Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2018
Within the context of its participation in the “Youth against Violence and Extremism” Program implemented in Romania during October, the youth mission of the Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights (MPDHR) made a presentation about the Egyptian culture and civilization, focusing on the major...
Date of source: Monday, November 10, 2014
Human rights activists requested that the Ministry of Social Solidarity extend the deadline for several human rights organizations to validate their status, as they believe that the expiry of the previous 45-day deadline was a violation of the right to assemble and organize as guaranteed by...
Date of source: Saturday, October 20, 2018
Ayman Aqil [Ayman ʿUqayl], President of MAAT for Peace, Development and Human Rights, said that the statement issued by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) denouncing the death sentences passed against some terrorists in Egypt is “politically-oriented”.
Date of source: Thursday, March 20, 2014
Pope Tawadros has accused human rights reports on Copts in Egypt of being “purposefully distorted misunderstandings” during one of his statements to a satellite channel [the article did not mention the channel].
Date of source: Wednesday, October 31, 2018
In his interview with Al-Bawāba News, the Head of the MENA Division in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Muḥammad al-Nisūr stressed that the Arab countries have the impression that the human rights are a Western concept, and that there are certain Western agendas...
Date of source: Saturday, October 6, 2018
ʿIṣṣām Shīḥa, Secretary General of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), attended the 39th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that took place in Geneva from 10th to 28th of September 2018.
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The Center for Arab-West Understanding had faced numerous obstacles from the moment the founders wanted to establish the organization in 2004, despite its lofty goal of facilitating understanding between communities in Egypt and the Arab World and the West, through producing material for Arab-Wes
Date of source: Saturday, June 8, 2013
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) demanded that the French government not to deport an Egyptian Christian because he fled to France to escape alleged repression. European judges in Strasbourg on Thursday (June 6) considered that his expulsion is a violation of Article III of the European...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 to Saturday, March 3, 2018
Tension built up between Cairo and Washington after some U.S. activists and officials in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were referred to trial in Egypt as the Egyptian military delegation abruptly ended a visit to the U.S. is scheduled to return to Cairo today (Feb. 8).
Date of source: Tuesday, October 3, 2017
During the opening of the annual forum of NGOs organized by the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) on Tuesday, the NCHR’s President Muḥammad Fāʾiq said that there can be no democracy without an active civil society to put the constitution into effect, adding that the NCHR is focusing...