U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Pillay. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse Today, 8 May 2013, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, issued a statement in which she expressed her deep concern regarding the critical state of human rights ...

Joint Appeal by 22 Organizations Ms. Navanethem Pillay >United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palais Wilson 52 rue des Pâquis CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland Madam High Commissioner, The opening of a regional OHCHR bureau in Cairo has been ...

Photo by: Paola Daher, CIHRS (22 March, 2013 – Geneva)  The 22nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Council) comes to an end on 22 March.    While the Council has been heavily criticized in the past for ...

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)World Organization against Torture (OMCT)Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS - Egypt)Human Rights Center VIASNA (Belarus)ADC Memorial (Russia) Cairo - Saint-Petersburg - Minsk -  Paris – Geneva. Today, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council gave a strong response to the ...

 In an Oral Intervention to the UN Human Rights Council: Yesterday, March 20, 2013, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) presented an oral intervention on the state of human rights in Libya before the United Nations Human Rights Council ...

ARTICLE 19 and Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) are concerned that a new draft resolution on religious tolerance, tabled by the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) at the 22nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), has ...

On March 18th 2013, The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) delivered an oral intervention on human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories, before the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), whose 22nd session is currently convened in ...

Photo by: Kirolos Nathan, CIHRS Egyptian human rights defenders representing the Egyptian NGO Forum, a group of 23 independent Egyptian human rights organizations, have been present at the 22nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva throughout ...

As part of the activities of the 22nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), currently convened in Geneva, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) presented an oral intervention before the HRC, March 12, 2013, in ...

UN Human Rights Council: 22nd session Oral intervention: Item 4 – ID on report of COI on Syria Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) 12 March 2013 Delivered by: Paola Salwan Daher The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies welcomes the report of the ...