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Analyzing paper around farmers’ movement in the Egyptian countryside
This report monitors farmers’ movement in addition to the role of the political forces and NGOs that work in the rural areas since 1997. It comprises three parts
The first part; farmers’ movement in Egypt in 1997 between resistance and dream of change
This part shows resistance means that farmers used before applying the law like farmers’ conferences and their protesting demonstrations through which they faced governmental violence that was followed by individual conflicts between tenants, land owners and security forces. The report points to the numerous numbers of violations that the tenants faced during law implementation like obligating farmers to abandon their lands, evicting them from their houses, preventing them from their legal rights and torturing them. It emphasizes that these violations in addition to the governmental violence was the most important way that was used to abort farmers’ movement in order to execute the law
The second part; reading in Egyptian farmers’ movement
It comprises an analysis for farmers’ movement from its beginning and through its development. It shows the role of NGOs that lost its historical chance. These organizations had to show and develop farmers’ movement and connect it with the whole society that the movement lost its fruits between different strategies and ambitions of the political forces and limited objectives of the farmers themselves in addition to the political atmosphere that led to completed dominance of the government over the movement. The part connects between the movement and the cultural and political heritage of the farmers, who used to struggle for their rights. It asserts that although the movement didn’t achieve its main objective, it was the main factor that put farmers’ problems on the map of the national work
The third part; the reaction of the Egyptian political forces towards law no(96)
This part shows the reactions of different political forces towards the law like El-Wafed party, Naserian, Islamic groups and Land Center for Human Rights. It explains that although the movement didn’t achieve its aims, we made use of it as the first step to discover the countryside with all its circumstances in order to improve its conditions
Finally, the report inserts that millions of farmers, women, youth and children live in hard living conditions that they are prevented from their rights of food, education, healthcare, work, suitable income, housing and etc. they need to struggle to achieve their humanistic rights in addition to efforts of leaders and cultured persons to change the economical policies that prevent poor people to have safe life .