21 Abd El-Megid El-Remaly St., 7th Floor, Flat no. 71, Bab El Louk
Cairo
Egypt
- Human rights
CIHRS aims at promoting respect for the principles of human rights and democracy, analyzing the difficulties facing the application of International Human Rights Law and disseminating Human Rights Culture in the Arab Region as well as engaging in dialogue between cultures in respect to the various International Human Rights treaties and Declarations. CIHRS seeks to attain this objective through the developing, proposing and promoting policies, legislations and constitutional amendments. CIHRS works on human rights advocacy in national, regional and international human rights mechanisms, for this aim we coordinate and mobilize key players and NGOs from the Arab world. In addition CIHRS implements a program in human rights education -both for youth and ongoing professional development for Human Rights Defenders. CIHRS is a major publisher of information, a magazine, an academic quarterly, and scores of books concerning human rights, which represent the fruit of the research that we carry out.
International Advocacy Program
Through our office in Geneva, in close cooperation with the headquarters in Cairo, we train and build capacity of regional NGOs so as to increase the engagement of the Arab NGOs in international human rights mechanisms.
Egypt Program
Our aim is to elaborate a holistic means of engagement on human rights issues in Egypt through a carefully designed process of information gathering, research analysis, advocacy, litigation, campaigning, networking and capacity building. Through these actions we hope to have a cohesive plan of action of engagement on the various civil and political rights as well as economical, social and culture rights that are decisive for Egypt’s hopeful transition towards democracy.
Education Program: We organize several training programs for different target groups on human rights, including training for prosecutors, human rights defenders and NGO workers. In addition CIHRS organizes a 3 week annual summer course for university student.