Saudi Arabia should take immediate steps to improve its human rights record as it campaigns for a three-year seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, six human rights groups said …
Rights Organizations Warn that New Counter-Terrorism Law would Re-Establish Foundations of Police State and Intensify Violence and Terrorism
The undersigned rights organizations call upon the Egyptian cabinet to reject the counter-terrorism bill that was recently presented by the Interior Ministry. We warn that adoption of this bill would …
Human rights abusers must not be elected to United Nations Human Rights Council
The international community should ensure that States responsible for gross human rights violations and that fail to protect human rights defenders or cooperate with the UN are not elected to …
Human Rights Organizations Call on the Attorney General to Stop the Implementation of Imprisonment Penalty On the Nile University Student
The human rights organizations signed this statement today; demanding from the attorney general, Judge Hesham Barakat, to promptly rectify the legal mistakes happened in the trial of the Nile University …
New CIHRS report: Opportunities remain for cooperation between civil society and the League of Arab States
On Monday, October 28, 2013, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) issued a new thematic report on the mechanisms of cooperation between Arab civil society and the League …
CIHRS at the African Commission:
North African states must adopt legislation to protect the right to access to information
54th Session of the African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights Banjul – 27 Oct. 2013 Oral Statement by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Item 10: Freedom of …
New peaceful assembly bill undermines Egyptians’ right to meet, strike, stage sit-ins, and demonstrate, and legitimizes their murder
The undersigned organizations express their deep dismay with the proposed law on the regulation of the right to public meetings, processions, and peaceful demonstrations in public spaces, known in the …
New Report Brings Economic & Social Rights Deficits To Attention Of UN
Almost three years have passed since the people of Egypt rose up against the autocratic regime of President Hosni Mubarak, demanding a more just society. In the face of ongoing …
130 Groups Across Africa Call for Countries to Back ICC AU Summit Should Support Court, Including Kenya Cases
(Johannesburg) – 130 groups from across Africa called on African members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a letter made public today to affirm their support for the court at an extraordinary …