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CAIRO: Over the past two decades, the Egyptian political playground has experienced various political and social forces that helped create a platform for people to express their opinions freely without any restrictions.
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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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CIHRS looking to hire media monitors, to track coverage of the upcoming parliamentary elections through various newspaper and television outlets. This project is supported by major international donors, includes fully supported training on how to be a media monitor, and requires flexibility and immediate availability on the part of the monitor.
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For several decades, Egypt has lived under an authoritarian political regime whose roots date back to the 1952 revolution, when a group of army officers--who came to be called the Free Officers--overthrew the quasi-liberal monarchy that had ruled Egypt for 30 years.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2010 – WASHINGTON, D.C.
A year after President Obama called for a new beginning in U.S. relations with the Muslim world, it remains unclear the role human rights play in Washington’s policies in the Arab region. While the recently released National Security Strategy includes the promotion of democracy and human rights abroad as a core foreign policy value, there are lingering questions as to how this will be translated into action.
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The latest session of the UN Human Rights Council, which ended on june 18 , has highlighted the political malaise that has made it difficult for the world’s preeminent human rights body to carry out its primary purpose of addressing rights violations throughout the world.
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For 16 years the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies has been organizing the annual workshop for Human Rights for university students. It introduces participants to the basic principles of human rights and gives the opportunity to communicate directly with some of the most important actors in this field in Egypt and the Arab world.
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The undersigned organizations are deeply concerned by the ongoing trial of lawyer and rights activist Muhannad al-Hassani, the chair of the Syrian Human Rights Organization-Sawasiyah. Because of his work, he has been charged with harming the dignity of the state, weakening national sentiment, and disseminating false news that weakens the nation’s morale, all charges often used by the Syrian authorities against critical writers, journalists, political activists, and human rights defenders.
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(Geneva, 10 June) Our organisations regret that the Human Rights Council has decided to defer its discussion of the human rights situation in Sudan to its fifteenth session in September 2010.
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(13 June, 2010)- The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) concluded its first review of the human rights situation in Egypt under the new Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism. The Geneva meeting on 11 June, in which the Egyptian government pledged to implement 140 recommendations presented by other state delegations, took place only a month after the Egyptian government renewed the 29 year State of Emergency for another two years, in effect suspending most civil rights throughout the country.
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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 called upon the United Nations to conduct immediate investigations that would comply by international law standards in relation to the appalling attacks that Israel committed against the humanitarian aid flotilla. At the same time, the Cairo Institute also emphasizes the need to end such impunity that encourages the Israeli government to continuously commit crimes against international humanitarian law. Furthermore, it is imperative that Israel abides by the Goldstone report recommendations in regards to the war crimes and the crimes against humanity that it committed during the last Gaza War.
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