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11 September 2021 Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egyptian president, declared that wanting to impose on Egypt a protection of human rights, considered valid in other countries, accelerating the times with respect to the needs of economic and social development, is a " dictatorial approach ".

Al-Sisi made the statement speaking at the ceremony for the launch of Egypt's first "National Strategy for Human Rights", which was held in the new administrative capital that is rising east of Cairo. 

The event was attended by many foreigners, including many ambassadors. Al Sisi argued: "Everyone believes they are better than others in terms of intellectual or cultural abilities and wants to impose it on other societies". Speaking to "those who think so", the Egyptian president said: "Please bear in mind that this could be a dictatorial approach. You can apply it and consider it the best for your societies, but not ours," adding: "Why do you want to impose it on us? Why don't you want our societies to follow their natural development process and take their time?" The "Egyptian vision for human rights", to be implemented in the five-year period 2021-2026, "is based on fundamental pillars" including "the close link between democracy and human rights "and the" balance "between" individual rights "and" social "; among others," health services "are" a right ", said al Sisi.

"This is the first National Strategy produced by an autonomous Egyptian philosophy that is based on society," the president stressed. Al Sisi also argued that: "The Egyptian state affirms its commitment to promote and protect the right to physical integrity, personal freedom, exercise of political rights, freedom of expression". He then admitted that the launch of the National Strategy "is nothing more than an initial step of thousands of steps towards a modern democratic state that respects and promotes the human rights of its people".

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in Geneva, Ahmed Gamal el-Din, in presenting the National Strategy, listed as human rights to be protected those to health, education, work, social security, food, drinking water, housing, identity cultural and religious. Women, children, the disabled and the elderly will be particular targets of protection.

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, Nazhat Shameem Khan, in a video message made her "congratulations" to Egypt for the launch of the Strategy, defining it as an "important step towards the promotion and protection of human rights" in the country.