Ms. Navanethem PillayUnited Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)Palais des Nations, 1211 Genève 10 -SwitzerlandEmail: [email protected]: +41-22-917-9000 / Fax: …
Forum of Independent Human Rights Organizations asks Egyptian government to set deadline on the implementation of its pledges; declares One Hundred Days campaign to monitor the seriousness of the government’s commitment
The Forum of Independent Egyptian Human Rights Organizations said that the Egyptian government should take immediate and transparent measures to draft a detailed action plan. The action plan ought …
Towards the “militarization” of NGOs: A “fascist” law to strangle civil society
Press release by 41 NGOs : The Egyptian NGO campaign for the Freedom to Associate The undersigned non-governmental organizations wish to express their extreme dismay at recent news that …
Press Release -UN Human Rights Council: 47 Human Rights Organizations Urge States to Reject Draft Resolutions which Threaten to Undermine Freedom of Expression
Forty seven international, regional and national civil society organizations – including ARTICLE 19, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights – have …
Geneva: Human Rights in Egypt- Counter Terrorism Law and the price of “stability”
On 9/3/2010 as a side event to the thirteenth meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council, CIHRS, jointly with others, held an event titled “human right in Egypt- …
Unprecedented Report on Egypt considered at UN Rights Council: Government rejects Criticism by UN Rights Investigator
(8 March, 2010 – Geneva) Egypt’s use of the Emergency Law to justify arbitrary detention and the use of exceptional courts was examined before the UN Human Rights Council …
Following the Statement of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights: 14 Egyptian NGOs Demand a Halt of Migrant Killings on Israel Borders
Fourteen Egyptian human rights groups today expressed their full support of the statement issued by the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights which condemned the Egyptian security forces for killing …
Bibliotheca Alexandrina grants human rights award to the CIHRS; Discussion of the Institute’s annual report in Paris and Geneva
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina has granted a human rights award to the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies “in appreciation of its distinguished, ongoing efforts in the field of human …
UN Rights Council: Egypt rejects important rights reforms, accepts some
On Friday (19 February, 2010) as part of its review before the UN Human Rights Council, Egypt stood before governments from around the world and either rejected or failed …