Press Release ……………………………………….. The Egyptian Coalition for Human Rights and Development condemns the terrorist attacks targeting Erbil International Airport in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The Coalition points out that the armed terrorist factions allied with Iran attacked, on Saturday at 7 p.m., Erbil airport near the U.S. consulate by two drones loaded with explosives. The attack targeted a U.S. military base at the airport, without being able to hit it. The attack did not result in any casualties or material. The Egyptian Coalition for Human Rights and Development states that the airport in Erbil has been subjected to repeated

Press Release ————————————— The Egyptian Coalition for Human Rights and Development in Egypt, an organization which includes 550 NGO’s member organizations, expresses today its strong denunciation of the insistence of Human Rights Watch to disseminate false information about the human rights situation in Egypt. The publicized false information, leads to undermining and weakening the role of national human rights organizations that strive to improve the human rights situation in Egypt through continuous dialogue with state institutions, based on its responsibility and its belief in the capability of national mechanisms to realize the hopes and aspirations of the Egyptian people to

Tuesday, August 24, 2021 Press Release ———————————————– Today, Tuesday, August 24, 2021, the “African Studies Unit” at the Forum of Development and Human Rights Dialogue- FDHRD issued a report on “Women and Armed Conflicts in the African Sahel”. The report discussed the political and security situations in the Sahel region and their impacts on human rights, the violations that occur to women in that region related to violent extremism, some statistically evidences, and the regional and international efforts to curb these violations and raise the levels of women’s social and economic equality. The report indicated that the countries of the

23 August 2021     ……………………………………….. The Egyptian Alliance for Human Rights and Development on Tuesday condemned the armed terrorist attack on worshippers at the Tim village mosque in Tillaberi district in western Niger, which killed 19 people and injured two others.  The Alliance reported that the attack was carried out by gunmen who arrived in the village on foot, targeting civilian residents during evening prayers. The Alliance stressed that targeting houses of worship and killing innocent people is a sinful criminal act, contrary to the teachings of religions, which called for the protection, respect and defence of places of

———————————————————- On the 22nd of August, 2021, the Research and Studies Unit at the Dialogue Forum Foundation for Development and Human Rights issues a report entitled as “The Phenomenon of Intimate Partner Violence in Egypt”. The report explains that recently, many incidents of violence against women as well as women’s violence against men have surfaced. Men in Egypt have been beaten or killed by their wives. It seems that the main motives behind women’ committing these crimes are betrayal, psychological stress, neurological diseases, and changes in Egyptians’ social values, rather than women being violent as social media promotes. In regards

The Egyptian Alliance for Human Rights and Development, in cooperation with the Association of the Arab Center for Human Rights in Menia Governorate, held its third training course on human trafficking. The training tackled the following: International law and combating human trafficking Combating human trafficking in the Egyptian constitution National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking 2016-2021 Human trafficking crimes in Egyptian law Definition of human trafficking Elements of the crime of human trafficking Penalties for the crime of human trafficking It is noteworthy that this is the third of the training sessions that were held in the governorates of Alexandria