Paris Witnesses the Launching of the First International Documentation Center on Human Rights
In the Arab World

Press Statement

On the 10th of June in Paris, the first documentation center on human rights in the Arab world is to be launched. This event will be in cooperation with the International Contemporary Documentation Library (BDIC), Nanterre University; Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS); Ahmed Othmani Foundation, Paris, (represented by Simon Othmani as head of the Foundation); the Committee on Respecting Freedom and Human Rights in Tunisia, Paris (represented by Kamal Jendoubi); and Generic Association which works on Arab migrants to France (represented by Idris Yazmy).  
Such documentation center will have available documents –now and in the future – on the status of human rights and human rights organizations in the Arab world. Such documents will include reports, statements, publications, and audio-visual products in three languages: Arabic, English and French. All these will be accessible for researchers in the field. CIHRS is entrusted with gathering documents from the Arab countries. In effect, CIHRS has already sent its own publications (373 publications to date).
The launch will comprise a signing ceremony for the founding parties. Bahey Ed-Din Hassan, Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, will make a presentation about the status of human rights in the Arab world using the CIHRS annual report, "From Exporting Terrorism to Exporting Repression", as the main source.