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1 Raising Awareness of Human Rights Violations Group A In Egypt

2 ELECTION FRAUD in Egypt

3 Source: tvcnews.com Hamdeen SabahiAbdel Fattah el-Sisi

4 Source: www.globalpost.com

5 Source: hurriyetdailynews.com

6 EMERGENCY LAW in Egypt

7 Emergency Law police an excusive amount of power limiting the power of the civilians imprison anyone for virtually no reason sit in jail for any period of time

8 History 1967-1980 Arab-Israeli War 1981-2012 president Anwar Sadat August 14, 2014

9 Human right violations Freedom of speech Freedom of torture Right to life

10 POLICE BRUTALITY in Egypt

11 Brutality and excessive force Kidnappings Murders Rapes Humiliation

12 Riots and Victims Why are there riots? Men, Women, Children

13 Civil Rights Is limited to the control of the police Have Things truley changed after Morsi? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (left) speaks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on July 22, 2014.

14 Human Trafficking in Egypt

15 Since 2010, traffickers in eastern Sudan have kidnapped hundreds Eritrean refugees Selling them to Egyptian traffickers who rape and torture them in Egpyt’s Sinai Peninsula Holding them hostage till they pay ransom

16 Egyptian officials deny trafficking victims their rights under Egypt’s Law on Combating Human Trafficking Instead, victims are charged with immigration offenses, without any medical care. Some victims die, and survivors are kept in inhumane conditions for months.

17 DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN in Egypt

18 According to BBC, Egypt is ranked the worst country for women out of all twenty-two of the Arab countries. A UN report found that 99.3% of girls and women in Egypt have been subjected to some type of sexual abuse

19 Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is now the current president of Egypt and he has been doing things to improve women’s rights and their living standards. The New York Times talks about how Mr. Sisi became the first Egyptian president to acknowledge sexual violence, when he paid a visit to the victim of that gang rape, who was recovering in a hospital, and apologized to her. Mr. Sisi vowed to take “very decisive measures” to combat sexual violence

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21 Works Cited http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/05/egyptians-prepare-second-day-polls- 201452721124420247.html http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/05/egyptians-prepare-second-day-polls- 201452721124420247.html http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/05/28/el-sisi-likely-to-win-egypt-election-but-questions- about-mandate-remain/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/05/28/el-sisi-likely-to-win-egypt-election-but-questions- about-mandate-remain/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/30/AR2006043001039.html http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/08/201381413509551214.html http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-25121936 http://www.dw.de/police-brutality-in-egypt-back-in-the-spotlight/a-17302014 http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/03/egypt-khaled-said-alexandria-trial-police- brutality.html# http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/03/egypt-khaled-said-alexandria-trial-police- brutality.html# http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/02/11/egyptsudan-traffickers-who-torture http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/02/report-officials-aid-sudan-egypt-trafficking- 201421163658367107.html http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/02/report-officials-aid-sudan-egypt-trafficking- 201421163658367107.html "Egypt 'worst for Women' out of 22 Countries in Arab World." BBC News. N.p., 12 Nov. 2013. Web. 08 Oct. 2014. Eltahawy, Mona. "The New York Times." Egypt Has a Sexual Violence Problem. N.p., 20 June 2014. Web. 08 Oct. 2014 "Now Is the Time." The Economist. The Economist Newspaper, 15 Oct. 2011. Web. 08 Oct. 2014.


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