The undersigned Organisations call on the Syrian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Mazen Darwish, a prominent Syrian human rights defender and Director of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) – an organization that enjoys UN ...

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 ...

Egyptians bid farewell to 2011 with news of raids and closure of human rights organizations last week. Although the news is nothing short of shocking, “shocking” has been the characteristic feature of Egypt in 2011. The world was shocked to ...

  The undersigned organizations condemn the broad, ongoing attack on human rights organizations and civil society, which today included raids on several rights organizations that actively work to promote democracy. Police and military forces, accompanied by members of the Public Prosecution, ...

Urgent Appeal: Egypt: National and International Human Rights Organizations are Under Attack Egyptian security forces, in uniform and in civilian clothes, and public prosecutors have stormed the offices of: Arab Center for Independence of Justice and Legal Professions (ACIJP) (Egyptian NGO), ...

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), in particular within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, and FIDH member organization, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies ...

The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) hails the courageous work of the many human rights defenders in the Arab region who were - and still are - one of the locomotives for change. 2011 has been marked as ...