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We regularly raise the importance of human rights, including women’s, with the Egyptian
government at both ministerial and official levels, and our Embassy in Cairo continues
to monitor alleged cases of sexual and gender-based violence. In 2014 the UK sponsored
a delegation of Egyptian Ministry of Justice officials to meet UK counterparts and
discuss issues of gender-based violence. These discussions helped inform drafting
of the new Egyptian law passed under interim President Adly Mansour, which criminalised
sexual harassment in Egypt for the first time. At the UN’s Universal Periodic Review
of Egypt’s human rights situation on 5 November 2014 the UK made recommendations focussing
on the ability of civil society to operate freely and the protection of women’s rights,
which were accepted by Egypt. We continue to discuss the issue of gender-based violence
with the Government of Egypt and are seeking practical ways that we can work together
in this area.
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