Programs: Economic and Social Justice

27 May 2025
  • 58% of new loans are allocated to servicing existing debt, and interest is equivalent to 87% of tax revenue

  • Salaries for senior government officials set to increase by 66%, compared to a 17% raise for healthcare workers and 4% for teachers

4 May 2025

 

More than 20 years after the issuance of the “Unified Labour Law No. 12 of  2003”, and after nearly nine years of preparing and proposing various ver sions of an updated labour law, the government has put forward a new labour  bill at a time of extreme instability, severe inflationary pressures, and a cost of-living crisis for the country’s wage earners. 

14 Jan 2025

In the context of the review of Egypt’s human rights record before member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council during the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism in January, a group of women’s rights organisations and initiatives submitted a joint submission on the status of women’s and girls’ rights in Egypt for the period 2019-2024.  

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