Egypt: Human Rights, Seven Years After the Revolution

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michele Dunne Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/12/06/egypt-human-rights-seven-years-after-revolution-pub-74923 Co-chairmen and members of the Commission, thank you for inviting me to testify. You have heard from the other witnesses about the shocking and unprecedented human rights abuses in Egypt since the 2013 military coup. I will offer...

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Refugees in Egypt: Violations and Challenges

Source: Egyptian Institute for Studies Author(s): Mostafa Gawish Original Link: http://en.eipss-eg.org/refugees-egypt-violations-challenges/ Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health has released a memo to the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, to alert Nigerians on the high rate of kidney trafficking in Egypt, according to Daily Post, a Nigerian newspaper, on October 17th.  2017. The memo was...

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Egypt | A year after the law’s approval by the Egyptian Parliament Rights groups: No alternative but to repeal new association law, revision pointless

Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=20505&lang=en Marking one year since the Egyptian Parliament’s November 2016 approval of Law 70/2017 regulating civic associations, issued by President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi in May, the undersigned organizations reiterate their rejection of the law. For all practical purposes, the law...

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The Trap Punishing sexual difference in Egypt

Source: Egyptian Initiative For Personal Rights Author(s): Dalia Abdel Hamid, Ahmed Mahrous, Alaa Farouk, Adel Ramadan Original Link: https://eipr.org/sites/default/files/reports/pdf/the_trap-en.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In this report, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, documents a four-year period in which Egyptian police have escalated a targeted crackdown on people whose sexualities...

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The Right to Health in North Sinai: Challenges and Community Solutions

Source: Egyptian Initiative For Personal Rights Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://eipr.org/sites/default/files/reports/pdf/english_summary.pdf  As stated by the Egyptian Constitution, the Right to Health is a universal right for all citizens that should be realized without discrimination. Understanding the challenges facing the realizing of this right to the citizens of North Sinai and...

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Social Stigma Enables Egypt’s Attack on LGBT Community

Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Muhammed Fadel Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/social-stigma-enables-egypts-attack-on-lgbt-community/ The world has made major progress in LGBT rights in the last few years. Same-sex marriage is now allowed in several countries and the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed an independent expert on protection...

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Nubians, the Egyptian State, and the Right of Return

Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Mohamed El Dahshan Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/nubians-the-egyptian-state-and-the-right-of-return/ Smiling faces playing tambourines on the deck of a sailboat in the southern city of Aswan are a staple of Egyptian official tourism promotion videos. Aswanis, and Nubians in general, are renowned for kindness and...

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TIMEP Brief: Protest and Freedom of Assembly in Egypt

Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/timep-brief-protest-and-freedom-of-assembly-in-egypt/#authorbio Egypt’s Protest Law has been invoked against peaceful assemblies despite judicial and legislative attempts to liberalize its Article 10, which delineates the government’s power to prevent protests. Arrests under the...

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The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights’ Position on the Death Penalty

Source: Egyptian Initiative For Personal Rights Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://eipr.org/en/publications/egyptian-initiative-personal-rights%E2%80%99-position-death-penalty Introduction The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) opposes the death penalty in principle and in all cases without exception, because it constitutes a grave violation of human rights, does not achieve...

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Egypt | Human rights & freedom of expression in Egypt – trapped between security services and the media

Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=20296&lang=en Following the escalating violent attempts to suppress and divide civil society organizations, restrict their resources, and increase security measures to silence advocates for human rights and freedom of speech and expression in Egypt, the Egyptian state and media have...

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The Right to Citizenship in Egypt’s Age of Terror

Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): May El-Sadany Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/the-right-to-citizenship-in-egypts-age-of-terror/ Shortly after President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi suggested at a side meeting of the United Nations General Assembly that the state of human rights in Egypt should not be judged from a Western perspective, Egypt’s cabinet gathered...

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Why Egypt Must Work Toward Abolishing the Death Penalty

Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Sherif Azer Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/why-egypt-must-work-toward-abolishing-the-death-penalty/ International rights groups this summer criticized death sentences issued by the Egyptian judiciary following what they called unfair trials, with convictions based on confessions obtained through torture. Since 2013...

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