Representatives of Egyptian civil society coalitions hold a press conference in Geneva Okeil: We are here on an outreach mission for enhancing Egypt`s position in the UN human rights system 16\02\2010 On Tuesday, February 16th , 2010 five Associations representing coalitions of various civil society organizations which exceed 90 NGOs held a press conference at the headquarters of the Interna.....

24\10\2009 Through three hearings sessions Maat started a new phase of work on a citizen`s voice project are being carried out in collaboration with the Foundation for the Future (FFF) in some Egyptian governorates and in coordination with a number of NGOs working in these governorates, the project aims to build channels of communication between citizens and members of local popular councils.....

Maat ends 40 seminar held in the framework of citizen`s voice project seminars have been ended and Citizen`s pain does not end 18 \ 10 \ 2009 Maat held 40 seminars in the cities and villages in several Egyptian governorates for more than five months, in which we listened to aches , pains and the problems of nearly 2500 people suffering from the deterioration of infrastructure services a.....

Emergency meeting to discuss the report of the Goldstone The final supplement to the Human Rights Council 14 \ 10 \ 2009 God will and popular rejection wanted not to waste the efforts in vain of Arab human rights movement in the pursuit of Israel and its leaders, and popular pressure and objections resulted in Arab political movement in the Human Rights Council led to approval of.....

Preventing Niqab and attacks on personal liberty Niqab Crisis with the eyes of human rights 13 \ 10 \ 2009 Government and its affiliates in Egypt are always in the wrong place and make the decisions that trampled the principles of freedom and the clash with human rights standards and the recent Niqab crisis revealed as usual the best proof, that the government is stifle personal liberty.....

In Maat Foundation Seminar Postpone the execution of breastfeeding mother and the triumph of instinct for vengeance 12 \10 \2009 What`s the worst that society is in its institutions, bodies and individuals unable to apply the humanitarian principle! Which agreed by the tolerant teachings of the sky, and legislation of civilized nations, and international instruments that respects human ri.....

In Maat Foundation Seminar Postpone the execution of breastfeeding mother and the triumph of instinct for vengeance 12\10\2009 What`s the worst that society is in its institutions, bodies and individuals unable to apply the humanitarian principle! Which agreed by the tolerant teachings of the sky, and legislation of civilized nations, and international instruments that respects human righ.....

03 \ 10 \ 2009 Crimes against the peoples shouldn`t be a statute of limitations, and the lives of innocent people who were killed , in contravention of all international charters and conventions should not be forgotten, and thrown into the dustbin of world memory, the concerned international organizations should carry out their moral responsibilities in making of these events live on the s.....

Maat demanding transparency of encountered procedures Swine flu arrived to Egyptian prisons 27/09/2009 Swine flu virus that is sweeping the world is now causing waves of panic and terror among the citizens, which found in Egypt, a stable and comfort for a while, specially a fertile and qualified environment , rubbish filled the streets and congestion is the watchword in transport, transp.....

19/09/2009 Peace and the will of God that human beings must seek to be reflected on his own land and establish foundations and pillars under the sky, is the highest goal that had to be for humanity to aspire to achieve and in order to reflect the areas of rivalry, conflict and give up the legacy of pain and sorrow, blood and revenge, which is heavier upon them for centuries. Going through th.....

Civil Society Organizations Alliance sends its report to The High Legation of Human Rights Juridical body in Egypt needs rapid legislative Reforms 29\8\2009 The Solution is Legislative Reform this is the main summery of the Civil Society Organizations Alliance`s report for the Universal Periodical Review (URP) about human rights in Egypt. The final issue of the report was formed by the C.....

Maat Ends Training Courses for Legal Units Project. Refresh Egyptian Legal Movement. 18\08\2009 It is important to refresh the movement of human rights defenders to keep it revived and to be able to fit with political, legal, social, and economical rapid changes in society. Youth generation, especially those who studied law have big chance to communicate with the other through new electr.....

