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The significance of the study becomes clear in light of the current moves by the government to amend the present law, something that will probably result in imposing additional restrictions on NGOs. In particular, the official moves to amend the law come at a time that is witnessing extensive legislative attacks on liberties, and increasing tendency to oppress the rights of expression and association and other forms of political and social mobility. It is worth noting that the deliberations regarding amending the law came simultaneously as the closing down of two human rights organizations for the first time since the establishment of human rights organizations.
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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) published a new book entitled "Experiences of Audio-Visual Media in Europe", which encompasses various studies on the development of visual media in Europe, and reviews European expertise in the development of mass media, particularly the British, French and Czech models. The book also contains criteria set by the Council of Europe in the domain of audio-visual media, in coordination with the publishing unit of the Council, in addition to selected chapters from the television report in Europe published by the Open Society Institute in 2005, in coordination with the media program of the Institute.
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Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) published a new book, in English, which contains thorough reports on the activities accomplished in the program on Freedom of Opinion and Expression across Cultures. This program, which is an initiative from the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies in collaboration with the Euro-Mediterranean Network for Human Rights, Article 19 Organization, the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights and the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies, lasted for six months with the cooperation of a number of Arab and International organizations.
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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies published a new documentary book entitled "Freedom of the Media and Fairness of Elections". The book encompasses standards listed by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression in his report to the Human Rights Commission in 1999 and the recommendations of the Committee of Ministers inside the Council of Europe (Strasbourg) of 1999 and their explanatory note. The book also includes a draft code of honor proposed by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) in addition to standards put forth by the International Journalist Federation on press code of ethics, and recommendations proposed by the Lebanese Association for Electoral Democracy.
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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. In this context, the book deals with several case-studies such as Taha Hussein's book entitled "Pre-Islamic Poetry", "The Jurisprudence of Arabic Language" by Louis Awad, "A Thousand and One Nights" and others.
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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, CIHRS, published a study entitled "Beyond Darfur: Identity and Civil War in Sudan", by Sudanese researcher Al-Baqer Al-Afif, former campaign officer at Amnesty International. The author observes and analyzes the Arab media reactions and the standpoints of the World Federation of Muslim Scholars and some famous Islamic intellectuals in the region, in addition to Sudanese political parties, vis-à-vis crimes committed in Darfur.
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This book addresses the features of the legal system in Sudan, more specifically under the 1998 Constitution, the status of human rights in the Sudanese legal system, Sudan's international human rights obligations, provisions related to human rights in Sudanese constitutions, human rights in laws governing judiciary bodies, provisions relevant to human rights in laws regulating law enforcement bodies, provisions relevant to freedom of expression, religious freedoms, academic and artistic freedoms, the rights of women and the rights of children. The book then reviews examples of Sudanese court rulings in cases related to human rights.
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Religious discourse faces three major predicaments in the Arab World, namely, religion versus the state, the relationship with the "Other", and human rights under globalization. Years and decades have passed while religious discourse in the Arab World failed to produce acceptable visions both at the institutional and popular levels, visions able to provide solutions to the aforementioned predicaments. Meanwhile an opinion is growing that we are the center of the Islamic World and hence should generate solutions to non-Arab Muslims. We have never thought during those decades that non-Arab Muslims are better off politically, economically, and intellectually, and that they can help us reach solutions to our chronic problems.
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Culture is not well
|Ahmed Abdel Mo'tie Hejazy
| 09/11/2005
Rethinking our selves became a determinate issue. The book is an intellectual response on the part of poet Ahmed Abdel Mo'tie Hejazy due to some reasons that urge us to revisit our near past and present. The writer discusses several matters centered around and emerging from the cultural thing, and from them he presents a "final exposure " for 50 years over which we raised some banners, then replaced many times by others, and we established political, administrative, economic, cultural and social systems; then replaced by some others, we fought continued wars against occupants and tyrants, or the magols of the inside and of the outside, and we lost most of them and came out of them tied and hurted.
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As much as the Syrian intellectuals in Syria had seen themselves as the makers of politics and the initiators of its fields as they founded the parties, they had found themselves in the end of 1990’s as victims of politics and totally marginalized as well. This is the drastic change that this book is revealing by tracing the historical relationships between the educated and intellectual ones in one side and the authorities in Syria on the other side, raising several questions about the social upbringing of the Syrian intellectuals and the styles of this relationship through its long history starting from the second decade of the twentieth century until now.
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