"Fundamentals of Human Rights" Simplified educational booklet by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
Cairo, March 8, 2008
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information released a new booklet titled “Fundamentals of Human Rights“. It is an educational simplified booklet for understanding the basics of human rights and its fundamentals.
The 110 pages booklet is providing a simple image to the Arab audience about the essence, origin and terminology of human rights, that it includes models and examples of some international, Arab and Egyptian human rights organizations working in the field of human rights.
This booklet is trying to answer questions suggested by volunteers and those interested in human rights, and to refute what is commonly rumored about human right organizations and Arab activists such as “funding, western support, domestic privacy vs. universality, corruption, struggle with Arab governments, the relation to religions” and such enquiries or accusations raised by some in bad or well-meaning.
This booklet is the result of cooperation among a number of human rights activists and volunteers in human rights from Egypt and some other Arab countries. The booklet is trying to close aspects of human rights to the audience of non specialists who need to know more about human rights and how to volunteer within. The booklet prepared by:
Nazar Abdelgadir: Director of Geneva Institute for Human Rights,
Mahmoud Kandeel: lawyer and human rights activist,
Sally Sami: human rights activist,
Gamal Eid: lawyer and director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information,
In addition to a number of volunteers from 9 Arab countries.
Copies of this booklet are available in the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information as well as an electronic copy can be downloaded from the website http://gohod.net which is a new initiative by the Arabic Network to support the voluntary efforts exerted to serve the human rights movement & issues in the Arab world.
The address of the Arabic Network: 5, , road 105, El-Horyya Sq, Maadi, Cairo.
Tel: +202 25249544.