KAMPALA, Uganda and GENEVA, Switzerland,11 March 2024 - AfricanDefenders (Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network) and the Committee for Justice (CFJ) have jointly petitioned the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, on behalf of Mr. Ahmed Salem, Director of the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights....
This article was first published on the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies' website The undersigned rights organizations strongly condemn the Egyptian government’s relentless closure of all outlets for civil society activity in the country, as demonstrated once again by the recent issuance, in January 2021,...
This statement was first published by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies The undersigned Egyptian human rights organizations call on the Public Prosecution to release Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master’s researcher at the Central European University (CEU) in Austria, given that the investigations concerning him...
Mrs. Soyata Maiga, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Banjul, Gambia Dear Chairperson, Re: Protest Petition against the poor treatment accorded to civil society organisations during the 38th forum of the NGO forum preceding the 64th session of the ordinary session in Sharma El Sheikh...
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...
