Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi witnessed on Saturday the launch of the National Human Rights Strategy in Egypt 2021-2026 from the New Administrative Capital. Sisi said that the Egyptian vision of human rights is based on several principles, the most prominent of which being that all rights and freedoms are interrelated and complementary, and there is a close link between democracy and human rights while achieving a balance between rights and duties. “I stress that it is an important step in the history of the Egyptian state, as Egypt was one of the first countries that contributed to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” Sisi added. The President announced 2022 as the year of civil society, calling on its institutions to work diligently to achieve sustainable development and spread awareness of the culture of human rights. He added that the national strategy is the first integrated and long-term self-strategy in the field of human rights in Egypt.
