{"id":46417,"date":"2022-02-04T08:42:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T07:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dignity.dk\/?p=46417"},"modified":"2022-11-30T11:42:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T10:42:38","slug":"joint-statement-participation-of-un-secretary-general-in-youth-forum-provided-cover-for-el-sisi-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dignity.dk\/en\/news\/joint-statement-participation-of-un-secretary-general-in-youth-forum-provided-cover-for-el-sisi-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint statement: Participation of UN Secretary-General in Youth Forum provided cover for el-Sisi regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-46417\" class=\"panel-layout\">\n<div id=\"pg-46417-0\" class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\">\n<div id=\"pgc-46417-0-0\" class=\"panel-grid-cell\" data-weight=\"1\">\n<div id=\"panel-46417-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" data-style=\"{&quot;background_image_attachment&quot;:false,&quot;background_display&quot;:&quot;tile&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n<p><strong>Egypt\u2019s World Youth Forum, held on 10-13 January 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh \u201cunder the patronage of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi&#8221;, stands in stark contrast with the Egyptian authorities\u2019 years of rampant human rights violations. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ostensibly convened as a \u201cchance for youth to engage with top policymakers, network with promising youth from the region and the world that are determined to make our world a better place for everyone,\u201d the Forum is better understood as a grim reminder of the el-Sisi government\u2019s abuses of power, particularly against youth.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Secretary-General, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, provided opening remarks for the Forum. The undersigned organizations express alarm not only at the Secretary-General lending the stature of his office to the Egyptian authorities, but also his failure to address the realities faced by Egyptian youth.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time as the Secretary-General called for the world\u2019s youth to \u201ckeep speaking out,\u201d thousands of Egyptian youth languished in detention\u2014many of whom are subject to prolonged pretrial detention, violations of due process, and blatant judicial neglect\u2014for doing exactly that, speaking out to build a better future for their country.<\/p>\n<p>In the last two years, the Justice Watch project documented nearly one thousand violations against young people in detention centres and prisons in Egypt, including enforced disappearance, torture, and arbitrary detention.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2021, 32 UN Member States condemned Egypt in the Human Rights Council, specifically deploring the restrictions on freedom of expression and the right to peaceful assembly, the constrained space for civil society and political opposition, and the use of counterterrorism laws to punish peaceful critics.<\/p>\n<p>Far from meaningfully improving the lives of Egypt\u2019s young people, and even less intended to address the actual issues they face, the Forum rather highlights Egypt\u2019s record of human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>The undersigned organizations urge the international community, including the United Nations Secretariat and the good offices of the Secretary-General, to refrain from facilitating or retreating to complicity in Egypt\u2019s human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>The international community should instead take all possible measures to ensure monitoring and accountability of abuses to ensure Egyptians\u2019, and especially Egyptian youth\u2019s, human rights are respected, protected and fulfilled.<\/p>\n<h3>Signatories:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>DIGNITY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Committee for Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>EuroMed Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LGBT+ Danmark<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>EgyptWide for Human Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Egyptian Human Rights Forum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kvinfo<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt\u2019s World Youth Forum, held on 10-13 January 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh \u201cunder the patronage of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi&#8221;, stands in stark contrast with the Egyptian authorities\u2019 years of rampant human rights violations. Ostensibly convened as a \u201cchance for youth to engage with top policymakers, network with promising youth from the region and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Joint statement: Participation of UN Secretary-General in Youth Forum provided cover for el-Sisi regime - DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dignity.dk\/en\/news\/joint-statement-participation-of-un-secretary-general-in-youth-forum-provided-cover-for-el-sisi-regime\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Joint statement: Participation of UN Secretary-General in Youth Forum provided cover for el-Sisi regime - DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Egypt\u2019s World Youth Forum, held on 10-13 January 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh \u201cunder the patronage of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi&#8221;, stands in stark contrast with the Egyptian authorities\u2019 years of rampant human rights violations. 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