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Arabic Network for Human Rights Information opens first human rights library open to the public today
Cairo, 13 November, 2008
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information is proud to announce today the opening to the public of its library which excels in its collection of reference books about human rights. It is open to interested scholars, journalists, lawyers, students and anyone who wishes to read and research the area of human rights. Readers and scholars are welcome at the Arabic Network headquarters starting today.
The opening of the library is part of the constant endeavor of ANHRI to meet the urgent needs of scholars and interested people for a specialist library, which makes available reference books about human rights and the law, reports which have been published and issued by human rights institutions and other publications related mainly to the human rights movement, and in particular to freedom of expression and conscience.
The Arabic Network is trying to turn this library into a memorial for the human rights movement in the region, and a basic source for researchers and concerned bodies within Egypt, the Arab region and internationally, and to be one of the pillars of the community disseminating the culture of human rights.
ANHRI opens the library with a collection of approximately 900 books a number which is growing almost on a daily basis. The collection contains some very important books and legal folders, indexed human rights books and publications, and is sorted into twenty two sections, with a special section for publications in English language, and a reading hall.
The library includes a database for the books and publications which are accessible online on the library webpage: http://www.qadaya.net, where new books are sorted and published as they are added. Searching within the library is possible according to the sections (right, author, or publisher) pictures of the books’ covers are also posted, with a brief summary about its subject.
ANHRI hopes that the library will be helpful to scholars, journalists, lawyers and students in particular and more generally to all interested readers, as a place where they can find what they are looking for.
The library is located at number 19, 26 July St. in downtown Cairo, on the fourth floor, and is open for visitors on a daily basis from 9:00 am to 5:00pm, except Friday and Saturday.
For more information you may contact the library manager, Abdo Abdel Aziz
Tel: 27736177- Mobile: 018 750 3853
To visit the library and learn about list of available books so far: http://qadaya.net
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