The undersigned human rights organizations denounce and call for an immediate end to the Egyptian government’s relentless retaliatory campaign targeting opposition, political activists, human rights defenders, and journalists, manifested in …
Civil society calls on HRC to strengthen GEE mandate and focus on accountability for human rights violations in Yemen
On 20 August 2020, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and Mwatana for Human Rights submitted a joint written statement to the 45th Regular Session of the UN …
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 …
Yemen: Release of arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared civilians must be prioritized by all parties to the conflict
As the war in Yemen approaches its seventh year, many families continue to suffer as the fate of their loved ones remains unknown in both official and unofficial detention centers …
Saudia Arabia: At the upcoming 45th Human Rights Council, the Kingdom must be pressured to comply with its international human rights obligations
In a September 1st public letter to the foreign ministers of member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council, a number of human rights organizations – among them the …
Libya: National authorities and international community must urgently protect demonstrators and freedom of expression in Libya
CIHRS and the Libya Platform[1] Repressing fundamental freedoms will only serve to reinforce crisis of legitimacy on both sides The population in Libya has suffered greatly from the armed conflict …
It’s official: In Egypt, you can now get 15 years in jail for a tweet
By Elisa Massimino and Neil Hicks In the six years since Abdel Fatah al-Sissi assumed the presidency in Egypt, the country has devolved into the deepest human rights crisis it has experienced in …
Call: Advocacy Program Researcher – Tunis Office
FULL TIME JOB VACANCY JOB TITLE: Researcher on Yemen and Iraq PROGRAM: Arab Regional Advocacy Program (ARAP) LOCATION: Tunis, Tunisia DURATION: One year, renewable. REMUNERATION: Competitive salary rate for Tunis-based …
To member and observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Council should urgently launch an independent international investigative mechanism on the human rights situation in the Philippines
The ongoing extrajudicial executions and other egregious human rights violations in the context of the “war on drugs” in the Philippines was the subject of a letter sent by the …