Human Rights Council- Session 9 Agenda Item 4- Reports of Special Rapp. On Sudan Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Oral Intervention 16 September, 2008 Delivered by Moataz El Fegiery. …
Religious ‘Defamation’ on Agenda at UN Rights Session
(CNSNews.com) – The United Nations’ Human Rights Council kicks off a new session in Geneva on Monday, and a controversial push by Islamic states to outlaw religious “defamation” is high …
Punishing Saad El Din Ibrahim
Punishing Saad El Din IbrahimA New Ring in the Chain of Opinion Trials Press Release The Egyptian human rights organizations express their deep concern over the ruling rendered recently …
all on heads of States of the European Union
Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l’Homme (FIDH)Réseau Euro-Méditerranéen des droits de l’Homme (REMDH)Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) On 13 July 2008, many heads of State s …
The State prevents the commissioners of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights from meeting with independent civil society organizations
The African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) has, nowadays, two of its commissioners on a visit to Tunisia; Mrs. Reini Alapini-Gansou, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human …
Muslim Brothers Party‘s Platform in Egypt From a Human Rights Perspective
Last year’s Autumn the Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt, often simply referred to as the Brotherhood, sent its political party’s draft Platform entitled “Party’s Platform- First Reading” to …
Muslim Brothers Party‘s Platform in Egypt From a Human Rights Perspective
By: Bahey Eldin Hassan
Last year’s Autumn the Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt, often simply referred to as the Brotherhood, sent its political party’s draft Platform entitled “Party’s Platform- First Reading” to …
Letter from 18 Rights Group to the Minister of Interior on Mass Deportation of Eriterian Asylum Seekers
Your Excellency, Minister Habib Ibrahim El Adly, We are writing to express our concern about the ongoing mass deportations of Eritrean asylum-seekers from Egypt back to Eritrea. While we …
Report of the Regional Human Rights Monitoring Workshop…Cairo, May 29-31 2008
The Regional Human Rights Monitoring workshop which was held in Cairo from May 29-31 2008 concluded the “Youth for Human Rights” program, which is the first distance learning program in …
Europe must not turn a blind eye to the deteriorating human rights situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory
In the context of the annual meeting of the EU-Israel Foreign Affairs Ministers (Association Council) scheduled to take place on 16 June 2008 in Luxembourg, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network …