Date of source: Thursday, August 29, 2019
Jīhān al-Sādāt, wife of the late President Muḥammad Anwār al-Sādāt, is considered one of the most important advocates for Egyptian women’s rights in history. She was a lecturer at Cairo University, was a visiting professor at the American University in Cairo, and a lecturer at South Carolina State...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Ayman Naṣrī, head of the Arab- European Forum for Dialogue and Human Rights in Geneva, has given his sincere condolences to families of the victims of the terrorist attack that took place in front of the National Cancer Institute. He expressed his condemnation of the attack, which resulted in the...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2019
The President of the National Council for Women (NCW) Maya Mursi met with the Executive Director of Gambia’s African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, Morocco’s National Human Rights Council member Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾand the Coordinator of Morocco’s North African NGOS Coalition Naji...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) expressed deep sorrow over the fire that erupted in Notre Dame Cathedral yesterday.
Date of source: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
The UAE’s Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation Nassir bin Thani Al Hamli and Egypt’s Minister of Manpower Muḥammad Saʿafan held a bilateral meeting to discuss the conditions of Egyptian workers in the UAE
Date of source: Thursday, July 4, 2019
Nine Egyptian human rights organizations including Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), al-Nadīm Center, Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR), Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), and the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) have condemned coercive...
Date of source: Saturday, July 27, 2019
After several recent reforms, Saudi Arabia has embarked on the path of liberating the Saudi society according to its ‘Saudi Vision 2030’. It seems as if there is a revolution on the skyline with regards to Saudi women’s exposure to the wider world, and the eradication of their so-called ‘societal...
Date of source: Friday, July 26, 2019
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights, an Egyptian civil society organisation, has condemned an increase in deaths resulting from deliberate medical negligence and degrading conditions in places of custody, which have recently led to the death of the defedant ʿUmar ʿĀdil aged 29 years old. According...
Date of source: Thursday, August 15, 2019
Two interns visited the families of Eritrean students who will start their education at the CAWU-Learning Center on August 26, 2019. The families told them about the hardships in Eritrea and how they were able to travel overland to Egypt. All these families have UNHCR cards and are thus legally in...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
ʿAlāʾ al-Aswānī grew up in a family with a history of national struggle and a good education that made him a skilled computer programmer. Like millions of young people in Egypt, he dreamed of democratic change. In 2005 he created a blog in his name and his wife Manal which called for an end to...