The movements and organizations that have joined in signing this statement support the honoring of Sarah Hegazi’s memory by adopting the thirteenth of June each year as a day of …
Algeria: Ahead of orchestrated elections, could democratic aspirations be smothered once and for all?
View PostG7 Leaders Should Turn Rhetoric into Action to Address Human Rights Crises in the Middle East and North Africa
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) sent an open letter to G7 leaders on June 10 setting out recommendations for how policies of G7 states can improve the …
Ethiopia: United Nations urged to take action on human rights crisis in Tigray
On 10 June, twelve regional and international human rights organizations, including the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, sent a joint letter to representatives of member states and observer states …
Egypt: Hope Coalition detainees must be immediately released, after nearly two years of wrongful imprisonment
View PostEgypt: President Should Act to Unshackle Freedoms
We the undersigned 64 organizations from around the world call on the Egyptian authorities, including President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to take immediate action to end the Egyptian authorities’ wholesale crackdown on independent organizations and peaceful dissent.
Egypt: Human rights organizations condemn the referral of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to the Emergency Supreme State Security Court and demand his immediate release
The undersigned organizations condemn the referral of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master’s student at the Central European University in Austria (CEU), to an urgent trial before the Emergency Supreme …
Egypt: Biden’s Budget Request Continues “Blank Check”
We, the undersigned organizations, write to express strong disappointment that the administration has requested $1.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing for Egypt for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. President Biden campaigned …
Palestine: CIHRS Welcomes Adoption of Historic Resolution Establishing a CoI Addressing the Palestinian People on Both Sides of the Green Line During 30th HRC Special Session
Yesterday, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted[1] a historic resolution[2] establishing a standing Commission of Inquiry to address Israel’s latest and ongoing violations against the Palestinian people on …