Dear EU High Representative Borrell and Foreign Ministers of the EU member states, We are writing following credible revelations that Israeli NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware was used to hack the devices of …
More than 100 trade unions, political parties and human rights groups send letter to EU in support of Palestinian civil society
Dear High Representative, As organisations based in Europe, we would like to alert you to the extremely serious situation created by the slander of the State of Israel against six …
Palestinian, Regional, and International Organizations Submit Urgent Appeal to UN Special Procedures on the Imminent Deportation of Human Rights Defender Salah Hammouri
On 27 October 2021, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Palestinian civil society, and international human rights organizations submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures …
The International Community Must Support and Protect Palestinian Civil Society
As a group of 242 regional and international organizations, we express our full solidarity with Palestinian civil society and human rights defenders as Israel continues to escalate its attacks to …
The FIDH, the OMCT and CIHRS stand in solidarity with attacked Palestinian human rights groups
Brussels, Geneva, Paris, Tunis 25 October 2021 – The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) …
Side Event to HRC 48: Urgent Response Needed to Address Israel’s Escalation of Attacks on Palestinian Human Rights Defenders
On 4 October 2021, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) held a joint webinar with Palestinian civil society on Israel’s escalating attacks against Palestinian human rights defenders and …
New report exposes billions in European financial support to companies in illegal Israeli settlements
672 European financial institutions have financial relationships with 50 businesses that are actively involved with illegal Israeli settlements. These financial institutions provided US$ 114 billion in the form of loans …
Palestine: Israeli Apartheid Must be Rejected by African States
24 September 2021 – Amid growing international recognition that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid, 21 Palestinian, African, and regional human rights organizations, including the Cairo Institute for Human …
Security Council and United Nations called on by human rights community to take urgent measures to protect human rights defenders and peacebuilders, especially in places of conflict
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) joined more than 350 human rights organizations around the world in an open letter to Permanent Representatives to the United Nations, regarding …