Thank you Madam President, As encouraged by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 18/118, we wish to address the topic of reprisals against individuals and groups following their cooperation with the United Nations. Of particular concern to us is the ...

Today, before the United Nations Human Rights Council, twenty seven governments from around the world joined together for the first time to deliver a declaration calling on Bahrain to cease grave human rights violations being carried out against pro-democracy activists ...

Yesterday, Wednesday 27 June, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) delivered an oral intervention before the 20th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) addressing the deteriorating human rights situation in Syria. The oral intervention recognized the several ...

Sudanese officials should fully respect the right of citizens to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, said the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies on Wednesday, June 27. Since June 16, 2012, and continuing throughout the past week, student demonstrations have ...

In a side event at the 20th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, CIHRS sponsored a re-launch of its annual report on the state of human rights in the Arab world, originally released in Cairo on June ...

The undersigned associations and civil organizations calling for the necessity that the Iraqi ministry of Interior should revise its decisions of closing and harassing of nearly 40 media means under the allegations of not having permits. They also calling the ...

The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) delivered an oral intervention before the 20th session of the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council, addressing in it the human rights situation in Egypt amid the intensifying control practiced by the Supreme ...

On Tuesday, June 26, the First Circuit Administrative Court – Individual Disputes, headed by Counselor Ali Fekry, issued a decision to revoke Decree No. 4991/2012 of the Minister of Justice that granted military intelligence and military police judicial powers to arrest ...

On 19 June 2012, due to their deteriorating health, women human rights defenders Basma Al-Keumy, lawyer, and Basma Al-Rajehy, writer and TV broadcaster, ended their hunger strike aimed at their administrative detention which continued until 24 June 2012 and the ...

Joint NGO Letter to State Delegations at the United Nations Human Rights Council: Your Excellency, Since February 2011 the human rights situation in Bahrain has witnessed a severe deterioration. Widespread  human rights violations have been carried out against peaceful protestors calling for ...