Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi launched on Saturday, 11 September the first homegrown National Strategy for Human Rights 2021-2026 at the New Administrative Capital, which is described as the first “integrated strategy that promotes the principles of the new republic and Egypt’s development vision,” the Presidency said in a statement. The event began with a speech by Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry, who is the president of the Supreme Permanent Committee for Human Rights, chaired by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Established in 2018, the committee was given the responsibility to provide a new structure for Egypt’s human rights strategy through carrying out a number of consultations and negotiations with several stakeholders in society, including the human rights recommendations put forth by Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights, the parliament’s human rights committee, academics, the business community, and civil society. Shoukry added that the committee also paid particular attention to international and regional outlooks on Egypt’s human rights situation and assessed the final recommendations issued by the UN bodies as well as the most effective mechanisms needed to implement human rights strategies of more than 30 countries. Four main…
