Latest in Tag: ECESR Highlight
Latest in Tag: ECESR

ECESR launches budget handbook series
Series published by Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights uses International Budgets Partnership to rate governments according to fiscal transparency

ECESR sues prosecutor general and cassation court chief justice
The Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights is requesting the lifting of judicial immunity for officials who failed to release pardoned detainees

Labour strikes and protests double under Morsi
Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights reports increasing trend of strikes and protests since President Mohamed Morsi came to power

ECESR sues government over budget transparency
Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights and political parties demand government reveal annual budget proposal before adopting it

Comatose protester’s family calls for assistance
Mo’awad Adel’s mother sends a legal notice demanding funds for her son to be treated abroad

Shepherd workers continue sit-in for the third day
Workers demand their late payment, and adjustments in contracts

Administrative Court refers weapon-banning lawsuit to SCC
Four human rights organisations filed a lawsuit with the Administrative Court calling for a ban on the use of weapons by police to disperse protests

Ramlet Boulaq residents reject police violence and government attempts to evict them
The area’s official popular committee held a press conference rejecting a government plan that would see them relocated for two years

Police assault two human rights lawyers
Central Security Forces conscripts attacked lawyers from two human rights groups for objecting to their abuse of detainees

Al-Shafa’i released
Suez court ruled there was insufficient evidence to keep him incarcerated while investigations ongoing

Injured doctor to be treated at state’s expense
The administrative court rules in favour of doctor injured during the Friday of Rage

Deadly clashes in Qorsaya
Army claims Qorsaya land

Human Rights Corner: Ramlet Boulaq – A battle of social justice
Bread, freedom, human dignity