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On 9/3/2010 as a side event to the thirteenth meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council, CIHRS and EIPR organized a seminar titled "human right in Egypt- counter terrorism law and the price of stability".
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(8 March, 2010 – Geneva) Egypt’s use of the Emergency Law to justify arbitrary detention and the use of exceptional courts was examined before the UN Human Rights Council today in a ground-breaking report presented by Martin Scheinin, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism. The report is the first issued by the main human rights body of the United Nations that deals exclusively with the human rights situation in Egypt. Representatives from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies attended the session in Geneva as observers and delivered oral interventions in which they supported the report’s recommendations and urged the government to implement them immediately.
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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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Fourteen Egyptian human rights groups today expressed their full support of the statement issued by the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights which condemned the Egyptian security forces for killing up to 60 migrants on the Egyptian side of the borders with Israeli since mid 2007
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The undersigned organizations strongly condemn Israeli measures and practices promoting Judaism while destroying the Arab and Islamic characteristics of Jerusalem and al Khalil. By incorporating the Ibrahimi Sanctuary and Bilal Mosque into its list of Jewish heritage sites, Israel ignores the norms and provisions of international humanitarian law that prohibit occupation forces from introducing changes to the cultural and religious heritage of the occupied territory.
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conference entitled "Human rights and their impact on poverty, violence and conflict in the Arab world" on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 7:15 Pm to 9:15 Pm .
location: Institute of Political Sciences in Paris (27 rue Saint-Guillaume Paris -75,007) Jack Hall Hapsahl .
Collaboration with the association sciences the Arab world
Cairo institute for Human Rights Studies
French League for Human Rights.
International Federation for Human Rights
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights
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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina has granted a human rights award to the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies “in appreciation of its distinguished, ongoing efforts in the field of human rights and its defense of freedom of expression,” the library said. The award includes a shield named for the late Dr. Adel Abu Zahra, a prominent civil society pioneer, and a monetary prize. Dr. Ismail Serag Eldin, the director of the library, will present the award later today to the Institute’s program coordinator, Samy Saad.
The CIHRS was awarded the French Republic Award for Human Rights in 2007.
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(Cairo) – Iranian authorities must immediately cease all attacks and security operations against the February 11th demonstrators, and release all individuals arrested and detained for allegedly conspiring to bring about a “velvet revolution” following the disputed June 12 elections, said a group of Arab human rights organizations in a public statement released today.
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The undersigned organizations strongly condemn and are profoundly concerned about repressive measures taken by the Iraqi authorities against the residents of Camp Ashraf. Located about 60 km north of Baghdad, the camp is home to some 3,500 Iranian refugees, largely members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahedin-e Khalq and their families.
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On Friday (19 February, 2010) as part of its review before the UN Human Rights Council, Egypt stood before governments from around the world and either rejected or failed to commit to important human rights reforms.
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Press Release: Egypt’s human rights record was reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council yesterday (17 February 2010). Egyptian human rights NGOs welcomed the inclusion of serious rights concerns and substantive recommendations to curb systemic abuses, including many that were presented by an independent NGO Coalition, were presented to the government by a number of states. Unfortunate, however, the Egyptian government failed to engage constructively with the review and instead chose to justify or deny human rights abuses. The government presented false information to the Council on issues such as the State of Emergency, issues of due process, and discrimination based on religion or belief.
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On Thursday afternoon, US President Barack Obama received a delegation of participants in the “Human Rights Summit” at the White House. The delegation included Bahey eldin Hassan, the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, and Gamal Eid, the director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information.
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (CSHR) : Organized a depth discussion of a new report by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and its implication for U.S policy with remarks from : Bahey Eldin Hassan ,General Director, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies / Jeremie Smith, Director, Geneva Office of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies / Radwan Ziadeh, Founding Director, Damascus Center for Human Rights studies .
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