In the context of the latest Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Egyptian government accepted Recommendation No. 42.5, submitted by a number of states (Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, France, Gambia, Ghana, Mexico, North Macedonia, South Sudan, and Ukraine), regarding ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (2006).
#Statement This has been a longstanding demand of the Stop Enforced Disappearances Campaign and human rights organizations since the campaign’s launch in 2015, as part of a set of necessary…