Name of the Book :Human Rights of Women Between International Recognition and Reservations of Arab States
Editor/ Habiba el-Hamadoni - Hafiza Shukair
Publisher/ Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies
Topic/First, the book contains an introduction to human rights reports and statistics on the forms of discrimination against women, then it icludes three sections; Part I contains the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women with a view to the main points contained in the Convention, Part II ratification or accession to the Convention and contains position of the Arab countries towards the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against women, and also the position of the Optional Protocol to the Convention, Part III is entitled 'Reservations' and includes an overview of the reservations made by Arab countries, an analytical view of reservations, and how to work for lifting these reservations.
How to get it: the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies
Address:2, 9 Rostom Street, Cairo
Telephone: 7951112 00202
Fax: 7921913 00202
E-mail: info@cihrs.org
Website: http://www.cihrs.org
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Name of the Book :Striking: The Denied Legal Right
Preparation / Legal Research Unit- Center for Human Rights Legal Aid
Publisher / Center for Human Rights Legal Aid
Topic/ The book is a study aiming at condemning the Egyptian Legislator method of prohibiting striking and considering it a punishable act in the penal code, the Syndicates' code and the Labor code, in violation to all international covenants of human rights, the study is divided into three sections, the first one entitled "Basic Information for The Right To Strike", the second section entitled "The Right To Strike Between International Covenants and National Legislation", the third is entitled "Legitimacy of Striking In Egypt"
How to get it: Center for Human Rights Legal Aid
Address:2, Ma'arouf Street- Talaat Harb- Downtown- Egypt- 4th floor
Telephone: 0225778688
E-mail: ahrla_99@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.ahrla.org
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Name of the Book :Political Parties In Egypt
Preparation / Egyptian Organization for Human Rights
Publisher / Egyptian Organization for Human Rights
Topic/ The book speaks of the political parties in Egypt and the Sustainable Development after more than 30 years since the adoption of the multiparty system, their success in achieving their objectives, and the idea of the the non-changing party leaders for many years which leads to the rigidity of ideas, Mr. Hafez Abu Sa'ada Secretary-General of the Organization talks about the political parties in Egypt between restriction and confiscation, the book also discusses the law on political parties (to amend or repeal the cancellation)? it discusses the constitutionality of the law of parties, and presents the possibility of putting up a new law on political parties.
How to get it: The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights Information
Address: 8-10 Mat'haf el- Manyal Street - Manyal el-Rawda - Cairo
Tel. and Fax: 3621613
E-mail: eohr@eohr.org
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Name of the Book :Prohibition Of Torture And Ill Treatment In The African Human Rights System
Prepared by: Shidi adinklo- France Vilgwan
Publisher:The International Organization Against Torture.
Subject of the book: this book provides a simplified presentation of the African human rights system as well as a critical analysis of the role played by the basic institutions affiliated to the Organization of African Unity and the African Union. The book also includes a study of the work conducted by these institutions in the field of human rights since the establishment of the Organization of African Unity in 1963. The book also considers various topics listed in the framework of the African human rights including Women's Rights and Children's Rights, as well as the nature of democracy and the right to development.
How to get the book: OMCT International Secretariat
Address: PO Box 21
8, rue du Vieux-Billard
CH-1211 Geneva 8
Switzerland
Tel: + 41 22 809 4939
Fax: + 41 22 809 4929
E-mail: omct@omct.org
Website: http://omct.org
OMCT Europe
Rue du Marteau 19
B-1000 Bruxelles – Belgique
Tel/Fax : +32 2 218 37 19
e-mail : omcteurope@omct.org
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Name of the Book :International Principles and Standards
Prepared by: Gamal Barkat and Reda Abdel Aziz
Publisher:The Egyptian Association for Training and Human Rights
Subject of the book: The book addresses the international standards for monitoring elections and is divided into five chapters: the first chapter deals with the international rules and standards for monitoring elections; the second chapter discusses the international monitoring of elections; the third deals with the particular rules governing the behavior of the local and international monitors; the fourth chapter focuses on international standards for elections monitoring and supervision; and the last chapter looks at the different stages of the electoral process.