16/08/2009 Why are the executive bodies in Egypt insists on the expulsion of citizens from their mercy and overthrow them from its accounts? Why turn a deaf ear to hear their repeated complaints and close their eyes so as not to see areas of the wound and disease in the their communities bodies which has been neglected and forgotten? These questions remain still in our memory after each p.....

10/08/2009 Like so many others were not surprised when frequently the news topped the newspapers about the problems of drinking water and irrigation water in many patches of the land of Egypt because we felt that and have lived in it for a long time since the beginning of seminars of Citizen`s Voice project which still dominate inside discussions the complaints of the citizens of the low quali.....

05/08/2009 Building new generations of human rights defenders a great goal deserves to make efforts to achieve it and national organizations, governmental and non-governmental organizations working in this area cooperates between each other for it, the construction of this generation will be by focusing on young people recently graduated and the final year students in law schools, because of .....

02/08/2009 Government are servant for peoples and the system is set in order to conform between government and the wishes of the people, not vice versa, summed up these words of Dr. Hossam Badrawy - Shura Council member and the rapporteur the universal periodic review of the National Council for Human Rights - the nature of the proper relationship between the peoples and Governments and the .....

Maat discusses the problems of people in three governorates The dialogue is the beginning of resolving the local problems 01/08/2009 The establishment of direct and constructive dialogue between the principal parties involved in the process of local development is in itself a goal deserve achieving , so the workers in the field of development, whether they are organizations or individual.....

28/07/2009 To say that Egyptians abroad are without a price and they do not have a protected back, without diplomatic bodies caring for their interests is no longer a talk, , and Now the evidence that flow to prove the veracity of this evidence and one of this evidences the information gathered by the Egyptian Alliance against the Death Penalty from the fact that the Libyan authorities isolat.....

20/07/2009 Despite the distance and the divergence of different circumstances and conditions problems of the citizens in Egypt remain the same, no difference between those who live in the far south or live in Delta or live in one of the districts of Greater Cairo, suffering in the end have the same reasons and the same source. This has been demonstrated in seminars held by Maat recently in.....

19/07/2009 Decentralization looks like lush green tree trying to plant it for the first time in the soil of the local administration of Egyptian, which need the care of all the forces of society and its members and its organizations to be established and grow and prosper to cover the country within its shadow to protect it from its blazing sun of centralization for many years and caused the .....

Maat held new seminars in the framework of citizen`s voice project Access to water and sanitation are violated rights in Al-Ayat and Atfaih 12/07/2009 Seminars held by Maat in the framework of citizen`s voice project still proves that ties of friendship between citizens and the government are cut off , and their elected representatives in local people`s councils even in parliamentary ass.....

Spotlight on some of the international mechanisms for the protection of human rights Close cohabitation of large events of nations in the area of human rights may not have much opportunity to perform many important rights reviews in the life of any organization in the way of any human rights activist because its the guarantee the continuity of the organization in achieving its goals and serve.....

The start of NGOs Initiative Network for Supporting Decentralization Decentralization is the title of the good provision 04/07/2009 Decentralization is the basis of the reform of local government of Egypt, and it is the key word of the reform of local administration and to get rid of the corruption that has spread in its system and turn into a positive element in the system of local deve.....

21/06/2009 There are another image of the women in the media, not like what is marketed to us by business-profit companies even on the bodies of women, and not like which promoted by the Kitsch machine in its destructive product which is empty from any taste or morality, the image of women in the media not only presence in the visible media even if they occupy a wide area in it either positi.....

The Reviews of new generation on the sidelines of the session 11 of the Human Rights Council No voice rises above the voice of development 17/06/2009 Relationship of human rights and development the same like relationship of spirit and body cannot be separated there would be no human development in a society that lacks respect for human rights, which in turn will definitely be secure und.....

