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The Organizations signing this statement are disillusioned by the Supreme Council of the Armed forces decision to ban international monitoring of the elections, this decision comes at a time when Egypt is preparing to move forward with peaceful transition to democracy that the Supreme Council vowed to facilitate.
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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) welcomes the decision by Judge Mohammed al-Gharyani, the president of the Supreme Judicial Council, to appoint a committee to discuss a new law to ensure
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Today, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) issues its third annual report on the state of human rights in the Arab world in 2010, with a special focus on 12 countries: Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Iraq, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Yemen.
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CIHRS News
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Your Excellency,
As civil society organizations from throughout the African and Arab regions and around the world, we are writing to you to express our strong support and solidarity for the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression
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After some media outlets reported yesterday evening that Bahey eldin Hassan, the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights, had been nominated for the post of Deputy Interior Minister for Human Rights
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The activities of the18th Human Rights Summer course for Egyptian university students start today under the heading of "Egypt the Revolution... Our Rights Now." The course is organized every year
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In a letter sent to the Minister of Information this morning, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) stressed the need to deal with the ministry as a temporary ministry, as the media should not be considered
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Yesterday, the first training workshop of the Dr.Mohammed Sayed Said Program For Citizenship and Democracy" was concluded at Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. This workshop comes as one of the activities of the Education Program in CIHRS
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In light of the ongoing debate on the “January 25th” Constitutional process and its core provisions, the Cairo Institute for Human Right Studies (CIHRS) and several Egyptian human rights organizations have submitted a set of basic principles which they believe will guarantee an Egyptian constitution based on the values of the January 25th Revolution and its most prominent slogan, “Freedom, dignity, social justice” These principles, formulated in six detailed articles and signed by more than 25 Egyptian rights organizations, are based on the sovereignty of the people as the source of all governmental authority.
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In view of the official visit that you will pay to the Kingdom of Bahrain on July 4, 2011, the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), together with its member organizations in Egypt, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) would like to bring to your attention their great concern about the current critical situation of human rights defenders and political opponents in Bahrain
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Training workshop has launched today under the title "Democracy and elections in Egypt." This workshop is considered to be the first of a series of workshops bringing together activists and journalists from all over Egypt,
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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) expresses its deep concern and total condemnation of the severe penalties targeting prominent political and advocacy figures in Bahrain whose only crime has been to aspire to genuine reforms to construct a democratic system that respects human rights, guarantees equality, and ends systematic discrimination against the Shiite community.
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The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) is extremely concerned about judicial independence in Egypt during the transitional phase. Although it was assumed that the success of the January 25 revolution was expected to give a large boost to judicial autonomy and norms of justice, CIHRS has noticed that judges have come under increasing pressure in the past few months.
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