Rights is a member of the special committee to develop curriculums to instill the culture of human rights,
and the curriculum of human rights remains to be transformed into a social culture and political will of the
Government to amend the current situation.
We suggest to the Egyptian government to sign off on the subject of human rights, so that it would not be
only pass or fail, but rather its grades would count towards the final grade in High School, which qualifies
for university education, in order to develop students from a young age to respect the rights and freedoms,
and build a democratic society that believes in the ideas of human rights and works to strengthen them.
Christians in Egypt are suffering from the lack of adequate representation in elected councils. We propose
the adoption of the principle of positive discrimination for a period of not more than ten years to uphold the
values of pluralism and to guarantee the honorable representation of every group of society, and to end the
policy of exclusion and deprivation, from which Christians have suffered over the past years.
Christians face a problem in the personal status [law], especially regarding divorce and marriage and the
government is slacking in putting in place appropriate legislations to resolve this problem. The government
also has failed to set up a mechanism to promote freedom of religious conversion, since it allows the
conversion from Christianity to Islam while it does not accept the opposite, and it also imposes unfair
conditions and whoever tries to take this step would be prosecuted, threatening his life and his personal
safety.
We demand from the government to put in place a constitutional solution and laws regarding the problem
of Egyptian citizenship of the Baha'is in light of them being deprived of obtaining official papers, which
would make it easier for them to obtain birth certificates, the ID card, marriage, divorce and property
contracts.
We demand from the government to respect the rights of Egyptian Shiites to practice their faith in light of
their persecution by extremist groups amid the failure of the state to protect these rights.
We demand from the government to end the acceptance of customary reconciliatory sessions in which
Christians are coerced into [accepting] the outcomes, on the account of the harm they experienced from
crimes and considering the many losses. The state refrains from compensation and puts pressure on the