Egyptian Association for the Assistance of Juveniles and Human Rights(EAAJHR)

National Network
Egypt
Address

16 Abdel Moteleb El Sanadily St.-El Mesaha station –Fesal-El Giza
Giza
Egypt

Telephone
0020237833342
Fax
0020237833345
E-Mail
info@eaajhr.org
E-Mail (2)
eaajhr2009@hotmail.com
E-Mail (3)
eaajhr2009@gmail.com
E-Mail (4)
arabab@yahoo.com
Mobile Phone
0020127173214
Mobile Phone (other)
0020106493171
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2008
Fields of Activity
  1. Human rights
General Information
The Egyptian association for the assistance of juveniles and human rights is a non-profit NGO defamatory number 3210 of 2008 was established by a group of lawyers and human rights defenders. and those interested in children's issues and women in particular and issues of society in general its aim is to provide legal aid for juveniles and women, also supporting and developing the democracy awareness to citizens and deepen the knowledge of the role of the parliaments and ensuring the individuals freedom and equality among them trough spreading democratized concepts and ideas and its reference in constitution and Egyptian laws and international agreements. The associations adopts the policy of defending juveniles and women in all aspects and needs especially lawful ones, survey the children exposed to risk and reasons leading to this situation and take action to remove these reasons monitoring and documentation of violence against women and help them confront these crises through providing legal support and advice, psychological and social through experts working in the association, also the association mind the extreme importance to confront the violence committed against juveniles of depriving them from their rights and freedoms and detain with adults.
Mission and Objectives

1-Protects of minors and women rights inside and improve Egypt’s image aboard. 2- Offering aftercare to the juveniles for the purpose of rehabilitation after his release to re-integration into the society. 3-Cooperation with all the governmental bodies and national councils and NGOS existed in Egypt and Arab world in the field of human rights in general and juveniles and women rights in particular to create a better tomorrow . 4-Putting a plan of action for the definition of the rights of juveniles and women and the most related laws and international agreements. 5-Work on the application and activation of international agreements and treaties on human rights in general and rights of juveniles and women in particular. 6-Receive complaints from citizens and offering legal support to juveniles and women, monitoring and documenting violations in any site in Egypt. 7-Prepare studies and researches in order to spread the awareness of the culture of human rights and the rights of juveniles and women with coordination with international institutions concerned with human rights. 8-Study of laws and legislations concerning juveniles and their application and discuss their compatibility with modern penal philosophies and link the process being made in the field of physiology and sociology and criminology, punishment and access to provide better care for the juvenile. 9-Working in promote the role of the level of care and penal institutions for juveniles and women and activating the role of these penal intuitions in the reform and rehabilitation. 10-Preparing aftercare programs for juveniles to help them to return to community and provide suitable employment opportunities 11- Studying places of detention and the existing care homes, monitoring and documenting the existed violations and work on facing these violations in accordance with law and international documents for human rights. 12-Work to activating the role of social workers and physiologists within care homes and provide better access to rehabilitation services for the juvenile will help reformulating of his personality and his return to society as a good citizen and an active member. 13-Work on changing media's point of view towards juvenile's issues, including reinforcing their rights and make them able to integrate into society. 1- Adopting several juveniles issues and defend them free of charge and offering legal support and advice. 2- Holding a seminar on the new law of the child and child rights in collaboration with the Arabic organizations for penal reform and the Human rights Association for supporting prisoners. 3- The implementation of the lawyer's electronic library in which the distribution of the CD-ROM (CD) was done through including the new law of the child, also the most important international conventions and treaties concerning child rights and what arises from the conventions and treaties of human rights. 4-Suing the minister of the of the interior affairs (as him) forcing him to allocate places for the detention of juveniles separately from adults to implement what comes at the provisions of the human rights convention and Egypt's new law of the child ,and it is the first judicial activate for the new law of child. 5- Implementation of a training course for 25 lawyers to train them in the use of the international conventions related to the issues of juveniles before the national courts. 6-Preparing a training index which is distributed free of charge on the lawyers dealing with juveniles issues for the purpose of culturing them with the international conventions concerning rights of the child and the related issues and how to use the international conventions before the national courts. 7-Holding a seminar on the theme of family disintegration and child rights with collaboration with the association of tiny hearts and the Arab association for penal reform. 8-The association organized a workshop in cooperation with the Egyptian organization for humanitarian relief and rehabilitation on (ways of activating the role of social specialists and workers inside juvenile's care homes ) participated by a group of interested in juveniles issues and children exposed to danger issues ,also a group of social and psychological specialists working in some home cares as well as some NGOS that came out with a series of important recommendations which was put forward and discussed for the activating the role of the social specialists inside home cares to return benefit to the juvenile and reformulation of his personality and present him to society as good person. 9- The association had adopted the activity of extraction the papers of the identity (mechanized birth certifications-ID cards)for juveniles and women inside care homes with a self fund from the board members and with assistance of a group of volunteers working in the association. 10-The association implement the project of providing legal support for juveniles that aims to provide the legal support to juveniles at arrest and during investigation and trial through providing legal support from the lawyers team working in the association ,this project was already been executed with cooperation of the German embassy in Cairo that provided in kind contributions to the working team that was computers and stationeries. 11-The project (our future is in our children's hand) is being implemented in cooperation with the Irish embassy in Cairo that aims to the formation of a lawyer's network with 60 volunteered lawyers from governorates (Red Sea-Aswan) to provide legal support for juveniles in those governorates ,also launching a hotline named as (line of rescue for juveniles)as well as a website to the international information network to receive complains of any violations committed against juveniles in those governorates and delivering it to the lawyer's network to take all the necessary legal proceedings . 12- EAAJHR is a member in the public committee for protecting childhood in Giza Province. It works out some definitive meetings with the public to present the committees' role in identifying the policies of creating better conditions for the child. 13- EAAJHR participated in the international conference to put a guiding law for the child under the auspicious of Jones Hopkins University in the United States. The conference was convened in Palestine Hotel in Alexandria, in October 2010. 14- EAAJHR is a member in the Egyptian Coalition for Supporting Democracy in November 2011. 15- Working out a research on the phenomenon of children exploitation in the electoral process, a sort of forced work in which, it violated the Law 126 (Year 2008) of the new child law and Law 64 (Year 2010) of combating human industry. 16- EAAJHR is preparing now to start working on the activities of the project (Juveniles' justice between reality and desire) in cooperation with the Foundation for the Future in Jordan (FFF) and we will start in June 2011.

