Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi launched on Saturday a national strategy for human rights to develop a comprehensive approach to human rights as an integral part of implementing the country's national development project. The strategy is the "first comprehensive and long-term homegrown-strategy in the human rights field in Egypt," presidential spokesman Bassam Rady said. At the start of the event, the president viewed a documentary film which discusses highlights of current efforts to bolster human rights in Egypt. The event was attended by a number of ministers, state officilal and representatives of human rights and civil society groups. The strategy "includes the main axes of the comprehensive concept of human rights in the state, which is to be integrated with Egypt's national developmental path that consolidates the principles of the establishment of the New Republic and achieves the goals of Egypt's vision 2030," Rady stated. The strategy will build on the progress achieved during the past years in the field of maximising freedoms and rights and overcoming the challenges in this regard, Rady said. This comes with the aim of enhancing and respecting all civilian, political, social, economic and cultural rights, the spokesman added. The strategy strengthens the state's policies in backing the rights of women, youth, the elderly, the disabled and all stratas of society, Rady said.
