U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Pillay. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse Today, 8 May 2013, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, issued a statement in which she expressed her deep concern regarding the critical state of human rights ...

Continuing with the blackout approach by the regime, the Minister of Finance presents the 2013-2014 draft budget to the Shura Council without making it available to citizens. الدكتور المرسي السيد حجازي وزير المالية Early this April and in complete secrecy, the ...

Joint Appeal by 22 Organizations Ms. Navanethem Pillay >United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palais Wilson 52 rue des Pâquis CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland Madam High Commissioner, The opening of a regional OHCHR bureau in Cairo has been ...

The undersigned human rights organizations are deeply concerned by reports and testimonies indicating that groups of demonstrators on Friday, 22 March, targeted individuals for the purpose of physically harming them. Citizens were targeted during clashes at various sites in Muqattam, ...

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 ...

In an Oral Intervention to the United Nations: Photo by: Kirolos Nathan, CIHRS In an oral intervention to the United Nations Human Rights Council presented yesterday, 5 March 2013, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, on behalf of the Egyptian ...

Yesterday, January 25, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies hosted a meeting at which several Egyptian human rights groups met with 25 representatives of diplomatic missions and international organizations working in Egypt to discuss the latest developments on the ...

CSF Firing tear gas and life bullets at the protestors in Port Said - Photo: Sada el balad A review of the situation in Egypt over the last eight months raises serious concerns about the extent to which the state ...

When the Shura Council appointed new members to the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), the process revealed an obvious political bias in the formation. The NCHR, tasked with defending human rights and placing pressure on state authorities to improve ...