NCHR Holds Monthly Meeting and Decides to Prepare an Evaluation Report on the National Human Rights Strategy

The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) held its regular meeting on Wednesday, July 8th, chaired by Dr. Ahmed Ihab Gamaleldin, President of NCHR, and attended by Mr. Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat, NCHR's Vice President.

During the meeting, NCHR reviewed issues and challenges pertaining to human rights and fundamental freedoms in Egypt that had been monitored throughout June 2026. Council members engaged in extensive discussions on the most appropriate approaches for positively addressing these issues and challenges within the framework of NCHR’s constitutional and legal mandate and in accordance with the international standards governing the work of national human rights institutions.

NCHR also discussed approaches to addressing challenges related to asylum, migration, and human trafficking, and to exercising its role in these areas in accordance with its mandate, while promoting complementarity between NCHR’s role and that of other relevant national mechanisms.

The meeting further reviewed ways to strengthen NCHR’s presence and participation, both in person and virtually, as well as its substantive contributions to international and regional human rights forums, treaty bodies, Special Procedures mandate holders and working groups of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. NCHR also discussed its efforts to follow up on recommendations received by Egypt through the Universal Periodic Review, treaty bodies, and Special Procedures mechanisms.

NCHR also reviewed the principal activities it had undertaken during the preceding period and discussed ways to build on their outcomes and enhance the effectiveness of its working methods, with a view to fully exercising all aspects of its mandate.

Furthermore, during its monthly meeting NCHR formed a working group tasked with preparing a comprehensive report to analyse and evaluate Egypt’s first National Human Rights Strategy, launched by the Government in September 2021, in view of the approaching conclusion of its implementation period by the end of this year and the ongoing preparations for the launch of the second National Human Rights Strategy.

The report will provide an objective and independent assessment of the implementation of the first Strategy, examine the results achieved and the challenges encountered, and identify lessons learned. It will also put forward specific recommendations aimed at contributing to the development of the second Strategy and strengthening its methodology, effectiveness, and capacity for monitoring and evaluation.