Rights lawyer Ibrahim Metwally to stand trial in two cases next June after seven years in pretrial detention
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns the ongoing abuses faced by human rights lawyer and coordinator of the Association of Families of the Forcibly Disappeared Ibrahim Metwally.
Istanbul Declaration: Civil Society against shrinking freedoms in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean
We, the participants in the Regional Civil Society Seminar held in Istanbul, Turkey on 2–3 February 2025, in light of wars and the tightening restrictions on public freedoms in our countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean, were compelled to hold our meeting in Turkey to examine the wid
Istanbul Declaration: Civil Society against shrinking freedoms in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean
We, the participants in the Regional Civil Society Seminar held in Istanbul, Turkey on 2–3 February 2025, in light of wars and the tightening restrictions on public freedoms in our countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean, were compelled to hold our meeting in Turkey to examine the wid
EIPR Issues Position Paper on New Labour Law: We Call on the President Not to Ratify the Law
- Benefits included in the law are de facto “suspended”, while its provisions deals severe blows to wages and job security
- Entrenches imbalance between millions of wage workers and business owners and effectively denies workers the right to strike
Joint statement: Reforming Egypt’s Old Rent law in light of the constitutional court ruling.. Proposals to safeguard the right to housing
In a joint statement published today by six human rights and research organisations and lawyers concerned with the right to housing, offered a proposal for reforming the Old Rent Law in the wake of the ruling of the unconstitutionality of fixing rent values last November. In light of the judg
