On 19 June 2012, due to their deteriorating health, women human rights defenders Basma Al-Keumy, lawyer, and Basma Al-Rajehy, writer and TV broadcaster, ended their hunger strike aimed at their …
Press Conference with the Independent Coalition for Elections Monitoring: Presidential Elections neither Free nor Transparent, Somewhat Impartial
A few hours prior to the announcement of the final results of the presidential elections, the Independent Coalition for Elections Monitoring held a press conference on the morning of Sunday, …
Call for Joint Action on Bahrain at the 20th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
Joint NGO Letter to State Delegations at the United Nations Human Rights Council: Your Excellency, Since February 2011 the human rights situation in Bahrain has witnessed a severe deterioration. Widespread …
CIHRS responds to Egyptian government’s claims before UN: Egyptian government intentionally misleads international public opinion; CIHRS intervention stresses that liberties are not “second-class” rights
A report submitted to the 20th session of the UN Human Rights Council, currently convened in Geneva, by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Peaceful Assembly and of …
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Freedom of Assembly and Association: Countering Persecution and Pushback on Civil Society
Friday, 22 June 2012, 12h00 – 14h00 Palais des Nations, Room XXV The freedoms of peaceful assembly and association are fundamental to civil society and citizen action but continue to …
Call to release freedom of expression defenders, held incommunicado in Syria
The undersigned rights groups from around the world are seriously concerned about human rights defenders, journalists, writers and bloggers in Syria who have been subjected to enforced disappearance, which has …
Bahrain: Victims’ voices clamor to be heard at UN Human Rights Council in Geneva
On June 19, 2012, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR), Human Rights Watch …
The Political Pathology of the Egyptian State
Egyptians can only hope that the events of the past week represent a temporary setback in the democratic transition, rather than an irreversible regression to authoritarianism – marking the end …
Call for Action on Eritrea at UN Human Rights Council
To: Members of the Human Rights Council Excellency, The undersigned non-governmental organisations are writing to express their utmost concern about the ongoing widespread and systematic human rights violations in Eritrea …
CIHRS at the UN Human Rights Council: Freedom of expression, peaceful protest and litigation before civilian courts… Rights still violated in the Arab world
Today, Monday June 18, marks the inauguration of the proceedings of the 20th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva; the session is scheduled to conclude …