Foreign Ministers African Union Member States Re: 50th Anniversary and Advancing Justice for Grave Crimes To Foreign Ministers of African Union member states: We, the undersigned African civil society organisations and international organisations with a presence in Africa, working on human rights and ...

YAOUNDE, CAMEROON Human rights defenders (HRDs) meeting in Cameroon at the first counterpart meeting of the PAHRD Net have learnt with shock and outrage at the arbitrary arrest and detention of Zimbabwe’s leading human rights lawyer Mrs Beatrice Mtetwa by the ...

Organization: Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Location: Cairo, Egypt Position: League of Arab States Advocacy Officer Organizational Unit: Arab Regional Advocacy Program Starting Date: Immediately Contract Duration: 8 months, with possibility of extension Salary: The remuneration will be commensurate with the experience of the ...

Citizens from South Sudan and Sudan have today been joined by human rights activists, civil society organisations and faith leaders from around the world in a united call for peace within and between the two countries. The global campaign – We ...

The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, in cooperation with the International Service for Human Rights, is holding a consultative meeting for two days, Friday and Saturday April 13and 14 on the role of regional and international mechanisms in the promotion ...

In a Panel on Freedom of Expression on the Internet, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) in cooperation with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) delivered an oral statement before the 19th session of the Geneva-based UN ...

The oral intervention delivered by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies during an urgent debate on the situation in Syria at 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council Oral intervention - urgent debate on Syria Delivered by: Ms. Laila Matar Thank ...

06 Jan 2012 The Gulf Centre for Human Rights, the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights and Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies hold the authorities in Bahrain full responsibility for the life and safety of human Rights defender Nabeel Rajab. The President ...

On 29-30th October, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) participated in an “Expert Talk” on Perspectives of the UN Human Rights Council held in Berlin, Germany. The "talk" was jointly hosted by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung organization and ...

Human Rights NGOs urge the EU and USA to take into account the views of civil society in their initiative for reforms in the Arab region At a press conference held in Brussels this morning on the eve of the EU-US ...