unprecedented level of falsifications and leading to mass protests – has been followed by brutal, ongoing repression …
Russia’s Role in Human Rights Abuses and Impunity Raise Questions about the Legitimacy of Future HRC Seat
On 5 October 2020, 33 civil society organizations sent a joint letter to United Nations Member States urging them not to vote in favor of Russia for a seat on …
International treaty bodies should ensure state compliance with their obligations to protect human rights in the context of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
In a joint human rights letter to the United Nations 523 local, regional and international human rights organizations- among them the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies- expressed serious concern …
An open human rights letter to the United Nations on the Chinese government’s human rights violations
Ahead of the 45th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on September 9 2020, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies joined more than 300 regional and international …
Civil society calls on United Nations to investigate grave human rights violations in Iran
In an appeal from 20 human rights organizations around the world, including the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, the signatories called on member states of the United Nations Human …
Joint letter: Put Human Rights and Communities at the center of the Nov. 2020 “Finance In Common” Summit for Public Developments Banks
Ahead of the November 2020 “Finance in Common” meeting in Paris, where the French Development Agency will convene a global summit for Public Developments Banks, CIHRS and over 200 CSOs …
To member and observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Council should urgently launch an independent international investigative mechanism on the human rights situation in the Philippines
The ongoing extrajudicial executions and other egregious human rights violations in the context of the “war on drugs” in the Philippines was the subject of a letter sent by the …
CIHRS stands with victims of racist police violence in their call to strengthen UN resolution
With over one thousand police killings in the United States alone and amid mass protests calling for racial justice following the extrajudicial killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police …
Human rights organizations reject report of the U.S. State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights
CIHRS joined with scores of American and international human rights organizations in rejecting the report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights, established by the U.S. Department of State. As many …