Today marks a year since the start of Israel’s genocidal offensive in Gaza, following Hamas’ atrocious attack on southern Israel in which over 1,200 people, many of them civilians, were …
Egypt: The Biden Administration Compounds its Human Rights Failures in the Arab Region by Disregarding Human Rights Conditions on Military Assistance
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies is dismayed by the Biden administration’s decision, communicated to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday September 11, that it would release the $320 million …
ICJ Advisory Opinion:
The EU And Its Member States Must Comply With International Law
On 19 July 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its landmark Advisory Opinion on Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East …
Is the Palestinian Cause Central to the Arab World?
The date of the Al-Aqsa Flood, 7 October 2023, will be remembered for more than one reason, regardless of the intentions of its masterminds. One reading is that Al-Aqsa laid …
Palestine: Israel ushers in new phase of terrifying destruction in West Bank
In the late hours of 27 August, Israel began simultaneously attacking multiple locations in cities and refugee camps in the West Bank, reportedly killing at least 10 people, in what …
Rights Groups urge EU to act against Israel’s unprecedented journalist killings, press freedom violations
Dear Mr Josep Borrell Fontelles High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/ Vice-President of the Commission Dear Mr Valdis Dombrovskis European Commission, Executive Vice-President for An …
HRDN Letter to Members of the European Parliament – 2024-2029 Legislature
Dear Members of the European Parliament, The Human Rights and Democracy Network (HRDN) and its 68 members congratulate you on your election or re-election in the European Parliament. We look …
56th Session of the UN Human Rights Council:
Rights Protections Undermined as Victims Increasingly Abandoned
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) expressed profound concern over the increasing abandonment of victims of wide-spread and severe human rights violations throughout the MENA region and wider world, …
After 7 October: Prospects in the Arab World
Over the two waves of the Arab Spring uprisings, which spanned nearly a decade, the Arab world was unable to find a common middle ground between the ruling elites and …