The President’s 10 Year Anniversary:Curbing Worsening Repression andHuman Rights Abuses in Syria Thursday 23 September13.00 – 15.00Palais des Nations, room XXIV Human rights defenders and advocates discuss the legacy …
CIHRS Denounces Legal Discrimination against Women in the Arab World at UN
United Nations Human Rights Council: Session 15 Panel on Discrimination Against Women- Oral Intervention Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) 20 September, 2010 Delivered by: Laila Matar Thank you …
Happening Now: CIHRS Condemns Rising Human Rights Violations in Syria and Bahrain before the UN
United Nations Human Rights Council: 15th Session Item 4: GD, Oral Intervention Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) 20 September, 2010 Delivered by: Ziad Abdel Tawab Thank you Mr. …
UN expert committee deeply concerned about routine use of Torture in Syria
(19 May, 2010 – Geneva, Damascus) The UN Committee against Torture (CAT), after its first review of Syria, has concluded that there are “numerous, ongoing, and consistent allegations concerning …
Press Release: UN Committee Against Torture Reviewed Syria’s Record for the First Time
(10 May, 2010 – Cairo) The widespread use of torture by security agencies in Syria, not only against political prisoners and detainees, but also against ordinary criminal detainees, is highlighted …
In two interventions before HRC| The Deteriorating Situation of Marginalized Minorities and Repressed Religious Freedoms in the Arab Region
In two interventions before the United Nations Human Rights Council:The Deteriorating Situation of Marginalized Minorities and Repressed Religious Freedoms in the Arab Region Press Release During the tenth session of …
35 members and partners of IFEX and the Arab Working Group call for support for journalists and activists facing harassment and detention prior to trial of human rights activist Mazen Darwish
(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is a joint letter by 35 members and partners of IFEX and the Arab Working Group to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: We, the undersigned organisations dedicated …
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies’ (CIHRS) Report On the Consultative Meeting on Methods of Activating the Arab Charter of Human Rights (ACHR)
Upon entering into force, is there a chance for the Arab Charter of Human Rights (ACHR) to be activated? The deliberations in the consultative meeting held in Cairo on December …
A disturbing deterioration on all fronts
The Executive Committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network is concerned at the noticeable deterioration of the human rights situation in the whole Euromed region. It denounces in particular the …
The Art of Claiming Right…. 45 students from 4 Arab countries in the fourteenth training workshop on Human Rights for Egyptian and Arab Universities Students
Today morning, the fourteenth annual training workshop on human rights organized by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) in its premises was opened. The workshop lasts from August …