Date of source: Monday, March 23, 2015
The Egyptian Union for Human Rights: The visit to Jerusalem was a mistake
The Egyptian Union for Human Rights is going to hold conference tomorrow discussing whether its visit to Jerusalem aimed at normalising relationships between Egypt and Israel or lending political support to the Palestinian...
Date of source: Sunday, April 5, 2015
The first group of international human rights trainers graduate in Aswan
An international human rights organization (T.O.T) in Aswan has graduated its first group of students. Participants in the program worked in workshops aimed at developing communication and presentation skills, as well as...
Date of source: Saturday, January 3, 2015
Where Are Human Rights?
Opinion: The concept of human rights has become ubiquitous throughout the world and the organizations and governmental bodies that proclaim to protect them, but is there really any such thing as human rights? If we look at the situation, we find that there is no equality in...
Date of source: Wednesday, August 6, 2014
After the Egyptian Constitution was accepted in a referendum in January 2014 Mona Zulficar, vice president of the Constituent Assembly that amended the 2012 Constitution, went to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to present the new Constitution. She prepared for this Council a...
Date of source: Tuesday, August 5, 2014
The interview conducted by Cornelis Hulsman and Diana Serodio on June 3, 2014, was part of a series of interviews for a report about the Egyptian Constitution of 2014. The transcript of the interview was made by Omar Ali.
Date of source: Saturday, October 13, 2012
Translation and comments: Cornelis Hulsman
The new Egyptian Constitution is not yet finished but Amr Darrag is now already proud. The Constitutional Assembly, which he chairs, presented this week the first version of the document about which the Egyptians, for the first time, have a say. “The...
Date of source: Friday, October 12, 2012
U.S. ambassador in Cairo Anne Patterson met on Wednesday (October 10) with Coptic activists who spoke to her about the status of religious minorities in Egypt under President Muhammad Mursī, a few days after her meeting with Egyptian Shiite leaders who told her they applied for the Dutch...
Date of source: Sunday, July 8, 2012
The salafī al-Nūr Party severely slammed Grand Shaykh of the Azhar Dr. Ahmad al-Tayīb for rejecting to provide explanations for the word “principles” in the constitution, urging him to issue a statement indicating why he insists on keeping Article II unchanged. [Hamdī Dabash, ‘Usāmah al-Mahdī,...
Date of source: Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Table of Contents
I. Introduction: Complications
II. Egyptian Media Reporting
III. Experiences of the Center for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU)
IV. NGO Registration: The U.S. Model
Date of source: Friday, November 25, 2011
A recent Constitutional declaration added new texts that cover the civility of the state and a democratic rule, in addition to giving the sovereignty of the state to the people regardless of their religion.
Some people believe that these texts will not be achieved because the same Constitutional...