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Bahey eldin Hassan, the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, met with Isolde Moylan, the Irish ambassador in Cairo, at the offices of the CIHRS. The meeting, also attended by Garrett O’Brien, the second secretary at the Irish embassy, and Alexandra Dan, the program development officer at the CIHRS, focused on the CIHRS’s assessment of political developments related to human rights in Egypt, Sudan, and Palestine, where Moylan also serves as ambassador.
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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies organized a parallel conference for the seventh Forum for the Future summit, to be held in Qatar in November 2010. Titled “Horizons of Political Reform in the Arab World,” the conference was attended by representatives of civil society in the Arab world, their peers from Europe and the US, and academics, media experts, and journalists. The conference was held on July 27 and 28, 2010, in Cairo, with support from the Middle East Partnership Initiative.
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On the 58th anniversary of the July 23 revolution, Bahey eldin Hassan, the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, said, “The political system established by the July revolution did not come to an end with the death of its founder, President Gamal Abd al-Nasser.
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Hosni Mubarak's regime may be wobbling, but persistent divides within the Egyptian opposition have prevented the movement from capitalizing on their opportunity.
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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) in cooperation with the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) and Heinrich Boll Stiftung – North America, would like to invite you to attend a joint seminar titled "The American Foreign Policy and Human Rights and Democracy Issues", which will be held on Wednesday, May 19th 2010, at the Cairo Institute, starting 11:00 am until 2:30 pm.
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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies hosted a meeting this morning between the Forum of Independent Human Rights Organizations, an umbrella group of 16 Egyptian organizations, and representatives from 19 states. The meeting was held to discuss the Government's proposed amendments to the NGO law that make it even more repressive than the original.
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The Forum of Independent Human Rights Organizations strongly condemns the vicious repression by the Egyptian security apparatus of peaceful protestors on April 6 which turned Cairo into a military barracks.
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Ten Egyptian human rights organizations met yesterday with Dr. Mohamed El Baradei, the chair of the National Association for Change, in his home (the temporary headquarters of the association).
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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies hosted a meeting this morning between the Forum of Independent Human Rights Organizations, an umbrella group of 16 Egyptian organizations, and representatives from 17 states. The meeting was held to discuss the report submitted by the Egyptian government as part of the Universal Periodic Review procedure in preparation for the June session at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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The Forum of Independent Egyptian Human Rights Organizations said that the Egyptian government should take immediate and transparent measures to draft a detailed action plan. The action plan ought to include measurable goals and a clear timeline for implementing the recommendations that the government vowed to honor, as part of the four-year Universal Periodic Review (UPR), before the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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