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By World Watch Monitor –  Efforts by the Egyptian government to improve its record on human rights are aimed primarily at persuading the US government to reinstate its generous aid package, [...]

By POMED –  Vice President Mike Pence will reportedly travel to Egypt later this month to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and other officials. He will visit Cairo ahead of [...]

By Rania Rabeaa Elabd – Al-Monitor  –  CAIRO — In a move aimed at spreading the culture of human rights in Egypt, human rights departments are expected to be created and number 60 by [...]

By Colum Lynch – Foreign Policy Zeid Ra’ad Hussein worries the global retreat from human rights makes his job untenable. The United Nations’ top human rights advocate told his staff that he [...]

Panel:  Middle East Religious Minorities: Hostages of Terrorists and Regimes View video presentations from Coptic Solidarity’s 8th Annual Policy Day. This event was hosted on June 15, 2017, at [...]

By The Associated Press (APNewsBreak) – Egypt is failing to protect free speech and its minorities, investigate abuses by its forces or grant U.S. monitors access to the conflict-ridden [...]

By Egypt Independent – Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stated that human rights concepts shouldn’t be reduced to only political rights, but rather should be dealt with from a [...]

By Aya Hijazi – The Washington Post – Aya Hijazi is an Egyptian American social activist. She was imprisoned in Egypt and acquitted after nearly three years in detention. If you asked [...]

By Bahey eldin Hassan – CIHRS –  Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) Antonio Guterres met with the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Bahey [...]

By Watani – Churches in Egypt have cancelled their summer activities, mainly trips to monasteries or holy sites, spiritual retreats or conventions, and in many cases trips to beaches, in [...]