Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 3, 1999 to الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 9, 1999
In the early hours of last Thursday, following a day-long debate, the People’s Assembly approved, by a hefty majority, a new bill designed to regulate the activities of some 15,000 registered non-governmental organizations (NGOs). However, the bill did not go down well with 11 opposition deputies...
Date of source: الخميس, حزيران (يونيو) 3, 1999 to الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 9, 1999
The People’s Assembly’s Culture Committee was the scene of stormy debates this week over the Culture Ministry’s plans to organize a celebration marking the advent of the next millennium. Among other questions that the Culture Minister Farouk Hosni was asked, was this one: "The celebration will be...
Date of source: الخميس, آيار (مايو) 27, 1999 to الأربعاء, حزيران (يونيو) 2, 1999
A bill that regulates NGO activities has been approved in principle by the People’s Assembly. The bill faced severe criticism, with independent and opposition deputies arguing that the bill was at the expense of civil rights and political freedoms because it obstructs the formation of certain NGOs...
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 30, 1998
The board of trustees of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) has reconsidered the issue of foreign finance and has returned the check presented by the British embassy.
Date of source: الاثنين, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 23, 1998
Dr. Ayman Nour of the Wafd Party invited Lord Alton to visit Egypt to see everything by himself, but he refused. However, he agreed on holding a debate with Dr. Nour in London and it will televised through one of the television channels.
Date of source: الخميس, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 19, 1998
This article discusses the several faxes Lord David Alton of Liverpool wrote to Sohag’s governor Ahmad Abd Al-Aziz Bakr concerning the issue of al-Koshh.
Date of source: الثلاثاء, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 17, 1998
Egyptian human rights organizations are used to being attacked by government and its allied journalists once a year at one particular time. That is when the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council holds its meeting to discuss reports prepared by their branches all...
Date of source: الأحد, تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 15, 1998
’The World Today’ program broadcast from London Radio last week hosted leading Copts and Muslims. This article gives a summary of that discussion which focused on al-Koshh.
Date of source: الأحد, حزيران (يونيو) 7, 1998
The Azhar schools sector has begun to take actual steps towards the execution of the decree reducing the school years in the secondary level to three.