Reviews of new generation on the sidelines of the session 11 of the Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur .. Protective mechanisms needs fangs and talons 13/06/2009 Expansion of the mechanisms and multiplicity of procedures in the UN system for the protection of human rights, evidence that the international human rights movement is in the right context and invent for itself what can co.....

12/06/2009 Every international effort aimed to cracking down on perpetrators of violations of human rights is commendable, and all ideas aimed to pushing the governments to adhere to international standards of human rights, labor provisions, covenants and covenants that the world approved on them in this regard should be supported by all human rights defenders in the world, therefore constant.....

11/06/2009 The world has walked a great distance to get rid of slavery and slavery and to achieve the equality of human beings, participated in the realization of these human achievement teachings of divine religions and the status of laws and charters and international treaties, and prophets and rulers and philosophers, all of that contributed to the composition of this picture in theory at .....

10/06/2009 Governments when dealing with the demands of marginalized groups made us get used on the minimum response and do not reach to the extent of the full saturation of the needs of the claimants this applies fully to the government`s handling of the Egyptian in Egypt with the demands of the women`s movement, and the appeals of the political empowerment of Egyptian women, and provide fav.....

09/06/2009 Sometimes the problems of the citizens are simple , close to solve and their needs are modest and easily to achieve and to response, but the recurrence of neglect and lack of listening by the Executive convert the simple problem to a crisis on the case too complex, and prevents the claimant from the modest to the mountains of concerns that can not be resolved at one go and does not.....

08/06/2009 Demanding for the economic and social rights is now on the top of Jurist scene in the world, the international human rights institutions has recognized that it couldn`t not talk about political participation or the right to freedom of association or freedom of opinion and expression in a society that violate the rights of health, housing and education, and lack the minimum require.....

06/06/2009 No benefit from legal provisions which are not binding on the signatories on it because in this case it is not equal to the price of the paper it`s written on, and no value to an international system does not contain a mechanism for accountability to those who do mistakes and not committed to its norms, International justice must have claws and teeth to defend itself and deter thos.....

05/06/2009 We did not imagine or read fortune when we issued our when we issued our previous report about Obama`s visit which we issued under the title Is Obama`s speech in Cairo to end of the conflict and the beginning of the dialogue? And we expected that Obama will confess with what the American military intervention in the region cause the absence of security and peace also to apologize .....

04/06/2009 Newspapers on the morning of June 3, 2009 in Cairo highlights the remarks of officials of the Ministry of Social Solidarity on non-governmental organizations which we understood only a lot of doubts on the usefulness of these organizations and the intention to further restrictions on its work and the development of new restrictions to paralyze its movements, ironically that the ele.....

06/06/2009 Days has proved ratified our reading of the electoral scene in the union long, where the electoral process in the whole of the Bar Association AZ-partisan place against the background, it was attended by political parties and forces, both legal and illegal occupation, while absent, as if politics and parties and the men went looking for a place to declare through which their presenc.....

30/05/2009 There are stains on the land of Egypt fell from the memory of the government , and not included on the agenda for the attention of the executive bodies in attracting candidates and chairs of the People`s Councils, as if it is not a piece of this country, and if citizens do not have Egyptian citizenship as evidenced by their papers, and insisted upon their feelings toward it, despi.....

01/06/2009 The call for dialogue among civilizations is a substantive and positive alternative to the issue of clash of civilizations put forward by Western intellectuals in the last decade of the last century after the end of the cold war between communist east and capitalist West, this call has gained new ground after the eleventh of September / 2001, Where there are two opposite approaches .....

30/05/2009 Still the citizens voice convoy patrolling the cities and villages of Egypt carrying with them the elements of enlightenment, flares and the development of local parties and monitor the pain of the citizens and provide them with platforms - has been deprived of them - to express their dreams and to explain their problems and to address the stakeholders from which they might respon.....

