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Egypt: Arbitrary Travel Bans Throttle Civil Society

2022Democracy and PoliticsEgyptForeign RelationsHuman RightsHuman Rights WatchJudicial AffairsPaper
July 06, 2022 13:55 pm
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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Human Rights Watch Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/07/06/egypt-arbitrary-travel-bans-throttle-civil-society (Washington, DC) – Egypt is using arbitrary travel bans to target key members of civil society for their peaceful work, including rights lawyers, journalists, feminists, and researchers, FairSquare and Human Rights Watch said today. The...

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Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Exacerbates Hunger in Middle East, North Africa

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March 21, 2022 14:25 pm
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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Human Rights Watch Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/21/russias-invasion-ukraine-exacerbates-hunger-middle-east-north-africa (Beirut) – Governments should ensure that the conflict in Ukraine does not worsen the food crisis in the Middle East and North Africa and protect the right to affordable, adequate food for everyone, Human Rights Watch...

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WORLD REPORT 2022 – Egypt, Events of 2021

2022Civil SocietyDemocracy and PoliticsEconomyEgyptForeign RelationsHuman RightsHuman Rights WatchJudicial AffairsMediaMinoritiesPaperWomen Affairs
January 14, 2022 14:57 pm
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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Human Rights Watch Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2022/country-chapters/egypt In 2021, authorities escalated the use of the abusive Emergency State Security Courts to prosecute peaceful activists and critics who joined thousands of dissidents already in Egypt’s congested prisons. Courts issued death sentences in mass trials, adding to the...

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“Security Forces Dealt with Them”

2021Democracy and PoliticsEgyptHuman RightsHuman Rights WatchMilitary AffairsPaper
September 07, 2021 13:49 pm
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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Human Rights Watch Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/09/07/security-forces-dealt-them/suspicious-killings-and-extrajudicial-executions This report covers a pattern of suspicious killings and probable extrajudicial executions by Egyptian Interior Ministry forces of people who at the moment of their deaths apparently posed no life-threatening...

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Q&A: Legal Framework and Environment for Nongovernmental Groups (NGOs) in Egypt

2021Civil SocietyDemocracy and PoliticsEgyptHuman RightsHuman Rights WatchPaper
July 15, 2021 14:33 pm
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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Human Rights Watch Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/07/15/qa-legal-framework-and-environment-nongovernmental-groups-ngos-egypt The following questions and answers respond to the government’s misinformation and address the main freedom of association issues around the 2019 law and its consequences for independent groups in Egypt. Read more at...

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Corporal Punishment of Children – Egypt

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May 10, 2021 14:09 pm
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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Human Rights Watch Original Link: https://features.hrw.org/features/features/corporal-punishment-of-children/index.html These egregious cases reflect a widespread reality in the Middle East and North Africa. The region has some the world’s worst rates of violent punishment of children – in some countries, 90 percent of children or more were subject to...

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IMF: Scant Transparency for Covid-19 Emergency Loans

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March 30, 2021 14:08 pm
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Source: HRW Author(s): HRW Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/03/30/imf-scant-transparency-covid-19-emergency-loans (Washington, DC) –  The International Monetary Fund (IMF), despite overall progress in its anti-corruption efforts, has not ensured sufficient oversight of its Covid-19 emergency loans, Human Rights Watch and Transparency International said today. As a result, it is...

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Egypt: Massive Sinai Demolitions Likely War Crimes

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March 17, 2021 14:18 pm
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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Human Rights Watch Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/03/17/egypt-massive-sinai-demolitions-likely-war-crimes (Beirut) – The Egyptian military’s continuing home demolitions and forced evictions during the armed conflict in North Sinai governorate are violations of international humanitarian law, or the laws of war, and likely amount to war...

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World Report 2021 | Egypt

2021Civil SocietyCulture, Education and DevelopmentDemocracy and PoliticsEconomyEgyptForeign RelationsHealthHuman RightsHuman Rights WatchJudicial AffairsMediaMinoritiesPaperSecurity and Counter-Terrorism
January 12, 2021 15:13 pm
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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Human Rights Watch Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021/country-chapters/egypt Egyptians in 2020 continued to live under the harsh authoritarian grip of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government. Tens of thousands of government critics, including journalists and human rights defenders, remain imprisoned on politically motivated charges...

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Egypt: Spate of ‘Morality’ Prosecutions of Women

2020Democracy and PoliticsEgyptHuman RightsHuman Rights WatchPaperWomen Affairs
August 17, 2020 14:29 pm
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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): Human Rights Watch Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/08/17/egypt-spate-morality-prosecutions-women Egyptian authorities have since late April 2020 carried out an abusive campaign targeting female social media influencers on charges that violate their rights to privacy, freedom of expression, and nondiscrimination, Human Rights Watch said today...

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Egypt: Apparent Covid-19 Outbreaks in Prisons

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July 20, 2020 14:20 pm
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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s): N/A Original Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/07/20/egypt-apparent-covid-19-outbreaks-prisons Several Egyptian prisons and police stations have had suspected Covid-19 outbreaks in recent weeks amid a strict official information blackout, Human Rights Watch said today. Accounts by witnesses to Human Rights Watch, leaked letters from...

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“No One Cared He Was A Child”

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March 23, 2020 18:09 pm
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Source: Human Rights Watch Author(s):  Human Rights Watch & Belady: An Island for Humanity  Original Link:  https://www.hrw.org/report/2020/03/23/no-one-cared-he-was-child/egyptian-security-forces-abuse-children-detention Since the Egyptian army forcibly removed Egypt’s first elected president, Mohamed Morsy, in 2013, the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has greenlighted a...

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