Sixth Forum on Minoritie s The minoritie s in Egypt, an incomple te citize nship and gove rnme ntal inaction in inte rve ning Geneva - 26 November 2013 The Egyptian society suffers from the reluctance of the government to put legislations in place which works to criminalize discrimination and in some cases the government contributes in the consecration of the culture of discrimination through compensation, which is dispensed to victims of crimes of sectarian violence, since it works to compensate the Muslim side at the expense of the Christian side, so that the society appears as if it is two-sided. The government is trying very much to amend the situation, but daily practices reveal the deceitfulness of the government and its inaction to protect the principle of citizenship and human rights, and it contributes to the spread of the culture of hatred at the expense of pluralism and the acceptance of the other. In many situations Christian citizens are accused of charges of contempt of the Islamic religion just by exchanging pictures and comments on Facebook pages, while the prosecution of those who are openly in contempt of the Christian religion is ignored. Christians in Egypt are a numerical minority and they suffer from the absence of justice and the failure to punish the culprits of the crimes in which churches and properties of Christians were attacked. Since the seventies of the last century, nobody has been tried for these crimes. Despite the enormity of the bombing of the Church of Saints and the martyrdom of 24 Christians in January 2011, as well as the massacre of Maspero in October 2011 and the martyrdom of 27 Christians for demonstrating peacefully, and the crime of Al-Warraq, targeting Christians while they were participating in a church wedding and the death of five, nobody has been tried. Christians in Egypt face the inaction of the government in regards to operations of collective punishment, behind which stands a call to violence and extremism. The Egyptian Center is collaborating with the Ministry of Education to put a curriculum on human rights in schools, and we have come a long way in this matter with the Ministry. The Egyptian Center for Human