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 ...

 In an Oral Intervention to the UN Human Rights Council: Yesterday, March 20, 2013, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) presented an oral intervention on the state of human rights in Libya before the United Nations Human Rights Council ...

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 ...

Your Excellency, On 21 or 22 March 2013, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will vote on the renewal of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The situation ...

Yesterday, March 4, 2013, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) presented an oral intervention on the legislation regulating the right to freedom of assembly in the Arab region before the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), whose 22nd ...

Photo: Reuters Yesterday, March 4, 2013, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies - in collaboration with Nazra for Feminist Studies, the New Woman Foundation, and the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women – presented an oral intervention on the state ...

Photo by: Paola Daher, CIHRS Today, Monday, February 25, marks the beginning of the twenty-second session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), taking place at its headquarters in Geneva.  The session’s events will continue until March 22, 2013. Non-governmental organizations ...

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 ...

On February 13, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) participated in a second meeting at the Ministry of Justice to discuss the new NGO law. During the meeting, CIHRS representatives received a copy of the draft law submitted ...

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 ...