Bahey eldin Hassan is the Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), an independent regional non-governmental organization founded in 1993 to promote respect for the principles of human rights and democracy in the Arab region. CIHRS produces analysis on the difficulties of applying international human rights law and disseminating human rights culture in the Arab region and conducts advocacy in national, regional and international human rights mechanisms and contribute to the capacity building of Arab Human rights NGO’s.
Mr. Hassan is also a member of the Board of the EuroMed Human Rights Foundation, member of the Advisory Bord of Middle East Watch and is a lecturer on human rights and democracy in the Arab region. He is the editor in chief of several books, including the CIHRS Annual Reports on the Human Rights in the Arab Region and contributed to several books that were published in Europe and US.