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Date of source: Sunday, August 12, 2018
Professor Hoda Awad joined the group for a presentation about the Egyptian constitution. She started by discussing the basics of democracy and constitutions. She explained to us that democracies had six elements or conditions. Firstly, there is the presence of democratic institutions and...
Date of source: Tuesday, November 26, 2019
On Monday an Egyptian court ruled in favour of Hudā Naṣr Allāh, a lawyer who had demanded to inherit the same share as her brothers. This historic ruling was praised by many human rights defenders, Copts and women.
The human rights lawyer Hudā Naṣr Allāh wrote on her Facebook page, “Finally a...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2019
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemned the involvement of security forces in closing the church of St. Karas the Tourist [al-Anbā Kārās al-Sāʾiḥ] in the village of Najaʿa al-Ghafīr in the Sūhāj governorate in southern Egypt, calling for the reopening of all the closed churches...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Māyā Mursī, President of National Council for Women, delivered a speech on the sidelines of the 64th Session of the African Commission on Human Rights in Sharm al-Shaykh, stressing the remarkable progress achieved in the field of woman empowerment and gender equality, and defining this year as a...
Date of source: Sunday, April 14, 2019
On Thursday, April 11, the heads of the Orthodox, Catholic, Evangelical, and Episcopal Churches held a meeting at the papal headquarters at St. Mark Cathedral in ʿAbāssiyya in the hopes of ending the harmful personal status crisis. The meeting was presided over by Pope Tawāḍrūs II, Patriarch ...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Recently released political activist, ʿAlāʾ ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ, announced on Wednesday that he had gone to the National Council for Human Rights to complain about the inflexibility of carrying out the punishment of police observation.
Date of source: Thursday, September 12, 2019
For many years expatriate churches in Cairo organize regular visits to foreign prisoners at Qanater prison. French-Moroccan intern Dina Bouchkouch visited foreign female prisoners, including two Moroccans, in Qanater prison on August 6. Dina visited the Moroccan Embassy in Cairo as she had promised...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) is condemning the Egyptian security services for closing the Coptic Church of St. Karas the Tourist [al-Anbā Kārās al-Sāʾiḥ] in the village of Najaʿa al-Ghafīr in the Sūhāj governorate after dozens of Muslim citizens surrounded it and chanted anti-...
Date of source: Saturday, July 6, 2019
The Ministry of Manpower and Immigration continued the “Egypt with you is beautiful” initiative in Alexandria in cooperation with the Fund of financing, training and rehabilitation. The initiative is resumed by holding its second training program for 6 days, to train 45 young men of both sexes with...
Date of source: Saturday, April 20, 2019
The first hours of voting in the referendum to amend the Egyptian constitution, Saturday, witnessed a weak turnout of voters in most governorates. Attempts to mobilize Copts and women in an effort to confront low voter turnout were evident with the start of Egyptians voting at home. Voting will...
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