Raising Awareness of Human Rights Violations

Group A

In Egypt

ELECTIONFRAUD in Egypt

Source: tvcnews.com

Hamdeen Sabahi Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Source: www.globalpost.com

Source: hurriyetdailynews.com

EMERGENCY LAW in Egypt

Emergency Law

• police an excusive amount of power• limiting the power of the civilians• imprison anyone for virtually no reason• sit in jail for any period of time

History

• 1967-1980 Arab-Israeli War • 1981-2012 president Anwar Sadat• August 14, 2014

Human right violations

• Freedom of speech• Freedom of torture• Right to life

POLICE BRUTALITY in Egypt

Brutality and excessive force

• Kidnappings• Murders • Rapes • Humiliation

Riots and Victims

• Why are there riots?• Men, Women, Children

• Civil Rights

Is limited to the control of the police

Have Things truley changed after Morsi?

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (left) speaks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on July 22, 2014.

Human Trafficking

in Egypt

• Since 2010, traffickers in eastern Sudan have kidnapped hundreds Eritrean refugees

• Selling them to Egyptian traffickers who rape and torture them in Egpyt’s Sinai Peninsula

• Holding them hostage till they pay ransom

• Egyptian officials deny trafficking victims their rights under Egypt’s Law on Combating Human Trafficking

• Instead, victims are charged with immigration offenses, without any medical care.

• Some victims die, and survivors are kept in inhumane conditions for months.

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMENin Egypt

• According to BBC, Egypt is ranked the worst country for women out of all twenty-two of the Arab countries.

• A UN report found that 99.3% of girls and women in Egypt have been subjected to some type of sexual abuse

• Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is now the current president of Egypt and he has been doing things to improve women’s rights and their living standards.

• The New York Times talks about how Mr. Sisi became the first Egyptian president to acknowledge sexual violence, when he paid a visit to the victim of that gang rape, who was recovering in a hospital, and apologized to her. Mr. Sisi vowed to take “very decisive measures” to combat sexual violence

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• http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-25121936• http://www.dw.de/police-brutality-in-egypt-back-in-the-spotlight/a-17302014• http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/03/egypt-khaled-said-alexandria-trial-police-brutality.h

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• "Egypt 'worst for Women' out of 22 Countries in Arab World." BBC News. N.p., 12 Nov. 2013. Web. 08 Oct. 2014.

• Eltahawy, Mona. "The New York Times." Egypt Has a Sexual Violence Problem. N.p., 20 June 2014. Web. 08 Oct. 2014

• "Now Is the Time." The Economist. The Economist Newspaper, 15 Oct. 2011. Web. 08 Oct. 2014.