The COP27 may have ended, but many of the Egyptians preemptively detained in connection with calls for protests during the conference remain behind bars. Egyptian authorities arrested hundreds of people around the country leading up [ More … ]
As COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh comes to an end, 4 UN rapporteurs have condemned authorities’ “intimidation, harassment, and surveillance of climate activists and civil society.” At the time when the UN climate conference, COP27, held [ More … ]
US President Joe Biden and other U.S. officials cozied up to Egypt’s Sisi at COP27 while occasionally “raising” the issue of human rights. Away from COP27, Alaa Abdel Fattah sent his family a letter, the [ More … ]
The United Nations says it is investigating reportedly misconduct by Egyptian police officers providing security at this year’s international climate talks. This follows accusations that attendees of events at the German pavilion for the COP27 [ More … ]
The plight of Egypt’s political prisoners sparks a global human rights campaign with #FreeThemAll hashtag circulating widely online, as human rights turns into a key issue at UN climate change conference in Sharm El Sheikh [ More … ]
Sewage pipe in Egypt bursts after COP27 attendees complain about lack of basic necessities. First there was no water. Then there was too much of the wrong kind. Participants of this year’s U.N. climate conference [ More … ]
Not since the 2013 coup that brought its current leader to power has Egypt been this much in the global spotlight, says Ishaan Tharoor, a prominent WP columnist, in a recent piece “Egyptian authorities are [ More … ]
Several Nobel laureates for Literature have urged world leaders to raise human rights issues and call for release of the political prisoners in Egypt, as they visit Egypt for the COP27 climate change conference to [ More … ]
Visitors to Sharm el-Sheikh also face extensive searches and video surveillance in taxis. The visitors to Sharm el-Sheikh face extensive searches, an intrusive attendee application, and taxi video surveillance monitored by a “security observatory”, reported [ More … ]
Criticism of the Greenpeace group, as greenwashing Egypt’s image ahead of Cop27, comes as advocates warn environmentalists should not downplay concerns about Egypt’s human rights record. Greenpeace, a global conservation group, has been accused by [ More … ]
The White House has announced that U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Egypt on 11 November to attend Cop27 in Sharm El Sheikh, the same day Egyptian authorities are aggressively trying to prevent a [ More … ]
The Egypt Economic Conference, a three-day, government-organized forum about the future of Egypt’s economy, kicked off in Cairo Sunday with self-congratulatory speeches from Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and other state leaders. After decades of poor economic [ More … ]
This move by the Egyptian government to shut down pavilion spaces at the beginning of COP27 epitomizes what rights groups have been warning about: you cannot secure climate justice without civil society involvement. In fact, [ More … ]
As Egypt prepares to stage COP27, the geopolitical context that shapes all international diplomacy has gone from tense to precarious, said Bloomberg in a recent report. Egypt, the summit host, is contending with inflation that [ More … ]
Stephan Roll, expert of SWP Berlin, wonders in an insightful and concise piece why Egypt’s General Intelligence Service (GIS) benefits from the World Climate Conference, COP27. Stephan Roll, head of the Africa and Middle East [ More … ]
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