28/05/2009 If intentions are good work will reconciliation, That is the maxim formulated by the scholars of religion, stressed by development experts, and is a lot of successful models of development in Egypt over the sincerity of the words and senses, and perhaps the example embodied in Al Walda estate is the most significant examples of this. This spot which was indiscriminately on the l.....

23/05/2009 Al Harania village may be more popular at the international level of many areas in Egypt because of the nature of archaeological and environmental industries and trade mission, led by industry Alnol hand made carpet, however, this historical village suffers from environmental problems and service shameful forehead and not commensurate with what it deserves to be the same. The semi.....

25/5/2009 One hand did not clap, one foot did not walk and the society that marginalizes its half does not play , this is the simple equation, which was agreed by the professors and political scientists and development experts meeting , and therefore can not be achieved with the weakening of the growth of the community or half of the vulnerability of women by narrowing the opportunities for .....

63 cases of murder within Egyptian families The Egyptian family and the fear of the known 20/05/2009 Seems that the Egyptian family had lost many types of tolerance which shown by the impact of social and economic pressures and the waves of religious intolerance on one hand and compromising it on the other despite that the Egyptian family has the advantage as an Eastern family close ties .....

Clots in the arteries of the Egyptian human rights movements 18/05/2009 We must admit that the achievements of the movements of Egyptian human rights in half a century is threatened to be lost, and the efforts and sacrifices of generations of loyal sons of the movement may go unheeded, and there was no other reason than the desire of some knights of square-free to fight in an illusion battl.....

Discussion seminar in the framework of citizen`s voice project to monitor pains of Albermpel Hospitals without doctors, schools is falling and horror from the Bay of Pigs 17/05/2009 When we decided to start work on citizen`s voice project, we did not imagine that the pain of citizens came to this point, we did not imagine that the neglect of some government departments and ministries rea.....

Maat issue a report about Violence in the Egyptian schools Does schools still a place of virtue?! 14/04/2009 The school is not just walls and courtyard and classrooms only but we remove on the thresholds of schools, robes of intolerance and hatred and leave and get cleaned from our sins on its doors, it is also not just a curriculum, books and human beings but it is factories of creative m.....

Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Sderblom Nathan Sderblom (January 15, 1866-July 12, 1931), near the beginning and near the end of his illustrious career, found his name linked with that of another Swedish citizen of the world, Alfred Nobel. He was called to San Remo in 1897 to conduct the memorial service for Nobel and in 1930 to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Lars Olof Jonathan (called.....

Liberal on papers only Wahid Abdel-Meguid, violated freedom of expression in a human rights conference 08/04/2009 Huge distance between the act and innocent talk with these words, Abdul Rahman Alabnaudi summarized in one of his poems in the condition of those who stands in the distance between the truth and doing it the same statement applies to the situation of those who wear the liberal man.....

Economic empowerment is the solution 13/04/2009 Economic empowerment of marginalized families especially for the families of prisoners is the real beginning to liberate these families from the society`s negative perception and re-integrate them by providing opportunities for its members for a decent living by opening a livelihoods Halal for them , the achievement of economic empowerment for thes.....

In Response to Al Badeel newspaper Is the repression ill who heals? Falling into the trap of polarization, and taking the distribution of spying charges and treason as approach in dealing with others, leading to a decline in human rights movement on the level of maturity reached by the efforts and sacrifices of precedent human rights generations which established the rules of the right to freedo.....

Huge noise and the result is back to square one The strike Lie and a new wounds in the body of freedom 07/04/2009 When we said in our report which we issued before that the strike is a battle where the only loser of it is our country and the strike has no human rights or legal sense we bear in our mind the national interest first and secondly compliance with international conventions and thirdl.....

Maat issue a report on terrorism Societal peace : the only guarantee against terrorism 02/04/2009 Terrorism caused by the absence of social peace and the absence of world peace and not to give the right of peoples to self-determination , it spread because of injustice marginalization and exclusion against certain groups inside the same country . In the context of its ongoing attention and .....

