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Egypt
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Society
5/15/2025 12:47:47 PM
Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb and Head of the Roman Catholic Church Pope Leo XIV pledged support for the rights of the vulnerable, underprivileged, and oppressed, stressing the urgent need to end ongoing conflicts, particularly in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/8/2025 7:30:01 PM
China has voiced its firm support for Egypt’s sovereignty over the Suez Canal, emphasizing that Cairo’s management and operational rights of the waterway are indisputable.
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World
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Region
5/8/2025 7:16:47 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday told visiting Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa to protect all people in the multi-confessional country.
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Egypt
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Politics
5/3/2025 9:06:12 PM
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) has congratulated journalist Khaled El-Balshy on his re-election as president of the Journalists’ Syndicate, describing the vote as a reflection of the profession’s vitality and democratic spirit.
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World
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International
5/3/2025 7:57:13 PM
Thousands of supporters of an Islamist group rallied in Bangladesh's capital on Saturday to denounce proposed recommendations for ensuring equal rights, including ones related to property, for mainly Muslim women.
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Egypt
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Politics
5/3/2025 2:16:07 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi marked Labour Day on Saturday with a speech celebrating Egyptian workers as central to the country’s economic development, describing them as "key partners" in Egypt’s drive to localize industry, expand job creation, and strengthen technical skills.
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World
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War in Sudan
5/3/2025 12:30:26 PM
Sudanese paramilitary forces killed at least 27 civilians after taking a strategic town in central Sudan, a rights monitoring group said Friday.
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World
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International
5/2/2025 2:27:37 PM
Media rights group RSF warned Friday about "an alarming deterioration in press freedom" in the United States under President Donald Trump as well as "unprecedented" difficulties for independent journalists around the world.
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World
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International
5/1/2025 6:02:58 PM
Climate change, women's rights, displacement, poverty: Afghanistan remains a priority as it faces overlapping crises, the UN's relief chief Tom Fletcher told AFP on Wednesday, deploring "brutal" aid budget cuts.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
4/29/2025 7:32:52 PM
The UN rights chief called on countries to halt a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza, where a total Israeli blockade on aid is pushing the Palestinian territory towards a collapse of critical life-saving support.
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World
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International
4/28/2025 7:27:25 PM
China is deploying a growing army of organisations masquerading as NGOs to monitor and intimidate rights activists at the UN, a new investigation by the ICIJ media consortium said on Monday.
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World
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International
4/27/2025 12:18:47 PM
Three American children aged two, four and seven -- one of whom has a rare form of cancer -- have been deported from the United States alongside their undocumented immigrant mothers, campaigners announced Saturday.
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World
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Africa
4/23/2025 7:25:18 PM
A media rights monitoring group condemned on Wednesday the detention of three Ethiopian reporters working for one of the country's most widely read outlets, and urged the return of seized equipment.
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World
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International
4/22/2025 9:00:57 PM
President Donald Trump's top diplomat Marco Rubio on Tuesday unveiled a restructuring of the US State Department that will cut positions and scale back human rights offices, saying the "bloated" organization was ideologically out of sync with the administration.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
4/18/2025 12:14:00 PM
Major General Mohamed Ibrahim El-Dawiry, deputy director of the Egyptian Centre for Strategic Studies, discusses the risks and challenges facing the Palestinian people and their cause.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
4/17/2025 1:22:15 PM
Palestinian prisoners' rights groups announced that Palestinian detainee Musab Hassan Adili had lost his life in an Israeli jail.
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Egypt
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Society
4/13/2025 10:00:51 PM
Hany Ibrahim has been appointed the acting secretary-general of the National Council for Human Rights.
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Egypt
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Society
4/12/2025 1:41:31 PM
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) has denied reports that its former Secretary-General, Ambassador Fahmy Fayed, was dismissed from his post, stating instead that he resigned voluntarily.
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World
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War in Sudan
4/10/2025 10:56:00 AM
Sudan's paramilitary forces subjected women to sexual slavery and gang raped women and girls as part of their war strategy, rights group Amnesty International said in a report on Thursday.
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World
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International
4/9/2025 11:12:59 AM
More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and around $790 million for Northwestern University have been frozen while the government investigates alleged 'civil rights violations' at both schools, the White House says.
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