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Egyptian Streets has collaborated with or supported a number of non-governmental organizations and grassroots movements in order to raise awareness and to promote social change and actions on a variety of issues, including the environment (Earth Hour being an example), [15] sexual harassment, animal rights, education, poverty and more.
Category: Social issues in Egypt. 4 languages. ... Social movements in Egypt (1 C, 1 P) A. Animal welfare and rights in Egypt (2 C, 1 P) D. Discrimination in Egypt (3 ...
Egypt's president pardoned two prominent rights activists Wednesday, including one with ties to Italy who was sentenced this week, the country’s state-run news agency reported. Among an ...
Human rights in Egypt are guaranteed by the Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt under the various articles of Chapter 3. The country is also a party to numerous international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Alaa Abd El-Fattah, a 43-year-old British-Egyptian pro-democracy writer, was detained in September 29 2019, and in December 2021 was sentenced to five years in prison after being accused of ...
Mass protests in the Egyptian revolution of 2011 led to the demission of President Hosni Mubarak, the 2012 Egyptian presidential election won by Mohamed Morsi, the 2012–2013 Egyptian protests against the Morsi presidency, the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état which overthrew Morsi, the August 2013 Rabaa massacre by the security forces and army led by general Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and an ...
The motivation behind the 2020 protests are similar to that of the 2019 protests. Many Egyptians had been discontent towards the government because of police brutality [13] and the economic issues the country had been facing as a result of the 2016 austerity measures; [5] [9] in 2020, almost 70% of the Egyptian population lived under the poverty line. [5]
The Ministry of Social Solidarity is the government body responsible for providing social safety networks for Egypt's most vulnerable citizens. Nivine El-Qabbage is its current minister after the previous minister Ghada Waly. Its vision is to reduce the number of poor in the country by providing support and social safety nets.