Maat holding a peace day and honor the mothers of prisoners Activating the Responsiblity of businessmen toward the families of prisoners and detainees 22/03/2009 Those who have the high financial capacity and the high economic activities in the community should be at the forefront of defenders of the rights of the poor and at the forefront of the sponsors of the projects of reintegration and re.....

Black stains in the white dress maat issue a report about Police abuses 14/03/2009 Maintenance of human dignity has always been the focus of all messages and earth laws , It still the central point in the constitutions of States and advices of the Wise and the teachings of the prophets , therefore, the provide of protection of human dignity from the violations is a strong indicator of the extent.....

LeclisioThe knight of Freedom Words Character such as Leclisio, makes us stand in front of us and we do not forget to take a look reflective of what goes on around us, He is an example of Free writer who is free of restrictions, He was able to fight injustice and various forms of colonialism, His life lead us to overcome the difficulties for freedom His Life : Jean-Marie Gustave Leclisio was.....

New success of civil society organizations Alexandria Library honors Maat 08/03/2009 Appreciating the efforts of Maat Foundation for Peace and Development and Human Rights in the promotion of the role of civil society , Alexandria Library has through the Electronic Forum Info Mall Which was established within the activities of the Arab Reform Forum as one of the best 20 Arab organizations of c.....

Maat issues a report on terrorism and the targeting of tourists The specter of terrorism threaten the future of tourism 05/03/2009 Terrorism has no fixed feature and not driven by specific ideology or a particular thoughts , but it is look like a chameleon colored according to the circumstances and conditions with format which allows him to send the painful blows to the economies of the countri.....

FighterFor The Freedom Of The Poor His Born: Ernesto Guevara was born in May 14, 1928 in Rosario (Argentina), he had asthma disease in his childhood and it stay with him for life. His family settled in Alta Gracie in Al sirad de Cordoba, taking into account the health of their patient son(asthma). In 1944 the family settled in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires. He Studied medicine at the .....

The world Writer...Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz, Abdel Aziz Ibrahim Ahmed Pasha, an Egyptian novelist ,he Obtained Nobel prize in literature, he was born in 11 December 1911, and died on 30 August 2006, Naguib Mahfouz`s wrote since the early forties, and lasted until 2004 , all his novels events taking place in Egypt, he used to write on small Egyption streets in Egypt, and the most famous novel.....

Before children turn into human spare parts Maat issue a report on the abuse of children 22/02/2009 Maybe homelands could make up of their physical infrastructure lost , but it certainly will not be able to compensate for the lost of human resources there is no waste of human resources more than to allow trading in it , and the transforming of children into goods sold and purchased in the wors.....

Recommendations of peace day in Alexandria Stop restrictions of civil society for peace 20\02\2009 The efforts of community development and the consolidation of the values of social peace and the dissemination of the values of tolerance in the Egyptian society wont succeed without the promotion of civil society and stop the restrictions that hampered it and to expand the areas of its work and .....

The great person who don`t talk about him self George Bernard Shaw is a person called for a personal hope, he was able to make his personality from defects of others and despite the difficult conditions, but he took advantage of these circumstances and adapted to the benefit of mankind. He has enriched the creativity and ideas about freedom and science, without restriction, and learn from him th.....

Volunteer work is a life message 4/2/2009 volunteer work is a societal message carries within it a variety of humanitarian and ethical dimensions , those dimensions, which refers to what must be the nature of human sound which the human beings created on it , in the context of that believe ,came the attention of Maat center to be the main axis of the discussion is volunteer work issue which was.....

Maat reaping the fruits of its efforts in the promotion of peace 31/01/2009 That day wasn`t traditional day from peace-days , It was a different day on the level of detail and the level of the spirit prevailing during the event also , was a day clearly embodied of success of Maat center for juridical and constitutional studies , and it ripe fruit of his ongoing and continuing efforts during ove.....

