“Horizons of political reform in the Arab world” Parallel Forum to “the Forum for the Future” Cairo, Egypt The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies organized the 14th Regional Forum …
Re- Engaging the Guarantors to the Sudanese Comprehensive Peace Agreement
The experiences of recent years have demonstrated that focusing on one part of Sudan at the expenseof another complicates the situation in both. Focusing too narrowly on the challenges …
The opening of the 4th regional training on International Human Rights Mechanisms- 2 July, 2010
The opening of the 4th regional training on International Human Rights Mechanisms- 2 July, 2010 The fourth regional training course on International Human Rights Mechanisms will start tomorrow …
UN Rights Body Ends With a Whimper: On the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the United Nations Human Rights Council struggles to address rights violations
The latest session of the UN Human Rights Council, which ended on June 18, has highlighted the political malaise that has made it difficult for the world’s preeminent …
Joint Press Release: Egypt: Rights Groups Expose Systemic Violations by Government Before UN Rights Council – Government Minister Pledges Mechanism to Monitor Implementation of UN Recommendations
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 …