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 …
A Message from Civil Society in the Arab Region to the Summit for Democracy
View PostUAE: 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 …
International human rights organizations: The Secretary-General of the United Nations must ensure the publication of a complete list of perpetrators of violations in the 2021 annual report on children and armed conflict
Eighteen human rights organizations called on the UN Secretary-General to ensure that the 2021 annual report on children and armed conflict and its annexed list of perpetrators is comprehensive and includes …
CIHRS Tenth Annual Report: New aspects of human rights crises during the Covid-19 pandemic
“The human rights situation in the Arab region, which has already been deteriorating for years, is deteriorating even more rapidly with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, especially afflicting economic …
Yemen: Joint Letter Calling on Congress to Help End the Conflict
On 03 December 2020, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) along with 29 international human rights and humanitarian organizations, submitted a joint letter calling on Congress to help …
UAE: International Coalition of NGOs Calls on the United States to Immediately Halt Proposed Arms Sales to the UAE
We the undersigned non-governmental organizations write in opposition to the United States government’s plans to sell more than $23 billion in advanced weapons systems and munitions to the United Arab …
CIHRS 23rd Regional Forum of the Human Rights Movement: Prospects of Reform in the Arab World in Post COVID-19 Realities
CIHRS 23rd Regional Forum of the Human Rights Movement (August / September 2020) With growing attention given to the potential effects of COVID-19 on the increasingly eroding prospects of reform …