Date of source: Friday, January 8, 2021
Amidst the Arab world’s intense media coverage of the storming of the US Capitol Building, some are seeing a campaign in celebration of the United States’ pain and misfortune, trying to prove something. What’s the goal behind this?
Date of source: Thursday, January 7, 2021
Commenting on the storming of the US Capitol Building, several human rights activists stressed that the recent American presidential elections have once again exposed the shortcomings inside the United States’ democratic system and its usage of human rights domestically and internationally for...
Date of source: Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Ambassador ʿAlāʾ Yūsuf, Egypt's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, responded Wednesday to the allegations made by the Ministers of foreign Affairs of Iceland and Canada in their statements during the 37th high-level session of the Human Rights Council.
Date of source: Thursday, July 20, 2017
Cairo expressed dismay at the travel warning issued by the US State Department on travel to Egypt because of threats from terrorist and violent political opposition groups.
Date of source: Thursday, January 5, 2017
President of the National Council for Human Rights Muḥammad Fā’iq said that there is wide interest in human rights, whether internally or externally. This includes people’s economic and social rights, as well as their freedoms. He stated that democracy is similar to happiness: we feel it, but...
Date of source: Thursday, June 15, 2017
Dr. Ahmad al-Tayyib, Grand Imam of al-Azhar, said that human rights in the western world are not concerned with the directives of religion, of ḥalāl and ḥarām, but rather, to completely remove religion from any area of life. Among these rights is homosexuality, for which the Grand Imam emphasizes...
Date of source: Thursday, October 13, 2016
Last April, during President `Abd al-Fattāh al-Sisi’s meeting with the French President François Hollande, al-Sisi said: ‘The region we live in is very turbulent, and European standards don’t work considering the current circumstances that the region is exposed to.’
Al-Sisi added, ‘I say this to...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 15, 2006
The author draws a picture
about the development of the concept of citizenship since it
originated until its present state, asserting
that it has consistently been changing depending on historical, political and
economical needs.
Date of source: Sunday, June 18, 2006
The recent suicides of
three inmates at the U.S. base
in Guantanamo, Cuba, are regarded by many as a stain on the human rights
record of the United
States.
Date of source: Monday, April 3, 2000
A lot of irregularities are have been taking place in the Egyptian Organization of Human Rights [EOHR] after the election of Hafez Abu-Saeda, who assumed responsibility (for leading the organization) after the fourth General Assembly of the organization in 1998...