The Community, 8/6/2010  "In Egypt 40% of the population lives on less than $1 a day. 30% are illiterate. We are joining the list of Failed States. The country is deteriorating.... There is sometimes a culture of fear that holds us back. I keep telling people that we need to send a clear ...

Spero News, 7/26/2010 Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and a long-time advocate for human rights around the world, delivered a major speech on the House floor urging the Obama Administration to "find its voice" on human rights. During the Bush Adm...

By Jackson Diehl, Washington Post, Monday, May 31, 2010 What sort of international order does Barack Obama seek? Last week he gave a detailed answer: "One that can resolve the challenges of our times -- countering violent extremism and insurgency; stopping the spread of nuclear weapons ...

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 BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY 12, 2010 - Foreign Policy In mid-March, right after his tumultuous visit to Israel, Joe Biden enjoyed a much more tranquil day in Amman. While there, he met with leading activists and civil society groups. The next day, the government-affiliated Jordan Times printed a sne...

By Joseph Abrams - FOXNews.com - 4/21/10 Seventeen members of Congress are pressing the State Department to act on the "grim reality" faced by Coptic Christian women in Egypt, who frequently are coerced into violent forced marriages that leave them victim to rape and captive slavery. Th...

March 31, 2010 - Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-02) and Emanuel Cleaver II (MO-05), Co-chairs of the International Religious Freedom Caucus, along with 16 other members of the U.S. House of Representatives, sent the following letter to President Obama. This letter calls on the President to make the a...

1/21/10 (CNSNews.com) – One year after President Obama took office, the administration’s top international religious freedom post remains empty, at a time when a wave of religious persecution is troubling veteran campaigners. “President Obama has not yet named an ambassador-at-l...

Following is the text of a letter from Democratic and Republican members of the U.S. House and Senate to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday, 1/20/2010. We write today to express our grave concern regarding numerous reports that have emerged of six Coptic Christians and one Muslim securit...

(AFP) – 1/14/2010 CAIRO — A Christmas Eve attack in southern Egypt in which six Coptic Christians were killed reveals an "atmosphere of intolerance," US Assistant Secretary for Human Rights Michael Posner said on Thursday. The United States is "very concerned about t...

كتب وائل على وفتحية الدخاخنى ونفيسة الصباغ وعلا عبدالله 17/ 12/ 2009 مارجريت سكوبى أعلن مكتب مفوضية الأمم المتحدة لحقوق الإنسان أن نحو 37 منظمة مصرية ودولية قدمت تقارير إلى المجلس الدولى لحقوق الإنسان حول أوضاع حقوق الإنسان فى مصر، وعمليات التعذيب التى يتعرض لها، خاصة فى أماكن الاحتجاز، لاستع...

By Joshua Kurlantzick - Washington Post Sunday, December 13, 2009 In accepting his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Thursday, President Obama talked about the quiet dignity of human rights reformers such as Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, the bravery of Zimbabwean voters who "cast their ballots in th...

By Ken Dilanian, USA TODAY, 10/29/09 WASHINGTON — More than $180 million in U.S. foreign aid to promote democracy in Egypt over the past four years has produced few measurable results, in part because the Egyptian government has stymied the effort, a newly released government audit says. T...

NPR, 10/22/09 Dalia Mogahed, a Muslim, is one of 25 people President Obama tapped to advise him on faith issues. She may have met the president exactly once, but to Muslims, she\'s a celebrity — thanks to the headscarf, or hijab, she wears every day. When Obama spoke to the Muslim world from...

By Andrew Gilligan and Alex Spillius in Washington, The Telegraph Published: 8:00PM BST 08 Oct 2009 Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was "oversimplified" and the majority of women around the ...

تصاعد الاحداث بواسطة فخامة السيناتور فرانك وولف لولاية قيرجينيا 22سبتمبر 2009 قصة حقيقية عن المسيحيين الأقباط في مصر تم أرسل هذا البريد الالكتروني إلي مكاتب السيد وولف ، السيدة المتحدثة باسم الكونجرس و السفارة المصرية في واشنطن للتوزيع : "مصر بها اكبر و أقدم مجتمع مسيحي في الشرق الاوسط وتح...

