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On April 9, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies received a visit from a Danish delegation, based upon an invitation from the Danish embassy in Cairo, the delegation constituted of Arabic language students affiliated to the language institute, which follows the Danish military.
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Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) recently published a book entitled "The Jurisprudence of Trials of Literary and Artistic Works: A Study of Discourse and Interpretation", by Moroccan researcher, Wafaa Silawi. The book addresses several issues, namely, the mechanisms of legal discourse and the legal references of public freedoms law; the phases of trials of intellectuals (notification and summons, interrogation, pleading, and ruling). The study also tackles the issue of text reading and how different orientations and ideologies could influence the interpretation of the text.
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On November 28th 2002, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) presented its Concluding observations on the third and fourth reports submitted by the government of the Arab Republic of Egypt. The HRC pointed out to subjects of concern including practices in breach of Article (18) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), concerning the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion and of observing Baha'i rituals . The reply drafted by the Egyptian government (which was incorporated within the third and fourth reports) was obsessed with dealing with the political embarrassment caused by the Committee's observations on the second report of the Egyptian government.
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Under the title: "Freedom of Expression Across Cultures", CIHRS organized a workshop in cooperation with the International Media Support (IMS), and in coordination with the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), the Moroccan Organization of Human Rights (OMDH), and the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies (DCHRS), in Cairo in the period 7-8 December 2006. A group of Journalists, Human Rights Defenders, artists, novelists and academics from Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Syria, Morocco, Denmark and France participated in the workshop.
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The activities of the program titled "Freedom of Expression cross cultures" organized by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and the International Media Support (IMS) were concluded yesterday in Copenhagen, the program was held in coordination with the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights, the Damascus Center for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, and Article 19. The activities took place during the period 1-5 November 2006, with the participation of a number of Egyptian and Danish journalists and Danish activists. The purpose of the program was to support the dialogue between Egyptian and Danish journalists regarding problems related to freedom of opinion and expression in European and Arab contexts, the repercussions of the Danish caricature crisis, and identify the experiences and lessons drawn by each party to support freedom of expression and cement cooperation between civilizations on the two borders of the Mediterranean.
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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies is holding an academic symposium on Tuesday,18 to 20 April 2006, under the title “Human rights and the renewal of religious discourse: How can the Arab world benefit from the experiences of the non-Arab Islamic world?” It is being held in cooperation with the Swedish Institute in Alexandria and the Liberal Islam Network in Indonesia, in coordination with the International Federation of Human Rights and the Euro-Mediterranean Network for Human Rights, and with funding from the European Commission. Approximately 40 participants will attend, including Islamic intellectuals, researchers specialized in Islamic studies, legal specialists, and Islamic political activists from 14 countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa, Iran, Sudan, Qatar, Sweden, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen, and Egypt).
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