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 …
Oral intervention on Yemen at the UN Human Rights Council 38th Session
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies delivered an oral statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council 38th session held in Geneva in June, deteriorating situation in Yemen.UN Human …
Joint Statement by Human Rights and Civil Liberties Groups
The undersigned human rights and civil liberties organizations urge the Saudi and UAE-led coalition to immediately and unconditionally release Radhya Almutawakel and Abdulrasheed Alfaqih, two prominent Yemeni human rights defenders …
Saudi Arabia | Crackdown on Saudi women human rights defenders sets off alarms
Over 30 human rights groups call for their immediate release The undersigned human rights groups call on the Saudi authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all human rights defenders arrested …
Human Rights Under Siege.The Seventh Annual Report of CIHRS:MENA Region at the Mercy of Autocratic Regimes, Militias, and Religious Extremists Enabled by the International Community’s Complicity
Human Rights Under Siege. The Seventh Annual Report of CIHRS:MENA Region at the Mercy of Autocratic Regimes, Militias, and Religious Extremists Enabled by the International Community’s Complicity “Violent, extremist groups …
CIHRS in its annual report: Arab governments’ hostility to reform and change exacerbated civil wars and terrorism
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies said that the Arab world is witnessing an unparalleled deterioration in the human rights situation amid armed conflicts and civil wars resulting from …
Saudi Arabia: A Closed letter from Human Rights Organizations to the Saudi leadership
Sent on 16 July 2015 and no reply has been received as yet His Majesty the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, King …
Regional and International Organizations: International Community Should Take concrete action to Protect Human Rights Defenders in the Gulf and Iraq
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, the Gulf Center for Human Rights, the Monitor for Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, and the …
Saudi Arabia Flogs a Citizen and Egypt Imprisons another for ‘Offending Islam’
Bahey El Din Hassan, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Director, stated that there is no qualitative difference between the position of terrorist groups and that of some Arab …