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Today the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies released its second annual report on the state of human rights in the Arab world for the year 2009. The report, entitled Bastion of Impunity, Mirage of Reform, concludes that the human rights situation in the Arab region has deteriorated throughout the region over the last year.
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Report uncovering media coverage of the Darfur crisis shows that Sudanese and Arab media give little priority to the Darfur conflict and when covered, they mainly focus on the political aspects. When covered, the findings show, 33,7 percent of the total time devoted by electronic news media to the Darfur conflict focused on the work of the work of the diplomatic community, while conditions for refugees received only 4,7 percent of the air time.
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Many analysts have noticed serious developments regarding the analysis and reporting in some Egyptian “independent” newspapers lately. Such developments include the way these “independent” newspapers deal with the state’s security reports and investigations without questioning their accuracy or asking for comments from any person or bodies related to these reports, or raising different points of view.
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Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies CIHRS organized jointly with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace a panel discussion on 10 January 2009, with the aim of evaluating American policies vis-à-vis human rights in the Arab region.
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The first Annual Report on human rights and the Arab region by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), entitled From Exporting Terrorism to Exporting Repression, was released on the 5th of December, 2008, in anticipation of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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(New York, December 2, 2008) – Recent claims by the Sudanese government that the situation in Darfur is improving are not borne out by reality, fifteen organizations said in a report released today.
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“Woman’s rights is an important measure for democratic reform in the region.” said Kamel Jendoubi, President of the EMHRN, in his opening speech at the Regional Planning and Coordination meeting on Istanbul Action Plan held in Cairo on 11 May 2008. The meeting, organised by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), in collaboration with the Cairo Institute for Human rights Studies (CIHRS) , aimed at high-lighting the importance of Istanbul Action Plan for promoting women’s rights and gender equality in the Mediterranean
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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) strongly condemns the document entitled “Principles regulating Radio and Satellite TV Transmission and Receiving in the Arab Region”, adopted by the Council of Arab Information Ministers. CIHRS confirms that the document disguised by media professional ethics rhetoric aims primarily at providing a fake national and ethical cover to limit the freedom margin exercised by the media outlets in some of the Arab countries. This margin of freedom was allowed either due to the influence of the global communications and information revolution or the internal and external pressures for democracy.
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The deliberations in the consultative meeting held in Cairo on December 29th, 2007, in cooperation with the UN High Commission of Human Rights, Amnesty International, and Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) in order to discuss the methods of activating the Arab Charter of Human Rights (ACHR) were based on the well known juristic rule that “what can not be fully attained should not be completely discarded”.
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