Date of source: Saturday, May 17, 2008
Disagreements occur over female circumcision at a meeting held by the National Conference for Childhood and Motherhood.
Date of source: Monday, May 12, 2008
Sakīnah Fū’ād writes about the incident of beating Ahmad Mahīr, the Facebook activist.
Date of source: Friday, April 25, 2008
The article presents speeches of a number of Azhar scholars that have been delivered in a symposium on human rights in Islam.
Date of source: Friday, April 25, 2008
The author comments on a recent speech of Pope Benedict XVI that he gave at the UN General Assembly on human rights and the role that the international community should play to protect them.
Date of source: Thursday, April 24, 2008
The NCHR has called for the removal of the religion section in official papers in order to comply with the constitutional principle of citizenship.
Date of source: Sunday, April 27, 2008
Turkish forces continue to clash with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s guerrillas [PKK] in south-eastern areas near its border with Iraq.
Date of source: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
In the article, Hibah al-Sharqāwī reviews a number of laws which she believes are meant to silence the opposition against the political regime.
Date of source: Sunday, April 6, 2008
Zaynab Radwan, the deputy speaker of the parliament and a professor of Sharī‘ah recentlysubmitted a number of proposals to Parliament. Amongst other things, the proposals called for Bahā’īs’ rights to obtain formal documents and stated that Christian wives of Muslim men should be able to have a...
Date of source: Friday, July 18, 2008
Member of the National Council for Human Rights and of the fact-finding committee delegated by the council to prepare a report on the issue of Abū Fānā, Munīr Fakhrī ‘Abd al-Nūr comments on the report of the council and stresses seriousness of the issue.
Date of source: Sunday, April 13, 2008
The Egyptians Against Religious Discrimination [EARD] group held its first national conference last weekend. The conference was supposed to be held at the Journalists Syndicate but after journalists stopped participants from entering the premises it was moved to the headquarters of the Tajammu...