To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland Excellencies, Ahead of the 42nd regular session of the UN Human Rights Council …
More than 100 Organisations Call for the Release of the UN Database of Businesses Engaged in Activities with Israeli Settlements
On 27 August 2019, 103 local, regional and international organizations called on the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Madam Michelle Bachelet, to release the UN database of …
EGYPT: Release Ramy Shaath!
Paris-Cairo-Geneva, August 30, 2019 Mr. Ramy Shaath, political opponent and Coordinator of the BDS movement in Egypt, is arbitrarily detained since July 5. The information was made public last week …
Egypt: Immediately release defenders Ibrahim Ezz El-Din and Haitham Mohammedein, and end reprisals against rights organizations
The undersigned rights organizations demand the immediate release of researcher Ibrahim Ezz El-Din and labor lawyer and activist Haitham Mohammedein, both working at the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms …
Civil society—not repressive regimes—should discuss inequality at G7
Later this week, France will host the annual G7 summit in Biarritz, with a theme of “fighting inequality” — including gender inequality. FIDH and 73 of its member organisations around …
The UN postpones its regional conference in Egypt on the crime of torture
Human rights organizations: Egypt’s appalling record of torture should disqualify it from hosting conference The signatory Egyptian rights organizations thank all parties, both Egyptian activists and international organizations, for their …
EGYPT: 20 RIGHTS NGOS CALL ON PRESIDENT MACRON TO DENOUNCE EGYPT’S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD DURING THE G7 MEETING
It was a striking choice for France to invite Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to attend the 24-26 August G7 summit in Biarritz, for which the chosen theme is “the fight …
Libya Platform: The situation of human rights in Libya: extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearance
The Platform Coalition[1]: An update on the situation of Human Rights in Libya First issue: The prevalence of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in Libya as a means of …
CIHRS at the United Nations Human Rights Council – 41st session
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) engaged in the 41st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, held from 24 June to 12 July 2019 in Geneva, …
CSO’s Letter to the African Union Commission about the State of Human Rights in Egypt
by H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat We write to you in your capacity as the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, the secretariat of the continental organisation responsible for driving the …
Letter to US Secretary of State Pompeo: Commission on Unalienable Rights must be immediately disbanded
July 23, 2019 The Honorable Michael Pompeo Secretary of State U.S. Department of State Washington, D.C. 20520 Dear Secretary Pompeo: We, the undersigned U.S. foreign policy, human rights, civil liberties, …
EGYPT: New crackdown to terrorise civil society
Paris-Geneva, July 23, 2019 – At least 83 persons, including political opposition activists, journalists and human rights defenders, have been arrested in Egypt over terrorist charges since June 25 for …
Atrocities against migrants in Libya must be probed by African Commission on People’s Rights
A joint request demanding an investigation into the gross human rights violations against refugees and migrants in Libyan detention centers was submitted today to the African Commission on Human and …
Israeli Authorities Attempt to Forcibly Deport Palestinian Photojournalist from Jerusalem to Jordan
During the night of 21-22 July 2019, the Israeli authorities attempted to deport Palestinian photojournalist Mustafa al-Kharouf, from Givon Prison near the city of Ramleh in Israel to Jordan, a …
Egypt: Draft NGO law before parliament is simply rebranded repression, must be rejected
The undersigned organizations reject the draft NGO law currently before the Egyptian parliament. Presented as an alternative to the widely-criticized Law 70 of 2017, the draft NGO is simply a …