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Amidst the illegal occupation, apartheid and ongoing genocide in Palestine, we – the over 250 undersigned civil society organizations and human rights advocates – reiterate our unequivocal denunciation of the World Bank's role in advancing an u
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) hosted a discussion on “The Future of Teachers in Egypt” on October 5, marking World Teachers’ Day.
The undersigned human rights organizations express their grave concern over reports and information they have received and documented regarding protests in several prisons in recent weeks, as well as protests during some court hearings, in which d
The Supreme State Security Prosecution on Sunday ordered Matsadaash journalist Mohamed Ashraf Abu Emeira detained for 15 days pending investigation, following a 10-hour interrogation attended by a lawyer from the Egyptian Initiative for Persona
We, the undersigned civil society organizations and independent media outlets, join together to condemn the escalating crackdown on
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns the security crackdown on the news platform Matsaddash, which began on Monday evening and continued over the following 24 hours.
Masaar and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) call on the Supreme Council for Media Regulation and the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) to publish the full text of their joint decision on children’s social media acco
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) warns against the continued exclusion of married and previously married students from housing at several Egyptian universities.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) welcomes the decision to release 10 non-Egyptian Shia Muslims who were arbitrarily arrested during a recent security crackdown targeting Shia Muslims in Egypt ahead of the Ashura holiday celebr
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) is releasing today a policy paper examining how Egypt’s new Future of Egypt law concentrates extensive powers over public assets and resources in an authority that answers directly to the Presi
The undersigned organizations call on the Egyptian authorities to immediately release photojournalist Hamdi Mokhtar Ali, known as “Hamdi El-Zaeem,” and bring to an end his
