The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) expresses his deep concern regarding the fate of Egyptian civil society after the ratification of the NGO law and its entry into force on the 24th of May 2017. The Egyptian government ignored civil society requests and appeals to review the law and ammend it, and that leaves Egypt with a civil society law that is incompatible with international human rights treaties and conventions.
EOHR calls upon the Egyptian parliament to ammend this law in order to safeguard the independence of civil society, peaceful assembly and freedom of association so that the right of participation in public life and politics can be assured in accordance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). EOHR believes that the law should reinforce the independence and freedom of civil society in accordance with Egypt's commitment to the recommendations of the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council, as these recommendations included:
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