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 ...

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)World Organization against Torture (OMCT)Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS - Egypt)Human Rights Center VIASNA (Belarus)ADC Memorial (Russia) Cairo - Saint-Petersburg - Minsk -  Paris – Geneva. Today, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council gave a strong response to the ...

YAOUNDE, CAMEROON Human rights defenders (HRDs) meeting in Cameroon at the first counterpart meeting of the PAHRD Net have learnt with shock and outrage at the arbitrary arrest and detention of Zimbabwe’s leading human rights lawyer Mrs Beatrice Mtetwa by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The undersigned human rights organizations declare their full and complete solidarity with all Omani human rights defenders who are currently in detention, especially those undertaking hunger strikes. 24 defenders and activists (including Basma Al-Kiyumi, Bassima Al-Rajhi, Saeed Al-Hashemi, Hamad Al-Kharusi, ...

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 ...