the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information …
Save the Date Tuesday October 8th 2013 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders
The City of Geneva and the Martin Ennals Foundation are honored to invite you to the 2013 edition of this award. The laureate will be announced at the Ceremony on: …
One year into Mohamed Morsi’s term
Manifold abuses and the systematic undermining of the rule of law
Joint press release by 20 rights organizations The undersigned organizations regret to announce that the status of human rights in Egypt has deteriorated alarmingly in the one year since the …
Administrative repression
Originally Posted in Al-Ahram weekly By: Mohamed Zaree Egypt’s draft NGO law reproduces the tools the Mubarak regime developed to repress dissent and innovation in society, writes Mohamed Zaree On …
How will history remember President Morsi?
Originally Posted in Al-Ahram weekly By: Bahieddin Hassan Mohamed Morsi has done more than generations of secularists to convince Egyptians that politics and religion shouldn’t mix, writes Bahieddin Hassan President …
Human Rights Council must do more to protect human rights in Palestine, Syria, Egypt
The 23rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Council), which concluded on 14 June 2013, began with a special focus on Syria and the deteriorating situation in …
Sentencing “Karam Saber” to five years for charges of defamation of religion is a flagrant violation of freedom of opinion and expression
The undersigned organizations condemn the sentence in absentia by the Beba court of misdemeanor in Beni Eouief (see below) against writer and human rights activist and director of the …
In an oral intervention to the UN: Instead of accountability for violations, international community offers Israel political rewards
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and Al-Haq presented an oral intervention to the UN Human Rights Council (the Council),on Monday, june 10, in which they condemned the …
77 international and regional organizations urge the Human Rights Council to stop attempts to undermine UPR
United Nations Human Rights Council: 23rd Session Joint Oral statement Item 6 – General Debate 10 June 2013, UPR Info Thank you Mr. President, Civil society is deeply concerned …
30 regional and international organizations condemn US violations to its international obligations in Guantanamo
Item 4 General Debate HRC 23 5 June 2013 Thank you Mr. president, The United States continues to detain individuals for indefinite periods without charge or trial at Guantanamo …