Update 5- Sisi: Launching national strategy for human rights milestone in Egypt’s history

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said the state is exerting continued painstaking efforts to promote the values of citizenship, tolerance, and dialogue, while combating violence and discrimination.
Speaking on launching the strategy on Saturday, He said Egypt has a rich national institutional infrastructure that works on promoting respect and protection of human rights which witness continued development, referring to the establishment of the permanent higher committee for human rights as a key step in enhancing coordinated national work in this domain.
He added that the national councils for women, childhood, motherhood and disabled persons play a pioneering role in promoting rights of these categories.
He said the National Council for Human Rights – as the national independent institution having powers under the constitution – plays a pivotal role in promoting relevant principles, spreading awareness in this regard and presenting an annual report to the state.
He noted that civil society is a key partner in promoting human rights at all levels; political, economic and social.
He said civil society’s contributions are clear and its partnership with the state is indispensable, expounding that this was behind issuing directives to the government to review the old law on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) and this has fructified into issuing a new law regulating civil participation and the activities of civil society institutions.
The issuance of the executive statute of this law will mark a new stage of partnership between the government and civil society, he pointed out.