Photo by: Paola Daher, CIHRS (22 March, 2013 – Geneva)  The 22nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Council) comes to an end on 22 March.    While the Council has been heavily criticized in the past for ...

Photo by: Kirolos Nathan, CIHRS Egyptian human rights defenders representing the Egyptian NGO Forum, a group of 23 independent Egyptian human rights organizations, have been present at the 22nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva throughout ...

As part of the activities of the 22nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), currently convened in Geneva, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) presented an oral intervention before the HRC, March 12, 2013, in ...

Click here to view the Report Today, 12 March 2013, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) released a report entitled “Cut off from the World: Systematic Reprisals against Human Rights Defenders in the Gulf Region for Engaging with ...

At UN Human Rights Council: On Wednesday, 6 March 2013, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) co-sponsored a side event entitled “In Defense of Defenders: The Critical Need to Protect Human Rights Defenders in the MENA Region” as part ...

Yesterday, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) participated in a meeting with the  Ministry of Justice to discuss drafting a new NGO law. CIHRS representatives at the meeting objected to including a bill drafted by the Ministry of ...

 BY: Ragab Saad Photo: AP On Wednesday, following increased protests throughout Egypt, the Ministry of Justice announced a draft law that seeks to restrict the right to demonstrate in public places. Since the revolution, Egyptian authorities have spoken of the ...

Last month, Egyptian teachers came from every governorate and gathered on Qasr al-Aini Street in front of the Cabinet. They were fed up with their financial conditions and were tired of being ignored. After gathering exactly one year earlier to demand ...

In the first one hundred days of Mohamed Morsy’s presidency, human rights issues remained neglected and state authorities continued to violate human rights, even though the current president possesses more legislative and executive powers than any president before him. The ...

Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL) and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) welcome the condemnation of to the destruction of Sufi religious sites in Libya by three of the United Nations’ (UN) independent experts, including the Special Rapporteur on Freedom ...