Tag:human rights

Sisi’s Egypt is a Poor Partner for the United States in the Fight Against Terrorism

By Neil Hicks, Human Rights FirstEgyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will visit President Trump at the White House next week. The visit comes at...

Egypt Criticizes Europe’s Human Rights Record at UN Meeting

By POMEDEgyptian Envoy to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Amr Ramadan defended his government’s human rights record at a council meeting on...

Egypt Responds to State Department’s Human Rights Report

By POMEDLast week, the U.S. State Department released its 2016 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. In its report on Egypt, the State Department...

UK publishes its Human Rights Priority Country report for Egypt

By UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office -Restrictions on human rights in Egypt continued in the second half of 2016, including growing restrictions on civil society....

Egypt Shutters Victims Rehabilitation NGO

By POMEDEgyptian authorities shut down the El-Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture today after police sealed off its entrance...

Resetting US Policy Towards Egypt: Combating Terrorism and Enhancing Civil Rights

A Statement by Coptic Solidarity -February 6, 2017 -President Trump now has a golden opportunity to reset US relations with Egypt making human rights...

Obama’s Last-Minute ‘Deal with the Devil’

By WorldTribuneAnother in a series of last-minute executive orders issued by U.S. President Barack Obama is being slammed by critics as “a deal with...

Kuwaiti Writer: The Recent Passing Of The International Religious Freedom Act In The U.S. Indicates That The World Has Had Enough Of Muslim Religious...

By MEMRIIn an article in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas, journalist Ahmad Al-Sarraf wrote about the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act recently passed by...