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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 42, April 2022
Vol.1, Issue 42, April 2022

ELITE at NCHR’s Seminar With Mr. Eamon Gilmore

Hania Bahaa,- Reem Omran, - Zeina Marie
Level 3 -Major Economicas
FEPS has always been keen to provide its students with Dr. Mosheera also emphasized that there’s no such
unique experiences, and so, under the supervision of Dr. thing as “impossible” and that miracles do in fact
Hanan Hassan, Vice Dean for Education & Students' exist, just like the ones she had witnessed in her field;
Affairs for Education & Students' Affairs, a group of FEPS A couple of years ago, it would’ve been “impossible”
students and Elite’s editor were given the chance to attend to reach where we are in terms of human rights
a seminar at the National Human Rights Council of Egypt, improvements and achievements.
that took place on the 13th of April. The visit was The floor was given to Mr. Eamon, who expressed
organized by Dr. Nevine Mosaad, who besides being an how happy he was to be in Egypt and hold this
esteemed Political Science professor at FEPS, is also the seminar, and his speech went on to be extensive and
president of the cultural committee in the council.
The seminar was titled “The Human Rights in the 21st extremely informative. Mr. Eamon first started
century from a European Perspective”, and it was articulating how necessary human rights are, by
highlighted by the presence of the guest speaker Mr. describing them as part of the DNA of the European
Eamon Gilmore, who serves as the European Union’s Union; Despite that, implementing them is by far one
special representative for human rights. The discussion of the greatest challenges there is. He highlighted his
panel also included Dr. Mosheera Khattab, the president of mission in The European Union as working on
the NCHR, H.E. Mr. Mahmoud Karem, vice president of promoting human rights in every country in the world.
NCHR, and Ambassador Christian Berger, the head of the Moreover, Mr. Gilmore also thoroughly presented the
EU’s Delegation to Egypt. 5 main pillars of work in his area, and they were as
First off, Dr. Mosheera gave the opening speech, where she follows:
welcomed Mr. Eamon Gilmore, Ambassador Christian, and 1. Protecting and empowering people
all the esteemed attendees, before headlining how 2. Building democratic resilience
important cooperation, between the EU and Egypt, is. She 3. Support and defend humanitarian institutions, like
then proceeded to stress the importance of human rights in the UN
the Egyptian agenda, and highlight the astonishing 4. Developing and implementing new human rights
accomplishments in the field, which included; agenda that puts areas like the private sector,
Criminalizing Female Genital Mutation, sexual technological advancements, and laws into
harassment, and most recently under the authorization of consideration
the President Abdelfattah El Sisi, criminalizing child
marriage 5. Working in partnership
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