The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) held a side event on freedom of association in Egypt this afternoon, 3 June 2013, as part of its activities at the 23rd session of the UN Human Rights Council, which is ...

The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies rejects in full the draft NGO law prepared by the Ministry of Justice. This draft law was the subject of a discussion in which the CIHRS participated yesterday at the ministry and which ...

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 ...

The undersigned organizations express their appreciation for the efforts put forth by the Human Rights Committee of the People’s Assembly to develop a new bill, put forward by the Freedom and Justice Party, to regulate non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil ...

The undersigned human rights organizations declare their utter rejection of the new draft law on non-governmental organizations (NGOs), prepared by the Ministry of Insurance and Social Affairs and which aims to nationalize civil society. Under this law civil society would ...

Thirty-nine human rights and development organizations have drafted a new law to regulate NGOs and sent a copy to Prime Minister Essam Sharaf. The proposed law provides for the autonomy of Egyptian civil society organizations from the state and its ...