Human Rights
Human Rights online
Egypt
December 26, 2009
Human Rights online
An average 12,000 visitors per day makes the Cairo-based Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) the leading human rights…
E-expression and its malcontents
Egypt
December 26, 2009
E-expression and its malcontents
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information released on Wendnesday a report on internet use in the Arab world that…
Boutros-Ghali calls for end to emergency law
Egypt
December 15, 2009
Boutros-Ghali calls for end to emergency law
Head of the National Human Rights Council and former United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali renewed calls on Sunday for…
Thinking human rights in Egypt
Egypt
December 13, 2009
Thinking human rights in Egypt
Representatives from international bodies, local organizations, and the Egyptian government gathered Thursday to commemorate Human Rights Day at an event…
Expatriate Copts accuse Muslim scholar of blasphemy
Egypt
December 13, 2009
Expatriate Copts accuse Muslim scholar of blasphemy
Officials submitted a report from the Egyptian Union of Human Rights to state security and called for an investigation into…
NCHR calls for abolition of death penalty
Egypt
December 10, 2009
NCHR calls for abolition of death penalty
National Human Rights Council (NHRC) Undersecretary Mona Zulfiqar has called for abolishing the use of capital punishment in Egypt. "Prisons…
Report blames police states, Obama, Salafism for region’s rights woes
Egypt
December 9, 2009
Report blames police states, Obama, Salafism for region’s rights woes
US-allied Arab regimes remain wedded to a broad array of repressive laws that serve to undermine basic liberties, a leading…
Draft law on terror contradicts Constitution
Egypt
December 9, 2009
Draft law on terror contradicts Constitution
Mostafa el-Fiqqi, head of the People's Assembly Foreign Relations Committee, revealed that there is disagreement among members of the committee,…