CONTINUING IS THE SOLUTION 25/01/2009 Despite the foggy weather and the cold weather , however the warmth of feelings and familiarity among the participants provided warmth to the place , and spread a spirit of optimism , and generated a lot of hope in the hearts of the family members of prisoners and detainees whom participated in the congregated peace-day in Cairo governorate organized by Maat.....

Hunter of three global peace awards John Hume is one of the most important figures in the history of Northern Ireland has received the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize with David Trimble for their efforts in bringing global peace after the Good Friday Agreement. Since 1983 Hume has become one of the 18 deputies in London in the House of Commons. He is also one of the 3 European Congress representing Nort.....

Societal mobilization for peace 15/01/2009 societal mobilization remains a key word for the success of efforts to the dissemination of the values of peace, tolerance and solidarity in society , which involved in assisting the poor and marginalized groups , community mobilization is based on the mobilization of all civil and governmental efforts and all the organizational and human capabilities a.....

Confucius.. The provide of the China Confucius was the first Chinese philosopher succeeded in establishing the doctrine of containing all the Chinese tradition of social and moral behavior based on the philosophy of personal moral values and that there is a government serving the people, such as the application of the highest moral died in the depth of thought and life, Chinese, Korean, Japanes.....

Maat and the human rights council cooperation for peace 5/1/2009 Events and variables insures the success of the experience of civil society organizations, human rights in Egypt , and the positive movements which made by those organizations in the Egyptian society , and in the framework of its interest in cooperation with those organizations to strengthen and consolidate the dissemination of t.....

The Sainted and non-violence policy Krmchand Gandhi, known as the self-Palmeatma any great or the Sainted , Mahatma Gandhi was born on the second of October 1869 in Port of Bandar Indian province of Gujarat province of the family has a long history in politics, where he found his father and then the post of Prime Minister of the Principality of Port-Bandar, were also famous family businesses. He.....

Human Rights and Human development is Egyptian Story 17-12-2008 I dont care with your name, I dont care with your color but I care with human if he hasnt address These were the words chosen by the artist Mohammed Munir to conclude the celebration held Tuesday evening December 16, 2008 in cooperation between Maat Foundation for Peace , Development and Human Rights and Wadina Foundation for human.....

A mother of three absent young men In the prisons of any police country you may expect to find shapes and kinds of innocent peoples all have the same features drawn by torture of prisons` and detention camps` guardians. In addition, out side jails in the big prison- life- you will found those who mourn for them and wait for their return with no suspension, and others who died without achievin.....

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MOHAMED ELBARADEI Born June 17, 1942 in Egypt, ElBaradei received a bachelors degree in law at the University of Cairo in 1962, and later a doctorate in International Law from the New York School of Law in 1974. During his collegiate years he also joined the foreign ministry, serving as the Permanent Missions of Egypt to the United Nations in New York and Geneva. The position, which stationed him.....

Mother Teresa Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in In.....

NOBEL LAUREATE HENRY KISSINGER Henry Kissinger wonNobel Peace Prize in 1973, and he is oneof the most important personalities that have contributed to the formulation of foreign policy. Whenhe was national security adviser and the minister of Foreign Affairs at the White House, has achieved, of important achievements are still raised extended until today, such as the withdrawal from Vietnam, and s.....

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв ) Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov, born March 2, 1931 in Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai), is a Russian politician. He was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1985 until its collapse in 1991. Gorbachev`s attempts at reformperestroika and glasnostas we.....

Social Peace In Egyptian Society Sameh Fawzy supervise Maat for Juridical And Constitutional Studies Book title: Social Peace In Egyptian Society Publisher : Maat for Juridical and constitutional studies Funded by USAID Address: 1st El Malek Faysal St., Borg Al-Atebaa, 9th Floor, No 908 , Giza, Egypt Tel-fax: 37759512 Mobile :0105327633 - 0126521170 E-mail: maat_law@ya.....