Day of the Endangered Lawyer 2021 seminar on…
The Day of the Endangered Lawyer 2021 focuses on Azerbaijan. This seminar on 21 January addresses challenges faced by lawyers there in practising their profession.
Ahead of Egypt’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) pre-session, we've produced an advocacy factsheet with the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy.
The factsheet complements the joint stakeholder report that we published in March 2019 as part of the UPR process.
The UPR is a mechanism of the United Nations created to examine the human rights performance of all United Nations member states.
Egypt’s UPR is set to take place on November 13, 2019.
Egypt’s UPR pre-session, which took place on 9 October 2019, presented an opportunity for stakeholders to engage with states in conversations about Egypt’s human rights record in the lead-up to the UPR.
Our international human rights adviser, Dr Marina Brilman, spoke on the panel of Egypt’s pre-session at the United Nations in Geneva on the lack of judicial independence.
Much like the joint stakeholder report, the factsheet traces the consolidation of authoritarian rule through legislation, as well as the crackdown on members of the legal profession and civil society.
The factsheet assesses Egypt’s failure to adhere to its commitments from the previous UPR cycle. It focuses on: