Situation of civil society in Egypt : legal and political challenges of human rights NGOs before and after the 2011 revolution

dc.contributor.advisor De Stefani, Paolo
dc.contributor.author Puisto, Janica
dc.date.accessioned 2018-02-28T12:21:38Z
dc.date.available 2018-02-28T12:21:38Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.description Second semester University: University of Padua. en_US
dc.description.abstract In the context of global concern for diminishing civil society space, this study examines the situation of civil society in Egypt which has witnessed political instability since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. The aim of this research is to assess the legal and political challenges of human rights NGOs before and after the 2011 revolution. Instead of providing an exhaustive retrospect on Mubarak’s thirty-year presidency, the main objective of the research is to clarify the current and future situation of human rights NGOs in Egypt. The interdisciplinary methodology includes the legal analysis of the association Law 84 of 2002 and other related laws, practical examples, and interviews with human rights NGO professionals in Cairo. The thesis concludes that the legal challenges for human rights NGOs have stayed rather consistent since Mubarak’s presidency until today as the Law 84 of 2002 on associations has remained unamended. In addition, the human rights NGOs have continued to encounter similar interferences particularly by the national security forces before and after the 2011 revolution. However, in the post-Mubarak period, the political rhetoric and interventions against human rights NGOs has strengthened, thus, the organisations and their employees are threatened to be stigmatised as terrorists or foreign agents. Furthermore, other laws in the post-Mubarak era such as the new Protest Law have increasingly restricted the freedom of civil society. Moreover, Egypt’s future under the new President el-Sisi does not seem to bring legal or political reforms for more allowing civil society environment. en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/20.500.11825/438
dc.identifier.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.25330/1695
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries EMA theses 2013/2014;58
dc.subject civil society en_US
dc.subject Egypt en_US
dc.subject human rights en_US
dc.subject NGOS en_US
dc.title Situation of civil society in Egypt : legal and political challenges of human rights NGOs before and after the 2011 revolution en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
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