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Egypt's president pardoned two prominent rights activists Wednesday, including one with ties to Italy who was sentenced this week, the country’s state-run news agency reported. Among an ...
When the COP27 climate summit begins in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh on Nov. 7, one of the most important players will be Wael Aboulmagd, special representative of the summit ...
Egypt will not participate in the displacement of Palestinians, an "act of injustice" that would threaten Egyptian security, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said on Wednesday in his first public ...
Human rights in Egypt are guaranteed by the Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt under the various articles of Chapter 3. The country is also a party to numerous international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
News Center: Aman, Egypt: No abortion in new child law. A draft law legalizing abortion for raped women sparks religious and social controversy in Egypt. Dialogue Net International: Egypt: Fatwa prohibits abortion even if the fetus is deformed. Controversy in Egypt over a bill that would allow abortion and sterilization due to poverty.
Egypt is a country for cannabis, heroin and opium destined for Europe, Israel, and North Africa. [9] According to a 2003 research undertaken by the Egyptian government, the narcotics problem costs the Egyptian economy roughly $800 million per year, including amounts spent on illegal drugs and government expenditures to tackle the problem.
On 24 September 2020, ECFR was awarded the Rafto Prize by the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights for "their persistence in bravely resisting Egypt's state of fear". [31] In the same month, ECFR was nominated by the Government of the Netherlands for the Dutch Human Rights Tulip 2020. ECRF was nominated together with 12 human rights organisations ...
Egyptian Streets is an English language independent news website and organization founded in July 2012 by Egyptian journalist Mohamed Khairat as a blog, but later developed into a media company in March 2014. It claims to be the number one English media outlet in Egypt by reach. In February 2015, more than 800,000 visited the website.