On 23 September 2025, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) held its monthly Ibn Rushd Salon under the title: ‘The Arab World: From Dreams of Arab Unity to …
The AIMC must end its role in transnational repression, say NGOs
The undersigned organisations call on the Arab Interior Ministers’ Council (AIMC) to cease its facilitation of arbitrary extraditions of peaceful dissidents and human rights defenders across Arab League countries and …
TAE’THIR CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
T H E M E “Resisting Defeatism” Humanity has endured endless tests throughout the recent decades, with the past year proving particularly devastating. The ongoing genocidal wars in Gaza and …
Priorities of the human rights movement amid a region in crisis and a crumbling international order
Conclusions of the 27th Regional Forum of the Human Rights Movement The future of human rights in the Arab region faces a compounded crisis. On the one hand, the ability …
The human rights setback on the Universal Declaration’s diamond jubilee
Message of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies on the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United …
A Message from Civil Society in the Arab Region to the Summit for Democracy
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In June 30 the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) joined a joint statement between twenty international human rights organizations, calling on member states of the United Nations to …
CIHRS Tenth Annual Report: New aspects of human rights crises during the Covid-19 pandemic
“The human rights situation in the Arab region, which has already been deteriorating for years, is deteriorating even more rapidly with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, especially afflicting economic …
CIHRS 23rd Regional Forum of the Human Rights Movement: Prospects of Reform in the Arab World in Post COVID-19 Realities
CIHRS 23rd Regional Forum of the Human Rights Movement (August / September 2020) With growing attention given to the potential effects of COVID-19 on the increasingly eroding prospects of reform …
CIHRS and UNDEF partner up in new project to empower the next generation of human rights defenders in the Middle East and North Africa
Funded by the United Nations Democracy Fund and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), in partnership with Réseau Euromed France (REF) , Instants Vidéo and Ligue de …
Civil Society Organizations Raise COVID-19 Human Rights Priorities with OHCHR
On 9 April 2020, the Human Rights Council held its first online informal briefing to address the challenges to human rights resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. During the meeting, the …
CIHRS Ninth Annual Report: Evocations of the Arab Spring Amid Newly Drawn Armed Conflicts
With the uprisings and forces of democratization and political reform either smothered or preemptively stricken over the last several years, the Arab region is now experiencing renewed hope. The values …
CIHRS in its annual report: Arab governments’ hostility to reform and change exacerbated civil wars and terrorism
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies said that the Arab world is witnessing an unparalleled deterioration in the human rights situation amid armed conflicts and civil wars resulting from …
CIHRS Examines the Human Rights Situation in Syria, Libya, Palestine, Yemen and Qatar
CIHRS Welcomes the New High Commissioner, and Calls for Further Efforts Against Repression and Corruption in the Region On September 8, the UN Human Rights Council opened its 27th session …
17 Regional and International Human Rights Organizations Urge Arab Foreign Ministers to Amend Proposal for an Arab Court of Human Rights
On 31 August, 17 regional and international human rights organizations sent a joint statement to Arab foreign ministers, urging them to delay their adoption of a statute on an Arab …