Joint statement : The Egyptian government is often forced to recognize past abuses in the course of putting a pretty face on future ones, as aptly illustrated by a presidential decree issued on May 11 that extended the State of Emergency ...

  "Embrace diversity, end discrimination" Human Rights Day 2009"A man spends his first years learning how to speak and the Arab regimes teach him silence for the rest of his life" Algerian writer Ahlem Mosteghanemi, Memory in the Flesh Bastion of Impunity, Mirage of ...

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Contact: Jeremie Smith, Director Geneva Office Phone Number: (+202) 27945341 / 27951112 E-mail: info@cihrs.org Language: ENGISH ONLY HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Eleventh session Written Statement submitted by The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), a non-governmental organization in special consultative ...

Human Rights Council-  11th Session Agenda Item 7- Human Rights Situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab Territories Oral Intervention 15 June, 2009 Delivered by Jeremie D. Smith Thank you Mr. President, In May 2009 a seminal study was released entitled “Occupation, Colonialism and Apartheid: A ...

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Contact: Jeremie Smith, Director Geneva Office Phone Number: (+202) 27945341 / 27951112 E-mail: info@cihrs.org Language: ENGLISH ONLY HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Eleventh Session Written Statement submitted by The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), a non-governmental organization in special consultative ...

Human Rights Council- 11th Session Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Oral Intervention - Item 6 - UPR KSA 10 June, 2009 Delivered by Dina Mansour Thank you Mr. President The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies commends Saudi Arabia for cooperation with the UPR ...

Human Rights Council Eleventh Session Item 6 Consideration of Universal Periodic Review Report on Djibouti Read by Mr. Hassan Shire Sheikh, East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network 9th June 2009 Mr. President, On behalf of a network of over 65 human rights organizations from ...

Human Rights Council – Session 11 Oral Intervention – Agenda Item 4:  General Debate Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Delivered by Dina Mansour Thank you Mr. President The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies would like to draw the attention of this Council ...

Human Rights Council: Session 11 Agenda Item 3:  General Debate-Special Rapp. on Freedom of Expression Oral Intervention 8 June, 2008 Delivered by Jeremie Smith Thank you Mr. President: This is a joint statement by CIHRS and the Asian Legal Resource Centre.  We would like to address ...

Human Rights Council - 11th Session Agenda Item 2:  General Debate- High Commissioners update 4 June, 2009 Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Delivered by Dina Mansour Thank you Mr. President. Thank you Madame High Commissioner The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies would once again ...