EU: Egypt Support Risks Complicity in Abuses

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image EU foreign affairs high representative Josep Borrell (L) meets with Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry, July 13, 2021. © 2021 Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Brussels) – The European Union’s negotiations on an upgraded bilateral partnership with Egypt risk missing an opportunity to press for human rights reforms in the midst of the country’s ongoing economic and human rights crises, Human Rights Watch said today, in releasing a December 6, 2023, letter to EU leaders and member states. The partnership will likely include additional political and economic support…

Read complete article

~	If Europe wants to ‘go it alone’ on security, countries need to learn to sing from the same songsheet

~	The political painting that is still on trial in South Korea: How the unending Korean War became a permanent excuse to criminalize expression

~	Japan’s turning point for LGBTQ+ rights

~	Bird flu is deadly for backyard chickens – and even cats. A vet expert explains

~	Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jenny McAllister on ‘confronting but necessary’ NDIS reforms

~	Was Venezuela struck by an earthquake ‘doublet’? Here’s what we know so far

~	Caps are coming for domestic uni places, but the government also wants to grow student numbers. Can this work?

~	Grattan on Friday: Now’s the time to renovate multiculturalism, elevating ‘interculturalism’

~	Summer’s new normal is a hazard that’s testing Europe’s climate resilience

~	Lucy Guerin’s greatest legacy is she made her contemporary dance company more than herself