2025
February 6, 2025
The government of Egypt has taken a systematic approach to human rights enhancement through institutional capacity building, with particular emphasis on youth engagement, women’s empowerment, and judicial system modernization. The scale and scope of these programs indicate significant resource allocation to human rights improvement across multiple sectors.
February 6, 2025
The National Human Rights Strategy (NHRS) 2021-2026 is the first of its kind in Egypt, it focuses on advancing all human rights in Egypt through enhancing respect for all civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, stipulated for in the Constitution, national laws, and international and regional instruments ratified by ...
February 6, 2025
The Egyptian government has made significant investment in social infrastructure and services to maintain and expand economic, social, and cultural rights. A central focus was the Presidential initiative for human development, A New Beginning for Building the Egyptian, to invest and coordinate across government and NGO sectors to improve the ...
February 3, 2025
In the third year of the implementation of the NHRS, Egypt made considerable progress in guaranteeing and advancing civil and political rights for all Egyptians.
2024
August 29, 2024
Egypt has instituted a fundamental shift in social protection to reflect a human rights-centered approach to support the development of the country and its people. The National Human Rights Strategy, a first of its kind in Egypt, is a comprehensive approach to engage the whole of society and implementing changes ...
March 6, 2024
Egypt is at the center of managing multiple crisis in the region; with the conflict in Gaza, the shipping attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, and multiple refugees fleeing from Sudan, South Sudan, Libya, Syria and other conflicts in the region...
2023
December 15, 2023
The Rafah Border Crossing point is open and has been open from the Egyptian side since the beginning of the conflict. The government of Egypt has maintained an open border crossing even as it works to keep Egyptian border control officers and Egyptian citizens safe during active hostilities in the ...
September 8, 2023
Exercise BRIGHT STAR 2023 (August 31 – September 14) is a multilateral military exercise led by the Arab Republic of
Egypt’s Army and United States Central Command (CENTCOM). It is the biggest, longest-running and most significant
military exercise in the Middle East that covers multiple scenarios of conventional and irregular warfare. Bright ...
July 28, 2023
A nationally owned and driven political process aiming to generate a dynamic dialogue amongst different segments
of the society and a broad range of stakeholders to address and respond effectively to the most pressing issues of
top priority to Egypt.
July 17, 2023
Since the 1978 Camp David Accords and the 1979 Egypt-Israel Treaty of Peace, the Arab Republic of Egypt has been a constant
and vigilant ally to maintaining regional and global security.
February 1, 2023
President El-Sisi Meets U.S. President Biden in Sharm El-Sheikh, Accelerating Global Efforts to Tackle the Climate Crisis.
January 31, 2023
Looking back on the major events of 2022
2022
August 1, 2022
Egypt is committed to deliver its fair share of climate actions as part of the efforts to address climate change. Taking into consideration Egypt’s high vulnerability, adapting to the adverse impacts of climate change is an imperative.
2021