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Editor’s Note: Coptic Solidarity and the CIHRS worked jointly on this advocacy letter with international parliamentarians. Ramy has now been in solitary confinement for nearly 16 months and [...]

On March 5, 2021, Coptic Solidarity Executive Committee Member, Mrs. Ghada Melek, participated in a virtual parallel event to the United Nations Human Rights Council 46th Session. This important [...]

Keynote Statement by Ms. Mama Fatima SINGHATEH   – 5 March 2021 Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children, Including Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and other [...]

By OHCR- Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights updated the 46th session of the Human Rights Council on  human rights issues in 50 countries . Egypt: I remain [...]

By Kathleen N. Hattrup – Aleteia – Authentic religious teaching is incompatible with war, hate, violence, bloodshed, says pope in first addresses in Iraq. Speaking from the [...]

by CIHRS – The undersigned human rights organizations reject the government’s draft of the Personal Status Law, published on February 23rd and presented before Egypt’s House of [...]

By Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) – The year 2020 witnessed the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, which spread in almost all countries of the world. The pandemic [...]

By Ishak Ibrahim – TIMEP – Since 2011, many countries in North Africa have witnessed major political changes following widespread protests and revolutions. As a result, new [...]

By Declan Walsh – The New York Times – Axum, a city of ancient ruins and churches, holds great significance to followers of the Ethiopian Orthodox faith. An internal U.S. government report [...]

By CIHRS – 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 [...]