How to get the book: The Egyptian Association for Training and Human Rights
Address: Faisal St-55 –Al Nadi al-Riyadhi St (Doctors Tower)- 7th floor- Flat 9-Giza-Egypt
Postal code:12111
Tel/ Fax: (+202)7765257-Mobile: +(2) 0109666914
Email: Eathr.egypt@yahoo.com
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Name of the Book :Vision of what happened on the 6th of April
Prepared by: Elhami El-Marghani
Publisher:Hisham Mubarak Law Center
Subject of the book: the book provides a vision of the strike of April 6th, 2008 and the role of Facebook activists in organizing it. The work also offers an answer to the questions surrounding who carried out the acts of sabotage in el-Mahala by monitoring and recording the attitudes of various political parties and powerful groups concerning the call for a general strike by Facebook activists. It also observes the experience of the strike in different provinces of the Republic.
The book further includes supplementary data explaining the sequence of events in el-Mahala, and a special supplement with pictures from el-Mahala and Cairo in April 2008.
How to get the book: Hisham Mubarak Law Center
1 Souk Al-Tawfiqiya St. - 5th floor
Phone: +20225758908
Email: hmlc@link.net
Web site: http://hmlc.katib.org
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Name of the Book :Freedom of Expression and Opinion in Egypt…Present Reality and Future Horizons
Prepared by: The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights
Publisher: The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights
Subject of the book: The book is comprised of various papers, deliberations and discussions from a symposium on freedom of opinion and expression held Wednesday 28 May 2008 by the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights. Included among the papers from the symposium are several composed by the General Secretary of the EOHR on the laws that stifle the freedom of opinion and expression in Egypt. Another paper by Nijad al-Borai comments on the Egyptian legal structure and its relation to freedom of expression. The book also includes a paper on freedom of expression and opinion in various countries, and the lessons to be learned from them in Egypt, and another work evaluating Egypt's system of the legislative reform particularly as it concerns freedom of expression.
How to get the book: The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights
Address: 8-10 al-Manial Museum St. – Manial al-Rawdah- Cairo
Tel. and Fax: 3621613
Email: eohr@eohr.org
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Name of the Book :Libel and the Freedom of Expression
Prepared by: Lawyer Hamdy al-Assiouti
Publisher:the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
Subject of the book: the book is a demonstration of the libel crimes; how they occur, the necessary conditions for the threads of the crime to come together and the different media it usually happens through.
It has a new section or medium that libel could be done through: the internet. It also deals with some of the main rulings in these crimes and how these rulings asserted that freedom of opinion and expression has priority over other values no matter how transgressively or excessively it is used.
How to get the book:the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
Address/19 - 26th of July St-Downtown-Cairo-Fourth floor-Flat 55
Tel/Fax: 27736177
Website: http://anhri.net
Email: info@anhri.net
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Name of the Book :Rights, Duties and Tools of the Monitor
Prepared by: Mohammed Ibrahim Bassiouni
Subject of the book: This book deals with the principles and rules of the scientific monitoring of elections using modern methods according to the program for training elections monitors. The program is run by the Egyptian Association for Training and Human Rights, which depends on teaching the election monitors the basic rules and international principles of elections monitoring. In addition to the right rules to observe and record election violations it teaches how to monitor campaigns, polls, and canvass of votes as well as result declarations. The program aims at qualifying individuals to monitor elections, with knowledge of all the principles and rules of the electoral process, to enable voters to practice their free will independently and choose candidates with impartiality.
How to get the book:the Association Society for Training and Human Rights
Address/Faisal street- 55 the sports club street(doctors tower)-7th floor-apartment No 9-Giza-Egypt
Mailbox:12111
Phone /fax:(+202)7765257- Mobile: +(2) 0109666914
Email: Eathr.egypt@yahoo.com
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Name of the Book :Documents Issued by Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network
Prepared by: Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network
Subject of the book: The book deals with the documents issued by the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network clarifying non-governmental organizations stances under the Palestinian-Israeli Declaration of Principles agreement and the structure of Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network along with a suggested framework defining the relationship between Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network and the Palestinian authority. And last it defines the situation of the Palestinian National Authority, the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network and the Union of Charitable Societies concerning the World Bank's decision to establish a fund for financing the activities of NGOs.
How to get the book:the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network
Tel:97292(2)819808-972(050)315448
Fax: 972(2)823164 (
Website: http://www.pngo.net/arabic
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