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  • UN experts condemn Egypt as clampdown “tightens noose” on women’s rights movement
    Dec. 15, 2016
  • Egypt steps up travel bans on rights defenders with “chilling effect”, UN expert warns
    Nov. 24, 2016
  • Egypt NGO bill threatens to “devastate” civil society, UN expert warns
    Nov. 23, 2016
  • The Assembly and Association Briefing, Vol. 3, No. 7 (Issue 24) – October-November 2016
    Nov. 14, 2016
  • Egypt NGO law: UN expert warns about growing restrictions on civil society
    Oct. 11, 2016
  • The Assembly and Association Briefing, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Issue 21) – May-June 2016
    June 21, 2016
  • Egypt: Worsening crackdown on protest, a further setback to human rights – UN experts
    May 9, 2016
  • The Assembly and Association Briefing, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Issue 20) – April 2016
    April 27, 2016
  • UN experts urge Egypt to end ongoing crackdown on human rights defenders and organisations
    April 11, 2016
  • UNSR releases ‘sectoral equity’ country background reports, comparing laws on businesses and CSOs in 34 countries
    Nov. 26, 2015
  • Egypt: UN experts welcome release of Hossam Bahgat but concerns remain on the situation of journalists and rights defenders
    Nov. 11, 2015
  • The Assembly and Association Briefing, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Issue 11) – February-March 2015
    March 12, 2015
  • Mass death sentences in Egypt a profound disgrace, UN human rights experts say
    Feb. 9, 2015
  • The Assembly and Association Briefing, Vol. 1, Issue 9 (December 2014)
    Dec. 10, 2014
  • The Assembly and Association Briefing, Vol. 1, Issue 6 (July-August 2014)
    Aug. 1, 2014
  • Egypt: UN Experts “outraged” at confirmation of 183 death sentences
    June 30, 2014
  • FOAA News Roundup: May 30, 2014
    May 30, 2014
  • Egypt: Justice and reconciliation increasingly failing after second wave of mass death sentences
    May 15, 2014
  • Egypt: Mass death sentences – a mockery of justice
    March 31, 2014
  • Egypt: NGO Bill infringes international standards
    March 28, 2013
  • Egypt: UN experts alarmed at violence and clampdown on fundamental freedoms in run-up to elections
    Nov. 21, 2011

    • Reports

  • Egypt Communications: May 1, 2011 to February 28, 2017
    Feb. 28, 2017
  • The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the workplace
    Oct. 3, 2016
  • 2015: The year in assembly & association rights
    Jan. 14, 2016
  • Comparing States’ treatment of businesses and associations worldwide
    Sept. 16, 2015
  • 2014: The year in assembly & association rights
    Jan. 9, 2015
  • Multilateral institutions and their effect on assembly and association rights
    Oct. 28, 2014
  • Threats against groups most at risk when exercising assembly and association rights
    May 13, 2014
  • Civil Society’s Right to seek, receive and use resources – human, material and financial
    April 24, 2013
  • Best practices in promoting the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
    May 21, 2012
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