Dear EU High Representative Borrell and Foreign Ministers of the EU member states, We are writing following credible revelations that Israeli NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware was used to hack the devices of …
A Message from Civil Society in the Arab Region to the Summit for Democracy
View PostJoint Letter: Congress Must Block Biden Administration’s Wrongful $650 Million Arm sale to Saudi Arabia or Risk Fueling Further U.S. Complicity in Rights Violations and Yemini Civilian Suffering
Dear Members of Congress, We, the undersigned non-governmental organizations, write in opposition to the Biden Administration’s plans to sell $650 million in air-to-air munitions to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. …
More than 100 trade unions, political parties and human rights groups send letter to EU in support of Palestinian civil society
Dear High Representative, As organisations based in Europe, we would like to alert you to the extremely serious situation created by the slander of the State of Israel against six …
Egypt: New amendments ratified by president entrench permanent state of emergency
View PostHuman Rights Concerns Following the US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue
Secretary of State Antony Blinken 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 cc: Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Yael Lempert Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human …
Egypt: End Harassment of Rights Defender
Verdict on Hossam Bahgat Speech Charges Due November 29 (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities should cease the harassment and persecution of prominent human rights defender and journalist, Hossam Bahgat, who faces abusive charges …
Egypt: UNDP Report Whitewashes Human Rights Violations
(New York, November 22, 2021) — The United Nations Development Program’s September 2021 Egypt Human Development Report includes false and misleading claims, Amnesty International, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies …
Egypt: Rights groups condemn exceptional sentence given to Elelaimy, Moanes, Fouad, and others and urge president not to ratify it
View PostYemen: 40 CSOs call on German government and party representatives to enact a comprehensive ban on arms exports to Saudi-led coalition
40 civil society organizations- including the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies- have called for the extension and reinforcement of Germany’s ban on arms export and licensing to Saudi Arabia, …