On 23 November, 25-year-old accountant Saad Saeed was found dead after being tortured and beaten to death by police officers in a Giza police station. His face was disfigured, and he had been left on the pavement for nine hours before his family was (...)
The latest draft of the constitution includes a clause that would limit the rights held by women to those compatible with the “rules” of Islamic jurisprudence. Every other aspect of the draft constitution is constrained merely by the “principles” of (...)
Elections for the Coptic Orthodox Church's 118th pope are under way at a time in which the role of the papacy is in turmoil.
Some Copts have balked against the church as their political representative and for what many see as passive support for the (...)
Activists in Egypt expressed enthusiasm after the first session of ousted President Hosni Mubarak's trial took place this morning at the Police Academy in New Cairo.
Mubarak showed up in court, alongside his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, his former (...)
CAIRO: For the past couple of years a new trend in the non-profit sector has been gradually spreading; that of professional skill-based volunteer work. While philanthropy has existed in the Egyptian culture, it was largely, until recently, in the (...)
CAIRO: The National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute (NHTMRI) launched earlier this week the Virus C Free Child Project offering 1,000 children free treatment for Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in Egypt.
Funded by the Ministry of (...)
CAIRO: The International Labor Organization's (ILO) Egypt office denied media reports claiming Egypt has been blacklisted among the worst 25 nations in labor legislation.
“The list was placed in alphabetical order,” said Walid Osman, ILO public (...)
CAIRO: Now in its eighth year, the “Walk the World” fight against hunger organized by the World Food Program (WFP) in collaboration with TNT, Unilever and DSM companies, took place at the American University in Cairo's (AUC) New Cairo Campus on (...)
CAIRO: As cities across the world came together on Saturday June 5 to celebrate this year's UN Year of Biodiversity on World Environment Day (WED), the Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs and Wadi Environmental Science Center (WESC) (...)
CAIRO: Four-hundred people detained without charge under the emergency law have been released, the official state news agency MENA reported Thursday.
But judging from the profile of those released and those who remain behind bars, a number (...)
CAIRO: Originally a Roman garrison town named Rhinocolorum ("Noses Cut Off") after the fate of dissidents exiled there, Al-Arish, the capital city of the North Sinai governorate, historically has experienced more than its fair share of (...)
CAIRO: In a country where football is the sport of choice, public opinion was not in favor of Finance Minister Youssef Boutros Ghali's decision to finance the purchasing of broadcasting rights of 22 of the World Cup matches.
Ghali announced (...)
CAIRO: Legal experts called for amending the court system in Egypt, accelerating the litigation procedures, in a two-day conference held this week.
On May 23–24, the Arab Center for Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP) (...)