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 …
Yemen: NGOs demand UN-led criminal investigation into Yemen war crimes
Yesterday, in a joint letter to United Nations member states, civil society groups from Yemen and around the world called on UN member states to work towards the establishment of …
Enforced disappearances in Yemen as a direct result of impunity
On August 30, the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, the persistent nature of enforced disappearance in Yemen, exacerbated by the impunity applied to all parties to the …
Yemen: Houthis Should Urgently Open Taizz Roads
Restore Freedom of Movement, Humanitarian Access (Beirut, August 29, 2022) – Houthi forces, also known as Ansar Allah, should immediately open vital roads in and around Taizz, Yemen’s third-largest city, …
Joint Response to Yemen’s Supertanker Crisis
An Open Letter to US, UK, EU member states, and other UN Donor Countries (Beirut, July 18, 2022) – The FSO Safer, an oil storage tanker moored 32 nautical miles …
Yemen: United Nations must intervene to stop the targeting of journalists and media workers
View PostIsrael’s apartheid, use of counterterrorism laws against human rights defenders, top CIHRS’ agenda at the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council
Throughout the course of over a month, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) took part in the 49th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC), …
101 Organisations Working in and on Yemen Urge Immediate Action
Joint Open Letter to the UN Security Council Representatives The conflict in Yemen will enter into its eighth year tomorrow, and civilians continue to bear the brunt of the fighting. …