A legal communication submitted last week to ACHPR by US-based NGO, raised concerns over the actions of the Egyptian and Ethiopian government in relation to the Renaissance Dam. US registered NGO, Egyptians Abroad for Democracy, [ More … ]
More than 1,000 human rights violations have taken place in Egypt since the start of 2019, according to the Cairo-based NGO El-Nadeem. In total El-Nadeem recorded 283 cases of individual torture, 30 deaths in custody [ More … ]
After ratifying the controversial NGO law, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has recently ordered the formation of a committee to amend it, following the international criticism he is under for repressing freedoms. Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly [ More … ]
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) released a statement on Friday that highlighted the continuous devastation faced by residents of the besieged Gaza Strip three years after Israel’s 2014 offensive, as thousands of Palestinians in Gaza [ More … ]
Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem released a report on Tuesday, condemning Israeli forces for the “unjustified” killing of a Palestinian woman in Jerusalem last week. Israeli police said at the time that 49-year-old Siham Nimr [ More … ]
A Palestinian rights group slammed on Wednesday the killing of a Palestinian teen by Israeli forces earlier this week, calling the case an “extrajudicial killing” and demanding that Israeli authorities open an investigation into the [ More … ]
– Dozens protest in Cairo to call on authorities to disclose fate of those who have disappeared since Egypt’s 2013 military coup Dozens of Egyptians staged a protest outside the parliament building in Cairo on [ More … ]
While the Obama administration is pouring $1.3 billion in an annual U.S. military aid to the al-Sisi military regime, the Egyptian government is waging war against what it describes as an American-inspired plot to divide [ More … ]
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