As China attempts to assert its geopolitical clout with Riyadh, US senators push for addressing human rights concerns in Saudi Arabia A bipartisan pair of US senators introduced a resolution yesterday (Wednesday, 15 March) that [ More … ]
A special Egyptian court on Sunday gave 30 members of the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) sentences ranging from five-year to life imprisonment, according to Islam Salama, a lawyer from the Egyptian Initiative [ More … ]
The United Nations Human Rights Committee will hold a two-day session (today and tomorrow) to examine the Egyptian government’s implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which Egypt ratified in 1982 [ More … ]
The United States will continue to encourage Egypt to take steps on human rights, including freeing more political prisoners and guaranteeing freedom of expression, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a visit to [ More … ]
The American FY 2023 appropriations bill has been released, with more conditions placed on the military aid for Egypt, as the Congress has again strengthened the aid conditions. The U. S. Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations [ More … ]
The resolution adopted by the European Parliament’s plenary vote highlights the lack of improvement in Egypt’s dire human rights situation and calls for strong measures to address human rights crisis in Egypt. The European Parliament [ More … ]
U.S. President Joe Biden raised the issue of human rights in a meeting on Friday with Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during the COP27 climate summit, the White House said. According to a White House readout [ 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 … ]
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 … ]
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 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 … ]
Amid Egyptian government’s tight restrictions on assembly and free speech, UN annual conference on climate change is set to be hosted in Sharm El Sheikh next month Well-known Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg has joined [ More … ]
Egypt has missed out on an additional $75 million in American military aid after a senior Democratic U.S. senator blocked the funding over concerns about Cairo’s human rights record including holding political prisoners, reported Reuters. [ More … ]
Five UN human rights experts have warned that Egypt is creating a climate of fear for Egyptian civil society organizations ahead of COP27 Five United Nations human rights experts yesterday warned that the Egyptian government [ More … ]
How can COP27 take place in a country where independent civic activism, peaceful protests, free speech are all effectively banned?, wondered Amy W. Hawthorne, human rights expert and research director at the Project on Middle [ More … ]
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