EGYPT: Presidential election was a false start in democratisation, Crisis Group says05 Oct 2005 13:26:13 GMT Source: IRIN CAIRO, 5 October (IRIN) - Egypt’s presidential election in September was a "false

Dismay as Egypt intensifies its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood President Husni Mubarak stepped up his assault on the Ikhwan al-Muslimun in Egypt earlier this month by issuing a presidential

International Religious Freedom Report 2005Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and LaborThe Constitution provides for freedom of belief and the practice of religious rites, although the Government places

Do Muslims deserve democracy? What’s stopping democracy from taking root in Muslim countries? Abdelwahab El-Affendi tackles a thorny issue - Islam DemocracyNew Internationalist Abdelwahab El-Affendi  During the same period, however,

US State of Department Human Rights Report on EgyptReleased by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor-  The Arab Republic of Egypt has been governed by the National Democratic

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The Sundance Film Festival gave top awards to anti-war documentary Why We Fight and human drama Forty Shades of Blue at the end of its 10-day run.

Reacting to Israel’s killing of a Palestinian girl at a UN-run school in Gaza, resistance factions threatened to resume attacks against Israel unless occupation forces immediately stopped their “aggressions against

While accusing the Khartoum government of gross, systematic human rights violations, a UN report revealed Tuesday, February 1, ruling out a US-claim Sudan has pursued a policy of genocide in

The US mainstream society today, there has been a steady decrease (40 percent) of marriage annually from 1970 to 2002...