CAIRO: Egyptian as well as Arab human rights organizations accused their governments of tolerating human rights violations in their countries during the United Nations’ Human Rights Council session in Geneva on March 2.
During the session, 13 human rights organizations said the deteriorating human rights conditions in the Arab world can be attributed to the Arab governments’ reluctance to implement reform.
The organizations highlighted employing “excessive force when cracking down on opposition movements and protests namely in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and Sudan.
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) said that “poverty and economic problems are not an excuse for violating human rights.
CIHRS Executive Director Moataz El-Fegiery said that the UN Human Rights Council is preparing a report on human rights conditions in the region in a bid to combat violations.
El-Fegiery told Daily News Egypt that these organizations wanted to portray a realistic image of the human rights conditions in the Arab world, refuting the reports their governments present to the council “which always convey a false image.
“The council has documents it can use against Arab governments, and [it can] freeze or annul their memberships, he said.
