One year after the repeal of the state of emergency in Algeria, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and ...

Press Release:A coalition of ten international and national NGOs today addressed French Prime Minister François Fillon in a public letter calling for Alkarama’s executive director Dr Mourad Dhina not be extradited to Algeria, where he risks torture. The Prime Minister ...

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 ...

December 2 2011. To: Commissioner Kayitesi Zainabo Sylvie, Chairperson, WGC; Commissioner Reine Alapini-Gansou, Member, WGC; Commissioner Pacifique Manirakiza, Member, WGC; Dr Mary Maboreke, Secretary to the African Commission, Member, WGC;   Re: Welcoming Creating of WGC, Reiterating Litigants Concerns on the Protective Mandate, Request for a Meeting ...

This book involves the discussions of a workshop on “Islam and Democracy ” it was held by CIHRS in October 2002. A number of important questions were raised in this meeting; among them: What are the points of agreement and ...