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
Works Cited• http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/05/egyptians-prepare-second-day-polls-201452721124
420247.html• http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/05/28/el-sisi-likely-to-win-egypt-election-but-questions-abo
ut-mandate-remain/
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/30/AR2006043001039.html• http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/201381413509551214.html
• 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
tml#• http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/02/11/egyptsudan-traffickers-who-torture• http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/02/report-officials-aid-sudan-egypt-trafficking-2014211
63658367107.html
• "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.