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Yesterday, August 4, the 17th student seminar on human rights concluded with an open debate on democracy and human rights in Egypt, featuring Bahey eldin Hassan, the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies; Judge Ashraf al-Baroudi, the president of the Court of Appeals; and Sinai activist Musaad Abu Fagr, recently released from detention. Thirty participants, chosen from over 150 applicants, took part in the seminar where they learned about current human rights issues on the international, regional, and local levels. Most of the participants were Egyptian university students.
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The fourth regional training course on International Human Rights Mechanisms will start tomorrow in Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, and will last for seven days: 2-8 July, 2010.
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The Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) in cooperation with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Georgetown University's Center for Democracy and Civil Society, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) are now accepting applications for our 3rd annual regional conferences in Egypt from 4 to 6 November 2009. The Conference will be hosted in partnership with the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS).
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The Regional Human Rights Monitoring workshop which was held in Cairo from May 29-31 2008 concluded the "Youth for Human Rights" program, which is the first distance learning program in Arabic aiming at training young Arab human rights defenders on advocacy and monitoring. The "Youth for Human Rights Program" has been jointly organized by the Human Rights Education Associates (HREA), the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), and the Arab Institute for Human Rights (AIHR).
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The second training workshop on “International and Regional Mechanisms for Human Rights” has been held at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) for 8 days from the 28th of March to the 4th of April 2008. The training workshop involved a total of 20 lawyers, NGO activists and human rights defenders from Egypt, with the participation of a Yemeni human rights activist. This is the second workshop on the topic of International and Regional human rights mechanisms organized at CIHRS since February 2008.
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The proceedings of the First Training Course held 20-26th of February was organized by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies )CIHRS(. The topic was "Capacity Building in the Sphere of Using International and Regional Mechanisms for the Protection of Human Rights". The concluding day was dedicated to a review of the results of the course, through diverse presentations by participants. This was done to test the skills the participants acquired during the training on the use of international mechanisms for the protection of human rights, either in verbal interventions, filing complaints or drafting shadow reports.
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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) has been awarded the French Republic Human Rights Award for the year 2007. CIHRS was awarded the prize in recognition of its activities in the domain of "freedom of opinion and expression and the dialogue between cultures."
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The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) in cooperation with its member organisation in Egypt ,The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), held a public meeting for EMHRN’s Working Group on Migration and Asylum, in order to discuss the situation of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Egypt.The meeting was held at Shepheard Hotel in Cairo on Friday , the 20th of October 20007.
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The fourteenth Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies annual summer school brought together 42 participants eager to learn about and understand the current Human Rights issues as they stand internationally, regionally and locally. The participants were comprised mainly of undergraduate Egyptian college students with a few graduate and foreign students. They were chosen from 250 applicants who had heard of the school through the Employment Fair at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, announcements at Non-governmental organizations, and from previous participants.
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A training course organized by the Danish Institute for Human Rights & CIHRS: Cairo, November 4-8, 2007
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