This article was first published by Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. The undersigned rights organizations condemn the execution of nine young men on Wednesday February 20th following an unjust, politicized trial rife with torture and due process violations. We further reject the Egyptian government’s politicization...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]*Version française ci-dessous* On 19 February 2019, Tunis became part of AfricanDefenders’ (the Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network) Ubuntu Hub Cities initiative - an African-based relocation programme for human rights defenders (HRDs) at risk. The launch of the Ubuntu...
This article was first published by Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. The undersigned rights organizations condemn the Egyptian authorities’ latest spate of executions, with three people executed by hanging on February 13 and another three people hanged less than a week earlier on February 7....
This article was first published by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. With great sorrow, the Libya Platform mourns the death of human rights defender Ali Mohamed Abdelslam Nouh, who passed away on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019 after suffering from long illness and poor healthcare in Libya. Ali...
November 25 is the UN’s annual International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. One in every three women will experience physical or sexual violence at some point in their lives....
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) commends the European Parliament’s adoption of an urgency resolution on Egypt during its Thursday December 13 plenary session. “The resolution constitutes the Parliament’s most forceful condemnation to date of Egypt’s abysmal human rights record,” said Leslie Piquemal...
