What’s shocking is not that Islamist currents have proven anti-democratic and anti-human rights, but how quickly they dropped the façade of the victim, writes Bahieddin Hassan  “The security apparatus is not in the business of art, but in confronting criminal acts.” You ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities have compounded serious pre-trial violations of fair trial rights by arbitrarily denying family members, international observers, and the international media access to the mass trial of 94 critics of the government, a coalition of seven international ...

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 ...

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights), the Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) sent an observation mission to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ...

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 ...

The undersigned human rights organizations are deeply concerned by reports and testimonies indicating that groups of demonstrators on Friday, 22 March, targeted individuals for the purpose of physically harming them. Citizens were targeted during clashes at various sites in Muqattam, ...

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 ...