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Extensions of Remarks HON. FRANK R. WOLF of Virginia Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Administration Once Again Sidelines Human Rights Mr. WOLF. Madam Speaker, I again rise to express my deep disappointment with the Obama administration’s sidelining of human rights in U.S. foreign policy....

LA County Foreign Policy Examiner, 7/11/09 Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), co-chairman of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, yesterday expressed concern over the Obama administration’s failure to date to champion human rights as a central part of American foreign policy. Below is th...

By Jeff Jacoby Boston Globe Columnist / June 24, 2009 THE CHOICE presented by the democracy protests in Iran could hardly have been clearer. On one side: a brutal theocratic regime that jails and tortures its critics at home and is a deadly sponsor of terrorism abroad; that loudly proclaims its ...

Wall Street Journal, 6/6/09 A pleasant surprise in President Obama's Thursday speech on the Middle East was his rhetorical shift on democracy. His audience at Cairo University applauded his commitment "to governments that reflect the will of the people" and "freedom to live as y...

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New York Times, 6/3/09 During a telephone interview Tuesday with President Obama about his speech to Arabs and Muslims in Cairo on Thursday, I got to tell the president my favorite Middle East joke. It gave him a good laugh. It goes like this: There is this very pious Jew named Goldberg who...

May 7, 2009 - Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-02), a member of the Executive Committee on the Congressional Human Rights Commission, gave the following statement regarding today's hearing on Human Rights in Egypt.   Congressman Franks stated:   The United States and Egypt have enjoyed a s...

5/5/09, The Washington Post - Article by Glen Kessler and Michael Shear The Obama administration has backed away from overt expressions of support for human rights and democracy in favor of a more subtle approach, worrying advocates who say that the issues are being given short shrift as Presiden...

Please join the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission for a hearing on the current human rights and political situation in Egypt. The State Department’s 2008 Human Rights Report states that the Egyptian government’s “human rights record remained poor and serious abuses continued in ...

Saturday, March 14, 2009; Page A14 Washington Post IT IS SOMETIMES supposed that the Bush administration's push for democracy in the Middle East was invented in Washington and imposed, sometimes with force, on a resistant or indifferent region. In fact, the groundswell for democratic change in Arab...

By David Gollust Washington, VOA NEWS, 10 March 2009   The U.S. State Department has rejected as unfair and inaccurate newspaper editorial criticism that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton downplayed human rights issues on her first two trips abroad. Clinton is to meet Chinese Foreign ...

Tue, 03/03/2009 - 11:32am, Foreign Policy Magazine While his father hosted U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Sharm el-Sheikh resort on the tip of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula earlier this week, Gamal Mubarak quietly slipped into Washington for a "private visit," multiple so...

By FOUAD AJAMI, Wall Street Journal, Jan 28 2009 "To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect," President Barack Obama said in his inaugural. But in truth, the new way forward is a return to realpolitik and business as usual in Americ...

When president Obama announced his choice of nomination for Secretary of State in his administration, his fierce rival Mrs. Hilary Clinton, people said that this would be even more for her to have the same run against him next time. There is an old saying to “keep your friends close but you...

WASHINGTON, New York Times 1/29/2009 — Here is one thing on which democracy experts agree: When Barack Obama took the oath of office last Tuesday, he did more in one instant, as a minority candidate, to promote the American ideal of democracy to the outside world than any of his predecess...

عندما أعلن باراك أوباما عن اختياره لمنافسته الشرسة هيلاري كلينتون كي تكون وزيرة للخارجية في إدارته الجديدة، قال الناس إنه يؤمن نفسه منها حتي لاترشح نفسها ضده مرة أخري.. علي طريقة «اجعل أصدقاءك قريبين وأعداءك أكثر قربا» لكن كانت هيلاري أكثر ذكاء وبراعة من أن تترك مثل هذا المنصب يفلت من بي...

By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah | Chicago Tribune January 25, 2009 Intent on improving the U.S. image abroad, President Barack Obama offered an olive branch to the Muslim world in his inauguration speech Tuesday, saying, "We seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect.&quo...

WASHINGTON (AP) 1/14/2009 — President-elect Barack Obama should put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign, domestic and security policy to undo "the enormous damage" of the Bush years, a leading research and advocacy group said Wednesday in its survey of conditions in more than ...

