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Egypt
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Politics
5/31/2013 1:58:25 PM
In Friday statement, 40 Egyptian civil society groups accuse Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood – from which President Morsi hails – of attempting to establish 'new police state' through controversial NGO bill
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Egypt
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Politics
5/31/2013 12:25:07 PM
Presidential advisor Pakinam El-Sharkawy calls criticisms of new NGO bill 'irrational,' urges draft law's detractors to engage in 'positive' dialogue
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Egypt
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Politics
5/30/2013 9:40:25 PM
US-based rights watchdog says new NGO bill – drafted by presidency – 'dashes all hopes that independent groups might operate freely and independently' in post-revolution Egypt
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Egypt
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Politics
5/29/2013 7:21:46 PM
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Egypt
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Politics
5/29/2013 4:48:21 PM
Presidential spokesman claims final version of NGO bill, which was submitted to parliament's Shura Council on Wednesday, is 'substantially different' from earlier versions
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Egypt
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Politics
5/28/2013 9:44:29 PM
As Egypt's presidency hails fresh amendments to proposed legislation regulating Egyptian civil society, human rights advocates remain broadly unsatisfied
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Egypt
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Politics
5/24/2013 1:51:32 AM
Rights campaigners say NGOs in Egypt – both local and foreign – are destined to draconian constraints if new Muslim Brotherhood-drafted legislation is passed
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Opinion
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5/13/2013 6:22:03 PM
The draft legislation on access to information ignores civil society recommendations and will lead to a toothless information watchdog that is beholden to ill-defined 'national security' interests
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Egypt
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Politics
4/5/2013 12:17:09 PM
The European Union's envoy to Cairo urged Egypt's Islamist-led authorities on Thursday not to rush through legislation on civil society and NGOs that could curb an embryonic democracy
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Business
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Economy
3/29/2013 2:30:09 PM
Egyptian and foreign governments have not been trying hard enough to recover assets stolen by former Mubarak regime figures, argued civil society experts
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Egypt
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Politics
3/28/2013 12:42:17 PM
Honouring the Arab Spring revolutions, this year's World Social Forum is being held in its epicentre, Tunisia
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Egypt
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Politics
3/26/2013 6:08:20 PM
Over objections of civil society organisations, upper house of Egypt's parliament approves 'in principle' new legislation – drafted by Muslim Brotherhood's FJP – regulating activities of foreign NGOs
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Egypt
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Politics
3/12/2013 3:38:58 PM
Urban planners, architects, academics, civil society activists, sociologists, and state planner discuss Egypt's growing informal housing crisis
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Egypt
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Politics
2/24/2013 9:17:14 PM
In first trip to country as US secretary of state, John Kerry is scheduled to meet with Egyptian government officials, civil society representatives and businessmen
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
2/16/2013 12:00:00 AM
Ahram Online rode the underground with Noon Creative Enterprise as they put on one of their dozens of performances over the past two weeks in Cairo's metro cars, opening conversations with commuters on sexual harassment
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Egypt
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Politics
2/7/2013 6:41:17 PM
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) has claimed that draft legislation would dramatically restrict the work of civil society in Egypt if it is passed
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Egypt
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Politics
1/16/2013 8:39:21 PM
Egypt's Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) gives local and international civil society groups until mid-February to apply for supervisory role in upcoming parliamentary polls
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Arts & Culture
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Music
1/7/2013 12:00:00 AM
The Nile Project in Aswan launches to tackle water scarcity issues by fusing connections between the people of Nile Basin - through music
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Egypt
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Politics
11/6/2012 9:02:37 PM
Various Coptic civil society groups are calling on Morsi to investigate the incident on Monday night when a crowd of Salafists raided land owned by a church in a Cairo neighbourhood
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World
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Region
11/2/2012 3:22:07 PM
Syrian women's civil society organizations and activists convene in Cairo to launch peace initiative, calling for a just and peaceful solution
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