Attending a memorial is not easy, especially for the family of the lost member. However, the Younes family made of the Nadia Younes Memorial Lecture, celebrated year after year at the American University in Cairo (AUC), an event to contemplate the (...)
“I Have a Dream” is the title given to a legendary public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr on 28 August 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States.
It was delivered to over 250,000 (...)
As a human rights activist since 2004, when a group of journalists and myself launched a non-governmental organisation from Geneva — the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) — geared to defend journalists in conflicts zones, my eyes followed other rights (...)
My eyes recently fell on an important letter addressed to Egypt's Feminist Union, led by Dr Hoda Badran, by the high representative and vice president of the European Union (EU), Lady Catherine Ashton.
Since few people have read it I thought it a (...)
Hedayat Abdel Nabi, Editor in Chief of the Arabic Edition of Beyond "MaBad" represented AFICS-Egypt at the NGO/Media forum held at the margin of the Arab Economic and Social Summit held in Kuwait, 19-20 January 2009. At the request from AFICS-Chair (...)
Human rights abuses, and how to deal with them, threaten the international human rights system itself, writes Hedayat Abdel Nabi*
The overdue decision of the European Union (EU) to press for the holding of a special session of the UN Human Rights (...)
A new report on the state of development of Mediterranean countries gives cause for concern as well as some hope for the future, writes Hedayat Abdel Nabi*
A new report entitled "," praises projects in Egypt and calls for Mediterranean partnerships. (...)
In a recent interview, BEYOND's Hedayat Abdel Nabi solicited Somavia's views on the global labour agenda as well as issues of significance to Egypt
The Director-General of the International Labor Organization (ILO), , former Ambassador of Chile to (...)
The UN has shaped up well to the demands of global media, writes Hedayat Abdel Nabi
No one experiences the interaction of media with the UN like international correspondents; it is this category of media that deals on a daily basis with UN news, (...)
Mervat Tallawy, the UN's top official in the West Asia region, talks to Hedayat Abdel-Nabi of the challenges facing the region
Mervat Tallawy's long and distinguished career in Egyptian diplomacy led to her appointment in 1987 as head of the (...)