Dear Members of the European Parliament, The Human Rights and Democracy Network (HRDN) and its 68 members congratulate you on your election or re-election in the European Parliament. We look …
56th Session of the UN Human Rights Council:
Rights Protections Undermined as Victims Increasingly Abandoned
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) expressed profound concern over the increasing abandonment of victims of wide-spread and severe human rights violations throughout the MENA region and wider world, …
Egypt: Sudanese Refugee Othman Hussein Yaqoub Mansour Must Be Immediately Released as Deportation Procedures Violate Egyptian and International Law
The undersigned organizations condemn the Egyptian authorities’ arrest and detention of Sudanese refugee and community leader Othman Hussein Yaqoub Mansour, Director of the African Vision School for Sudanese Education in …
World Refugee Day: for the defence of human rights in the Euro-Mediterranean region, stop with European externalisation policies.
Today, on World Refugee Day, and following the results of the recent European elections, EuroMed Rights and its member organisations denounce the rapidly deteriorating conditions faced by people on the …
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 …
55th Session of the UN Human Rights Council: Between Palestine and Ukraine
Double-standards and silence in the face of atrocities are eroding the UN rights system
On 5 April, the longest session in the history of the United Nations Human Rights Council came to an end. Over a six-week period, UN member states debated and voted …
CIHRS 27th Regional Forum for the Human Rights Movement
‘Human Rights at a Crossroads’
On 13 and 14 April, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) convened the 27th Regional Forum for the Human Rights Movement, titled ‘Human Rights at a Crossroads’. The …
Joint NGO letter: The EU must urgently act at one year of conflict in Sudan
Dear High Representative Borrell, Dear EU Foreign Ministers, One year on from the start of the conflict in Sudan on 15 April 2023, and as the Foreign Affairs Council meets …
Salon Ibn Rushd: Sudan’s forgotten catastrophe; national, regional, and international resolve needed to end the war
On 2 April 2024, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) hosted a seminar as part of the monthly activities of Salon Ibn Rushd, titled ‘The forgotten catastrophe: Is …
Egyptian authorities must end arbitrary detentions and forced deportations of Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers
The undersigned organizations urge the Egyptian authorities to immediately stop the serious abuses against Sudanese seeking refuge in Egypt. After issuing Decree No. 3326 of 2023, end of August 2023, …