UN Human Rights Chief Denounces Egypt’s Media Intimidation
By POMED – On March 7, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein described the Egyptian government’s suppression of freedom of expression in [...]
US Report Says Egypt Falls Short on Rights
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 [...]
Human rights not just political, says Sisi
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 [...]
Bahey eldin Hassan meets UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and calls on the UN to take the lead in rebuilding failing Arab states and establish a UN monitoring mechanism on Egypt
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 [...]
Tillerson: UN Human Rights Council must reform or US will leave
By Mark Hensch – The Hill – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is vowing that the U.S. will leave the United Nations’ Human Rights Council if the organization does not undertake [...]
‘UN failing religious minorities and Christian converts’
By World Watch Monitor – The suffering of persecuted Christians around the world is exacerbated by the failure of UN bodies to fulfill their obligations to uphold religious freedom, a [...]
The votes are in: Members of Egyptian delegation to UN are Trump supporters
By World Tribune – Donald Trump would back Egypt’s ban on the Muslim Brotherhood while Hillary Clinton would undermine the country’s efforts to dismantle the group, members of an Egyptian [...]
