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Egypt Latest News

Egypt withdraws from UN grain treaty prompting concern

March 10, 2023 MEO Staff

Egypt has given notice it will withdraw at the end of June from a decades-old U.N. grains treaty, reported Reuters. The decision has caused consternation among other signatories to the convention. It follows a period [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt’s human rights record scrutinized by UN Human Rights Committee

February 28, 2023 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Reactions continued to the leaked message from Badr-3 prison

February 27, 2023 MEO Staff

Human rights organizations say the United Nations must adopt a resolution on the dire human rights situation in Egypt. Reactions have continued to the leaked message from prisoners at Badr-3 Prison, which highlighted the violations [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: A joint letter by NGOs warns of the intensifying ‘brutal crackdown on civil society’

February 25, 2023 MEO Staff

Egypt is experiencing a worsening human rights crisis, prompting NGOs to call on the UN to take urgent procedures to address the crisis. The UN HRC must adopt a resolution on the human rights crisis [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Independent organizations submit a new human rights report to the UN

January 27, 2023 MEO Staff

Egypt’s human rights crisis has persisted and even worsened over the last three years, according to a recent human rights report submitted to the United Nations The human rights crisis in Egypt has persisted and [ More … ]

Iran Latest News

Iran Removed From UN Commission On Women

December 15, 2022 MEO Staff

Twenty-nine out of 54 members voted to expel Iran from the UN commission on women over regime’s crackdown on protests sparked by the death of a young woman in the custody. Eight member states voted [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Police officers accused of snooping on COP27 activists

November 14, 2022 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: Burst sewage pipe adds to infrastructure woes at COP27

November 10, 2022 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

As Egypt prepares to host COP27, summit Is heading for a geopolitical hurricane, says Bloomberg

October 23, 2022 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt: UN rights experts warn that Gov. intimidates NGOs ahead of COP27

October 8, 2022 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Egypt Latest News

European MPs raise concerns to their governments about Human rights in Egypt!

February 3, 2022 MEO Staff

A joint letter by European MPs urges establishment of a UN rights monitoring mechanism on Egypt A joint letter by various European members of parliaments have urged foreign ministers, and ambassadors to the UN Human [ More … ]

Saudi Arabia News

Talks between UN and Saudi Arabia to end war in Yemen

January 21, 2022 MEO Staff

The United Nations Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, on Thursday met with the Saudi Deputy Defense Minister, Khalid Bin Salman Al-Saud, in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh, where they discussed ways to end the [ More … ]

Yemen Latest News

Yemen: UN envoy says the country stuck in ‘indefinite state of war’

September 12, 2021 MEO Staff

Special Envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg assumes his duties amid a stalled peace process and intense fighting around the city of Marib The new UN special envoy for Yemen said on Friday the country was [ More … ]

Saudi Arabia News

Top Saudi official made death threats to UN investigator Callamard on Khashoggi murder

March 24, 2021 MEO Staff

United Nations officials twice said Riyadh would have Agnes Callamard ‘taken care of’ following probe into journalist’s assassination, a Middle East Monitor report says A senior Saudi official allegedly issued death threats against outgoing United Nations [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egypt mobilizes institutions to damn UN report on its rights record

March 16, 2021 MEO Staff

Well-informed Egyptian sources have revealed that unified directives have been circulated by the authorities in Cairo to institutions, councils and professional unions in order to respond to a statement issued by the United Nations, criticising [ More … ]

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