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human rights • 1 min read

Video | Rizk

Mostafa Abdel Raouf | Mohamed Rizk was infected with poliovirus as a child, losing his ability to walk at an early age.

18 September 2019

Aida Seif al-Dawla • 6 min read

Human rights community in Egypt calls on UN to ‘explicitly cancel’ anti-torture conference after to decision to postpone

Mostafa Mohie | The joint statement said the conference in Cairo should be canceled outright, rather than postponed.

21 August 2019

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi • 11 min read

Amending the NGO law: Why did Sisi choose to revise it now and will the changes be meaningful?

Rana Mamdouh | President Sisi orders amendments to be made to a contested NGO law that has already been passed

5 December 2018

Opinion

Nader Andrawos

Speaking of Evil: Are human rights a new religion?

The history of human rights is a strange, confusing collage of many events from across the world.

12 November 2019

Hassan Elmasry

Why is Egypt attacking human rights groups?

Egypt’s human rights movement has a long and patriotic history

24 July 2019

Ivan Surkoš

Upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: More important than ever

Marking the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

10 December 2018

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Egypt-EU relations • 4 min read

European Parliament adopts resolution condemning government crackdown in Egypt, calls for serious revision of EU aid

25 October 2019

Duweiqa • 5 min read

UN rights envoys condemn Egypt after ‘pattern of reprisals’

5 December 2018

NGO law • 4 min read

10 US senators urge Trump to pressure Sisi to annul Egypt’s new NGO law

20 June 2017

NGO foreign funding case • 3 min read

Rights activist Abdel Hafiz Tayel released on LE20K bail after questioning in ongoing NGO case

20 June 2017