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The Forum of Independent Egyptian Human Rights Organizations said that the Egyptian government should take immediate and transparent measures to draft a detailed action plan. The action plan ought to include measurable goals and a clear timeline for implementing the recommendations that the government vowed to honor, as part of the four-year Universal Periodic Review (UPR), before the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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The undersigned non-governmental organizations wish to express their extreme dismay at recent news that the Ministry of Social Solidarity has completed a draft for a new NGO law. According to the latest leaked copy, the bill is more restrictive and draconian than repressive bill already in place. It is expected to pass into law with the approval of the government parliamentary majority in the coming month.
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Today the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies released its second annual report on the state of human rights in the Arab world for the year 2009. The report, entitled Bastion of Impunity, Mirage of Reform, concludes that the human rights situation in the Arab region has deteriorated throughout the region over the last year.
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Events
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(Tuesday 23 March 2010, Cairo) An unprecedented coalition of Arab organisations called today for the Arab League to demonstrate ”strong” and ”constructive” leadership on Sudan ahead of the pivotal elections that will take place in April.
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(21 March, 2010 – Geneva) Today, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), in an intervention before the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), expressed its deep concern over the grave human rights situation in Yemen, and the failure of the HRC to deal with this situation.
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Forty seven international, regional and national civil society organisations – including ARTICLE 19, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights – have written to Member States of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) expressing their opposition to draft resolutions on “combating defamation of religions” and on complementary standards to the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).
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It is with great sadness that CIHRS mourns the murder of noted human rights lawyer, intellectual, and friend Abdelsalam Hassan Abdelsalam in London on 13 March 2010.
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(12 March, 2010 – Geneva) Today, Iyas Maleh, son of the prominent Syrian human rights defender Haitham Maleh, addressed the Human Rights Council. In a joint statement by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and 4 other Arab rights organizations, Mr. Iyas Maleh urged all United Nations human rights experts and member states of the Council to take stronger action to address the increasing attacks on human rights defenders throughout the Arab region.
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On 9/3/2010 as a side event to the thirteenth meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council, CIHRS, jointly with others, held an event titled "human right in Egypt- counter terrorism law and the price of stability".
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(8 March, 2010 – Geneva) Egypt’s use of the Emergency Law to justify arbitrary detention and the use of exceptional courts was examined before the UN Human Rights Council today in a ground-breaking report presented by Martin Scheinin, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism. The report is the first issued by the main human rights body of the United Nations that deals exclusively with the human rights situation in Egypt. Representatives from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies attended the session in Geneva as observers and delivered oral interventions in which they supported the report’s recommendations and urged the government to implement them immediately.
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Fourteen Egyptian human rights groups today expressed their full support of the statement issued by the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights which condemned the Egyptian security forces for killing up to 60 migrants on the Egyptian side of the borders with Israeli since mid 2007
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The undersigned organizations strongly condemn Israeli measures and practices promoting Judaism while destroying the Arab and Islamic characteristics of Jerusalem and al Khalil. By incorporating the Ibrahimi Sanctuary and Bilal Mosque into its list of Jewish heritage sites, Israel ignores the norms and provisions of international humanitarian law that prohibit occupation forces from introducing changes to the cultural and religious heritage of the occupied territory.
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conference entitled "Human rights and their impact on poverty, violence and conflict in the Arab world" on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 7:15 Pm to 9:15 Pm .
location: Institute of Political Sciences in Paris (27 rue Saint-Guillaume Paris -75,007) Jack Hall Hapsahl .
Collaboration with the association sciences the Arab world
Cairo institute for Human Rights Studies
French League for Human Rights.
International Federation for Human Rights
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights
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