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مئات الآلاف من قوات مكافحة الشغب تنتشر في المدن الأميركية بوش يلغي الانتخابات ويفرض حالة الطوارئ ويقرر تمديد ولايته نبيل شرف الدين -ايلاف: علمت "إيلاف" من مصدر أميركي مطلع أن مجلسي الشيوخ والنواب الأميركيين قد اجتمعا على نحو عاجل في وقت سابق، وقررا تعليق إعلان نتائج الانتخابات الأم...

On Nov. 4th, 2008, the American people spoke loud and clear: they wanted human rights and civil liberties to remain at the top of the agenda when it comes to US foreign policy. Prior to the end of the 110th US Congressional session, Resolution 1303 – which calls on the Egyptian government ...

The world watched with fascination the closing of the American elections, when Senator Barrack Obama was elected to be the 44th president of the United States. As I watched, I was thankful to be living in this great country, but at the same time, it was inevitable not to draw comparisons between the...

The victory of Barak Obama has elicited cautious optimism in the Arab world, as comments posted by readers on the websites of major Arab news websites have shown. On the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya website, Abu Khaled wrote: “Whether it is Obama or McCain, the US foreign policy is formulate...

A conversation about the forthcoming U.S. presidential election with Dr. Walid Phares By W. Thomas Smith Jr. With less than two-and-a-half weeks remaining before Americans go to the polls, the question remains: For whom will America’s citizens of Middle-Eastern origins cast their votes...

October 17, 2008: Pew Research Center Oct. 27 marks the 10th anniversary of the signing of the International Religious Freedom Act, a law that made the promotion of religious freedom a basic aim of U.S. foreign policy. The passage of the legislation marked the culmination of a campaign of unlikel...

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الكونجرس الأمريكي واشنطن 1أكتوبر 2008 السيد الرئيس نكتب إليكم اليوم لنعبر عن اهتمامنا بحالة زعيم المعارضة السابق أيمن عبد العزيز نور،والذي يقضي الآن فترة حبسه بسجن مزرعة طرة بالقاهرة . لقد تدهورت حالة السيد نور الصحية بشدة منذ أن تم حبسه .فبالاضافة الي مرضه بالقلب والسكر ، تمت اصابته مؤخ...

بيان السفارة تمر مصر بعملية اصلاح سياسي شامل تهدف الى زيادة مساحة المشاركة السياسية والتأكيد على حرية التعبير بكل صورها والارتقاء بحقوق الإنسان و تدعيم وتقوية حقوق المرأة ومنظمات المجتمع المدني من أجل المشاركة الكلية و الفعلية في الحياة العامة . تعمل الحكومة المصرية جاهدة من أجل تحقيق هذه الاهدا...

Embassy statement (ES): Egypt has been undergoing a process of reform aimed at broadening political participation, ensuring freedom of expression in all its forms, upholding human rights and empowering and enabling women and the civil society organizations to participate fully and effectively in pub...

مبروك لمصر مشروع قرار ١٣٠٣ لعضو الكونجرس ولف، الذي يدين انتهاكات حقوق الانسان في مصر، اصبح الآن حقيقة واقيعة بسبب المجهود الكبير الذى بذلتموه وألاف الخطابات التي ارسلتموها الى ممثليكم فى الكونجرس، أصبح القرار ١٣٠٣ لديه ما يكفي من مؤيديين وهو في...

CONGRATULATIONS EGYPT!!! Congressman Wolf’s Resolution 1303, condemning human rights violations in Egypt, is now a reality in the US Congress. Because of your efforts and the thousands of letters you sent to your Congressman, Resolution 1303 has enough co-sponsors and is now on its way to...

تبسم ذكريا 7 / 24 / 2008 وشنطن روترز قام الرئيس بوش يوم الخميس بحس من سيخلفه بأستكمال الأهتمام بحقوق الأنسان والرفع من شأن الديمقراطية والتوسع في حرية التجارة العالمية ، من خلال ما أطلق عليه "اجندة الحريات". قبل ان تنتهي الستة اشهر المتبقية على رئاسة بوش ، يخرج لنا بخطبة مشيرا ...

By Tabassum Zakaria - 7/24/2008 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Thursday urged his successor to carry on what he called his "freedom agenda" of promoting human rights, democracy, and free trade around the world. Bush, with six months left in office, peppered a speech...