On 10 June, twelve regional and international human rights organizations, including the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, sent a joint letter to representatives of member states and observer states …
Egypt: Hope Coalition detainees must be immediately released, after nearly two years of wrongful imprisonment
View PostEgypt: President Should Act to Unshackle Freedoms
We the undersigned 64 organizations from around the world call on the Egyptian authorities, including President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to take immediate action to end the Egyptian authorities’ wholesale crackdown on independent organizations and peaceful dissent.
Egypt: Human rights organizations condemn the referral of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to the Emergency Supreme State Security Court and demand his immediate release
The undersigned organizations condemn the referral of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master’s student at the Central European University in Austria (CEU), to an urgent trial before the Emergency Supreme …
Egypt: Biden’s Budget Request Continues “Blank Check”
We, the undersigned organizations, write to express strong disappointment that the administration has requested $1.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing for Egypt for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. President Biden campaigned …
Palestine: CIHRS Welcomes Adoption of Historic Resolution Establishing a CoI Addressing the Palestinian People on Both Sides of the Green Line During 30th HRC Special Session
Yesterday, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted[1] a historic resolution[2] establishing a standing Commission of Inquiry to address Israel’s latest and ongoing violations against the Palestinian people on …
Joint NGO Letters on the 2021 UN Human Rights Council Elections
25th May 2021 To: Member States of the African Union Re: Africa Group candidates for UN Human Rights Council elections, 2021 Excellencies, We are writing to commend the African Union …
Palestine: Call for Action
HRC 30th Special Session: Call on the United Nations Human Rights Council to adopt a resolution on the grave human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and in Israel
Palestine: Ocasio-Cortez, Pocan and Tlaib Lead Joint Resolution to Block Weapon Sales to Netanyahu
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) joined more than 70 human rights organizations in the United States of America, in their support for members of the US House …
Africa | A polycentric approach to border externalization: Legal strategies to contest migrants’ rights violations
Conclusions of a joint international conference