On 23 September 2025, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) held its monthly Ibn Rushd Salon under the title: ‘The Arab World: From Dreams of Arab Unity to …
The AIMC must end its role in transnational repression, say NGOs
The undersigned organisations call on the Arab Interior Ministers’ Council (AIMC) to cease its facilitation of arbitrary extraditions of peaceful dissidents and human rights defenders across Arab League countries and …
Call for Urgent Action: Over 500 Signatures from Public Figures, Human Rights Organizations, Political Groups, and Individuals Demanding Immediate Release of Poet Abdel Rahman Youssef
We, the undersigned individuals and organizations, express our condemnation of the detention of poet Abdel Rahman Youssef Al-Qaradawi by Lebanese authorities on 28 December 2024, based on a security cooperation …
TAE’THIR CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
T H E M E “Resisting Defeatism” Humanity has endured endless tests throughout the recent decades, with the past year proving particularly devastating. The ongoing genocidal wars in Gaza and …
Priorities of the human rights movement amid a region in crisis and a crumbling international order
Conclusions of the 27th Regional Forum of the Human Rights Movement The future of human rights in the Arab region faces a compounded crisis. On the one hand, the ability …
Urgent Appeal for Justice: Condemning the Unjust Prosecution of Dozens of Emiratis in the UAE
We, the undersigned human rights organizations, are deeply concerned by the new prosecutions brought by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities against more than 80 Emiratis, some of whom are …
The human rights setback on the Universal Declaration’s diamond jubilee
Message of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies on the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United …
UAE: Release all those unjustly imprisoned before COP28
Joint Appeal Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) should release all those unjustly imprisoned in the country before the start of COP28, which will be held at Expo City Dubai …
CIHRS 26th Regional Forum: The Responsibility of the Human Rights Movement in the Arab Region Amid a Shifting International Context
On 2-3 September 2022, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) convened its 26th Regional Forum for the Human Rights Movement in Brussels, Belgium. Fifty human rights defenders and …
United Arab Emirates: Free members of UAE94 and other prisoners of conscience
On the anniversary of the verdicts in the mass trial of prominent human rights defenders, lawyers, judges, academics and students known as the UAE94, we the undersigned call on allies …
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Condemns Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
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Open letter to the General Assembly of INTERPOL Dear Members of the General Assembly, We, the undersigned, are writing to express our deep concern about the candidacy of Major General …
UAE: Appeal for UAE to release detained human rights activists ahead of Dubai Expo
Your highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan, As the Expo Dubai 2020 opens for six months starting on 1 October 2021 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) under the …
United Nations Should Ensure Independent Human Rights Oversight of UN Counterterrorism Strategy and its Impact on human rights, equality and sovereignty
In June 30 the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) joined a joint statement between twenty international human rights organizations, calling on member states of the United Nations to …