Human Rights

An international report focusing on the plight of pro-democracy and human rights activists and associations that are working under tough…

US-based human rights watchdog Freedom House has accused Egypt of misusing its voting rights in the United Nations Human Rights…

The Cairo-based Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) on Thursday denounced the "deplorable treatment" of Darfurian refugees in Egypt at…

Saad Eddin Ibrahim, the Egyptian dissident and human rights activist who recently returned to Egypt from exile in the US,…

Family and Population Minister Moushira Khattab has submitted a formal request to the attorney-general for investigations into a case in…

Coptic Pope Shenouda III has issued a resolution prohibiting conferences of a non-religious nature inside churches and auxiliary buildings, except…

Sociology professor and political activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim is scheduled to arrive in Cairo on Wednesday after spending three years…

International human rights watchdog Amnesty International has called for the Egyptian authorities to drop all charges against two leading human…

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is preparing to disburse new grants and aid package to Egyptian civil…

At a two-day conference held this week in Cairo entitled "Prospects for Political Reform in the Arab World," organized by…