The farmers’ issue represents a new & very
important dimension for the Human Rights movement in Egypt for several reasons:
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The inadequacy of a legislative structure to
protect agrarian laborers. In consequence, they are exposed to daily violations.
The main targeted categories are women, children & permanent or seasonal
agrarian laborers.
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The widening gap between urban and rural
Egypt, especially in the services. Thus, a wide category of people are exposed
to excessive violations due to the deteriorating economic & social conditions.
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Giving attention to the farmers’ rights and
the agrarian sector in Egypt underlying the new policies of liberating the
markets and studying how that affects their lives and the agronomical economy.
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The violations that the female rural laborers
are exposed to domestically or at work or due to the deteriorating social
conditions in general.
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The increasing phenomenon of child labor in
Egypt and of the rate of illiteracy.
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The conditions of permanent & temporary agrarian
laborers, especially those relating to contracts, vacations & regulations of
their rights & duties.
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Providing legal aid to the farmers’
associations, unions and syndicates.
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Enabling female agrarian laborers to face the
violations that she is exposed to due to her sex or social role.
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Farmers’ health-care & social insurance
programs.
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Defending the agronomical environment against
the hazards of pollution and alerting the farmers with this issue.
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Combating the increasing phenomenon of child
labor.
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Participate in improving the agrarian laborers’
economic and social conditions in rural Egypt.
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To develop & provoke the rural citizens’ minds
about the human rights’ culture and about their own rights.
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Encouraging mutual work between NGOs to enforce
values such as, democracy, human rights, economic social and cultural rights,
etc.
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Formulating the economic reform program in Egypt
to guarantee the farmers’ rights and give them a secure labor atmosphere.
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Exposing the real needs of the poor categories
in Egypt and enabling these categories in the decision making process.
o Providing legal aid
against any violations of the agrarian laborers’ economic, social and civil
rights.
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Issuing reports and studies to uncover the
violations done against the farmers in rural Egypt.
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Holding training courses and publishing
brochures to raise the awareness of the rural citizens of the causes related to
them.
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Forming a network of activists and volunteers to
develop the national labor in the human rights’ arena.
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Seeking strong relations and bonds with
international and local institutions concerned with the arena of development and
human rights.
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Holding symposiums and workshops to discuss the
issues related the farmers’ political, social, cultural and environmental
conditions. Dr. Mohamoud El Saqqa
Professor of Law at Cairo University Dr.Fathy Abdel Fattah
Professor of social science &
Head of information & Research Center at Gomhourya Newspaper Dr.Albeir Beshara Professor of Agricultural
Economics at the Agricultural Research Center Karam Saber Ibrahim
Executive Director Magdy El Madany Research Unit Coordinator Noshy zakhary
Legal Unit Coordinator
Manar Salam Managerial Unit Coordinator Saleh El Bakry
International Relations Unit Coordinator
Samah Ahmed
Information & Documentation Unit Coordinator Mahamoud Hendy Lawyer Shehata Gomaa
Lawyer
Mahmoud Salam Lawyer Ahmed Mohamed
lawyer Maha Hassan
Researcher Hamdy Maabad
Researcher Abou Halawa El Tohamy
Translator
Mervat Sedik
Researcher
El Shaimaa Rezk Translator Ahmed Abdel Fatah
Documenter Mervat Hassan
Documenter Mohamed Eissa
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