Following civil society organisations’ tireless efforts in Palestine and around the world, the UN Office of the High Commissioner fulfilled the mandate entrusted to it by the Human Rights Council in …
Gender Equality: Still a Long Way Down the Line
Messaoud Romdhani “Mind the Gap!!” In 1993, the UN General Assembly issued the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, defining such violence as “any act of gender-based violence …
A Question of UN Credibility: Releasing the Settlements Database
by Nada Awad, Maha Abdullah Hundreds of Palestinian, regional, and international organizations have called on the previous and current UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to release the UN database of companies engaged in …
Libya and International Justice Symposium: Impunity Begets Impunity
International accountability as a tool to empower and protect [Jeremie Smith is the Director of the Geneva Office at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and Karim Salem is Libya …
New Political Struggles for Egypt’s Military
The internal debates over new amendments in Egypt reveal the renewed struggle between the president and the military for political dominance. Much of the focus on the Egyptian constitutional amendments …
Why we’re pushing back against the Egyptian president’s constitutional coup
This has been a grim month for Egyptians who seek a better life and believe in dignity and freedom. First, on April 9, there was President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi’s visit …
Egypt. The Permanent Coup
Throughout the six years that marked President Abdelfatah al-Sisi’s coup on Egypt’s first civilian president, Sisi orchestrated several political, security, legislative, constitutional, and electoral coups. Sisi is currently preparing a …
Open Letter to President Macron Before his Upcoming Trip to Egypt
Published in French on orientxxi.info – 27 January 2019 Bahey eldin Hassan Next week President Macron will be on his first official visit to Egypt. I’m sure he is aware …
The European Union is Responsible for the Refugee Crisis
The European Union’s support for dictatorships in the Arab world is often justified by the fact that authoritarian regimes are a bulwark against terrorism and illegal immigration. In reality, the opposite is true.
The high-level intrigue that’s overshadowing Egypt’s election
Egypt is approaching a critical moment. Since last fall, the popularity of President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi has steadily diminished not only among the public and many of Egypt’s secular and Islamist intellectuals but also among key supporters of his regime. He’s still going to win the sham presidential election scheduled for March 26 to 28. But there are many signs that his second term might not last for as long as he hopes.