Egypt

Human Rights
Civil liberties in scale of 1-7, whit 1 representing the highest level of freedom and
7 representing the lowest level of freedom scored 6.
Unfree press
Egypt is placed in 143rd out of 167 nations on press freedoms
Human Rights Watch also indicates issues of concern. For example they discuss
how the law does not recognize conversion from Islam to other religions
Homosexuality is not technically illegal in Egypt, but is considered taboo. Until
recently, the government denied that homosexuality existed in Egypt, but recently
official crackdowns have occurred for reasons felt to include the desire to appease
Islamic clerics, to distract from economic issues, or as a cover-up for closet
homosexuals in high places.
In the months following the ouster of President Morsy, police used excessive lethal
force, killing scores of protesters, and arrested many Brotherhood supporters.
Prosecutors failed to investigate security forces for the killing of the hundreds of
protesters, yet were quick to refer protesters to trial on violence-related charges.
The police arrested protesters outside the presidential palace and elsewhere and
illegally held hundreds, including children, in Central Security Forces camps where
they subjected dozens to torture, including sexual abuse. There is no law
criminalizing domestic violence specifically. Other forms of violence against
women, including child marriage and female genital mutilation continued to take

 Mubarak president since 1981 until 2011 devio

de dinero pblico
Hosni Mubarak, expresidente de Egipto, comparecer
hoy aqu ante un tribunal por una causa de corrupcin
de la cual puede ser liberado por los jueces, pero
seguir en prisin por exterminio de manifestantes.
Mubarak, obligado a renunciar por una rebelin en
2011 durante la llamada Primavera rabe, afronta
ahora una cuarta causa pendiente tras salvar otras
tres: dos por corrupcin y una por muerte de
manifestantes, segn voceros judiciales.
Los jueces determinaron la libertad condicional por
cada una de ellas, pero decidieron mantenerlo en
prisin por otro caso de corrupcin que ser sobre el
cual debatir este mircoles el tribunal.
acusado con sus dos hijos
venta de gas a ISraek

El 23 de noviembre estallaron protestas en Egipto, que

siguieron hasta diciembre, como respuesta contra la nueva
ley que concentraba nuevos poderes en la figura del
presidente, contemplando amplios poderes de supervisin e
inmunidad legal para su persona.15

El decreto fue considerado por sus opositores como

dictatorial y estallaron protestas masivas en muchas
ciudades Egipto

Healthcare System

Managed, financed, and provided

by agencies in all three sectors of the
economy:

Government:
- receives funding from the Ministry of Finance (MOF).
- universal coverage of
basic health services for all of its citizens

Parastatal
Quasi-governmental organizations :
- Health Insurance Organization
(HIO)
- Curative Care Organization (CCO)
- Teaching Hospitals and Institutes
Organization (THO).

Private
Covers everything from traditionalmidwives, private pharmacies, private doctors,
and private hospitals of all sizes.

The Curative Care Organizations

(CCO)
is a nonprofit system
operates 11 hospitals, which are
high-quality institutions.
provides a full range of quality
curative care services and
programs.

Private Voluntary Organizations

Provide care through polyclinics and small hospitals that are usually
affiliated with charitable or religious organizations.

Health Insurance
Organization (HIO)

Providers

For all employees working in

the government sector, some
public and private sector
employees, pensioners, and
widows.

Organization of the Ministry of Health and

Population
1. Administrative structure: planning,
supervision and program management.
2.

Service delivery structure:

- geographic (rural and urban)

- structural (health units, health centers, and
hospitals)
- functional (maternal child health centers)