Press release on the launch of CIHRS’ annual report on the state of human rights in the Arab region Two years after the “Arab Spring” swept the Arab region and led within months to the ouster of the autocratic rulers in ...

Click here to view the synopsis of the report This report evaluates the situation of human rights in Egypt and 12 other Arab countries, describing the battle for the “Arab Spring” that continues to be waged on three fronts: between ...

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 ...

  Today, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) issues its third annual report on the state of human rights in the Arab world in 2010, with a special focus on 12 countries: Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, ...

  "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 ...

Produced by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, this report documents and analyzes significant human rights developments in the Arab region during 2008, with a particular focus on several key countries. The report largely focuses on significant legislative developments and ...