http://www.cihrs.org/English/NewsSystem/Articles/548
The first Annual Report on human rights and the Arab region by the Cairo
Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), entitled From Exporting Terrorism
to Exporting Repression, was released on the 5th of December, 2008, in
anticipation of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
In this report the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) finds that
the status of human rights in the Arab region in 2008 has increasingly
worsened. Attacks on the limited public and political liberties that exist
have escalated in most countries in the region.
CIHRS notes that, while Islamists are less frequently targeted, there is an
increase in repression of reformists, human rights defenders and activists, the
independent press and electronic media, leaders of protest movements, and of
other forms of political action in Arab countries. This has been accompanied by
earnest attempts to export increasing domestic repression outside the Arab
region through the international mechanisms of the UN and the
Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Initiative. Arab governments have made large
individual and concerted efforts to silence independent Non-Governmental
Organizations or erase them from public visibility completely, while
simultaneously undermining International Human Rights Mechanisms (IHRM) of
their ability to promote human rights and provide protection for victims of
rights violations. Furthermore, these states have promoted and created
resolutions and policies at IHRMs that are designed to undermine
the very rights and freedoms these mechanisms are designed to promote.
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