{"id":190164,"date":"2025-01-31T13:52:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-un-review-spotlights-key-rights-concerns\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:52:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T11:52:59","slug":"egypt-un-review-spotlights-key-rights-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-un-review-spotlights-key-rights-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: UN Review Spotlights Key Rights Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Geneva \u2014 <em>Meaningful Follow Up Needed to End Repression and Abuses<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/n-africa\/egypt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Egyptian<\/a> government should accept and take urgent action to carry out recommendations made during a United Nations review of its human rights record on January 28, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">A total of 137 countries made over 370 recommendations during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. They addressed key issues from torture and arbitrary detention of human rights defenders&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501310078.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geneva \u2014 Meaningful Follow Up Needed to End Repression and Abuses The Egyptian government should accept and take urgent action to carry out recommendations made during a United Nations review of its human rights record on January 28, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. A total of 137 countries made over 370 recommendations during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":190165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,5987,4697,415,7274,257,6399,5100,254,13646],"class_list":["post-190164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-concerns","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-key","tag-news","tag-review","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spotlights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}