Joint Press Release Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-Violence Studies, Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Centre for Trade Unions and Workers Services, …
Sudan Rights Defenders: ‘UN Rights Body Must Not Abandon Sudan’
(Geneva, 10 June) Our organisations regret that the Human Rights Council has decided to defer its discussion of the human rights situation in Sudan to its fifteenth session in …
One Hundred Days on Reviewing Egypt’s File before The United Nations Human Rights Council
Press Conference of The Forum of Independent Human Rights Organizations “Human Rights in Egypt In 100 Days” The forum of independent human rights organizations in Egypt held a …
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
BY SHADI HAMID Egyptian voters cast their ballots Tuesday for the Shura council, the country’s upper house of Parliament, amidst widespread allegations of vote-rigging and outright government violence and …
An oral intervention presented to the United Nations 14th Human Rights Council: CIHRS calls on the United Nations to conduct immediate investigations over the attacks on the humanitarian aid flotilla
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies called upon the United Nations to conduct immediate investigations that would comply by international law standards in relation to the appalling attacks …
Twenty-Nine Years of Lies…And Now Two More Years
Joint statement : The Egyptian government is often forced to recognize past abuses in the course of putting a pretty face on future ones, as aptly illustrated by a presidential decree …
UN Committee against Torture deeply concerned about attacks against Human Rights Defenders in Yemen
(Geneva – 25 May 2010) The UN Committee against Torture (CAT), which reviewed the situation of torture in Yemen on 6 May, expressed deep concern about allegations of widespread …
UN expert committee deeply concerned about routine use of Torture in Syria
(19 May, 2010 – Geneva, Damascus) The UN Committee against Torture (CAT), after its first review of Syria, has concluded that there are “numerous, ongoing, and consistent allegations concerning …
A joint seminar between CIHRS, POMED and Heinrich Boll Stiftung
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) in cooperation with the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) and Heinrich Boll Stiftung – North America, held a joint seminar titled …
Yemen’s Torture Record Reviewed by UN Experts
(12May, 2010 – Geneva) After being one of only two countries to ever fail to show up to its review at the 43rd session of the UN Committee against …