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 ...

 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 ...

  The United Nations working group of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) met on the 28th of January to review the human rights record of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Despite Ambassador and State Minister of Foreign Affairs Anwar Mohammed Gargash's statement ...

Oussame Boujeile (pictured) and Chaine Bilrish face prison for their political graffiti. While welcoming moves to implement measures that guarantee media independence, the IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (IFEX-TMG), a coalition of 21 IFEX members, calls on the Tunisian government to ...

At the 21st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council currently underway in Geneva, several states from North Africa will accept the final recommendations of the Universal Periodic Reviews of the state of human rights in their territories.  Among ...

UN Human Rights Council: 21st session Oral Intervention: Item 6-Tunisia UPR Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) 19 September 2012 Delivered by: Kamal Labidi The Tunisian government must uphold its commitments to protect freedom of opinion and expression I never imagined that I would appear ...

The Omani government should drop its cases against nine online activists and a demonstrator who were convicted of crimes solely for exercising their rights to free expression. The cases are before the Omani appeals court. On July 16, 2012, the Muscat ...

Human Rights Council: Session 11 Agenda Item 3:  General Debate-Special Rapp. on Freedom of Expression Oral Intervention 8 June, 2008 Delivered by Jeremie Smith Thank you Mr. President: This is a joint statement by CIHRS and the Asian Legal Resource Centre.  We would like to address ...

(EOHR/IFEX) - The following is a joint letter by 35 members and partners of IFEX and the Arab Working Group to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: We, the undersigned organisations dedicated to freedom of expression, call upon the Syrian government to drop ...

Within the Ibn-Rashid Saloon, the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies organized a symposium titled “Why Did the Islamic Nation Fail in the Modern Age?” Among those who participated were the Islamic thinker Gamal El-Banna and the Islamic history teacher ...