Human Rights Day is celebrated on December 10th of each year, as the day when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in 1948.
In this occasion, the United Nations this year chose the slogan of “Youth Standing Up for Human Rights movement”, in order to shed light on the important role of youth in development playing a critical role in the positive change, and to empower young people to know their rights and demand them effectively to achieve global benefits.
While the world celebrates this day, violations of human rights inside Egypt are spreading widely, affecting everyone, violations like arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, fabrication of cases, exceptional and military trials, unfair death and imprisonment sentences , imprisonment, medical negligence in prisons, torture and transferring detainees to very far prisons in inhuman conditions, and murders that exceeded perceptions, especially within Sinai, on the pretext of fighting terrorism, and no prosecution agrees to investigate hundreds of reports of violations that occur. Other kinds of violations also occur, such as; hard living conditions for citizens, education situation is really bad and no capabilities provided, critical health conditions, especially in hospitals, with a lack of supplies and capacity, situation of workers is difficult as well, because many of them have no job, in addition to housing conditions and terrible living conditions.
All citizens are affected by such violations, young and elder men, women and children, all under repression by the Egyptian authorities.
In the midst of these violations, human rights defenders continue to pay a high price for their defense in Egypt, and they are arrested, fabricated, and many of them imprisoned.
Perhaps the suicides that are committed by young people in Egypt is a dangerous warning of the way things are.
If human rights are wasted, everyone is in grave danger.
We call on thinking of humanity, within the framework of respect and adherence to the Egyptian constitution, national laws and international covenants binding on the Egyptian government, while considering the deteriorating human rights conditions in Egypt, and working to implement the principle of the rule of law in all legislative, executive and judicial procedures and practices.
Equality, justice, and freedom are the bulwark against violence and cause the sustainability of peace, and we need to stand up defending our rights and the rights of others, as no development can be achieved without looking at the human rights situation. The absence of human dignity is the obstacle to any development. If we want our homelands to rise, we must review all practices that cause the deterioration of the human rights situation, and work to stop them with measures that work to implement the concept of accountability, and prevent Impunity for everyone who caused them, joining hand to stop them as soon as possible.
Signatories:
-Justice for Human Rights (JHR) – Istanbul
-El Shehab For Human Rights (SHR) – London
-Salam International Organization For Protection of Human Rights – SPH- London
-AFD International – Brussels.
-Human Rights Monitor (HRM) – London
-Najda For Human Rights(NHR) – London
-Organistion of European ALliance ( AED ) – Paris.