Main Projects / Activities

1-Training of lawyers on the use and the application of international conventions relating to juveniles and women such as child rights convention and the convention of eliminating all kinds of discrimination against women. 2-Work on establishing a volunteer lawyer's network nationwide to provide free legal support in juvenile's issues and women issues. 3-Legal participate in offering proposals of projects seeking at the improvement of juveniles and women situations. 1- Preparing researches, studies and organizing scientific and educational seminars and preparing workshops. 2-Supporte the culture of development and rehabilitation of juveniles and facing the phenomenon of juvenile delinquency with the latest scientific methods and technical studies. 3-Create a field study unit within the task of monitoring and documenting violations, and report such violations to be presented, and make proposals and recommendations to address them. 1- Field visits to the families of juveniles and makes them aware of the proper treatment of juveniles, and understands their requirements to reduce the phenomenon of juvenile's delinquency and the family becomes the first line of defense for the juvenile. 2-Touring and following up the care homes and penal institutions and communicate with the stuff of these institutions, and work to increase the awareness of the important and central role for them in reevaluation of the behavior of the juvenile. 1-Awareness juveniles within places of detention from damages of up normal sexual practice and urged them to good behavior. 2-Raising the awareness of juveniles toward the use of first aid in cases of injury, especially cases of poisoning of wounds and wrong injection cases. 3-Raising awareness of the ways of prevention of infection diseases and reduce its spread. 4-Urge the commitment of hygiene measures to prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as scabies. 1- Adopting several juveniles issues and defend them free of charge and offering legal support and advice. 2- Holding a seminar on the new law of the child and child rights in collaboration with the Arabic organizations for penal reform and the Human rights Association for supporting prisoners. 3- The implementation of the lawyer's electronic library in which the distribution of the CD-ROM (CD) was done through including the new law of the child, also the most important international conventions and treaties concerning child rights and what arises from the conventions and treaties of human rights. 4-Suing the minister of the of the interior affairs (as him) forcing him to allocate places for the detention of juveniles separately from adults to implement what comes at the provisions of the human rights convention and Egypt's new law of the child ,and it is the first judicial activate for the new law of child. 5- Implementation of a training course for 25 lawyers to train them in the use of the international conventions related to the issues of juveniles before the national courts. 6-Preparing a training index which is distributed free of charge on the lawyers dealing with juveniles issues for the purpose of culturing them with the international conventions concerning rights of the child and the related issues and how to use the international conventions before the national courts. 7-Holding a seminar on the theme of family disintegration and child rights with collaboration with the association of tiny hearts and the Arab association for penal reform. 8-The association organized a workshop in cooperation with the Egyptian organization for humanitarian relief and rehabilitation on (ways of activating the role of social specialists and workers inside juvenile's care homes ) participated by a group of interested in juveniles issues and children exposed to danger issues ,also a group of social and psychological specialists working in some home cares as well as some NGOS that came out with a series of important recommendations which was put forward and discussed for the activating the role of the social specialists inside home cares to return benefit to the juvenile and reformulation of his personality and present him to society as good person. 9- The association had adopted the activity of extraction the papers of the identity (mechanized birth certifications-ID cards)for juveniles and women inside care homes with a self fund from the board members and with assistance of a group of volunteers working in the association. 10-The association implement the project of providing legal support for juveniles that aims to provide the legal support to juveniles at arrest and during investigation and trial through providing legal support from the lawyers team working in the association ,this project was already been executed with cooperation of the German embassy in Cairo that provided in kind contributions to the working team that was computers and stationeries. 11-The project (our future is in our children's hand) is being implemented in cooperation with the Irish embassy in Cairo that aims to the formation of a lawyer's network with 60 volunteered lawyers from governorates (Red Sea-Aswan) to provide legal support for juveniles in those governorates ,also launching a hotline named as (line of rescue for juveniles)as well as a website to the international information network to receive complains of any violations committed against juveniles in those governorates and delivering it to the lawyer's network to take all the necessary legal proceedings . 12- EAAJHR is a member in the public committee for protecting childhood in Giza Province. It works out some definitive meetings with the public to present the committees' role in identifying the policies of creating better conditions for the child. 13- EAAJHR participated in the international conference to put a guiding law for the child under the auspicious of Jones Hopkins University in the United States. The conference was convened in Palestine Hotel in Alexandria, in October 2010. 14- EAAJHR is a member in the Egyptian Coalition for Supporting Democracy in November 2011. 15- Working out a research on the phenomenon of children exploitation in the electoral process, a sort of forced work in which, it violated the Law 126 (Year 2008) of the new child law and Law 64 (Year 2010) of combating human industry. 16- EAAJHR is preparing now to start working on the activities of the project (Juveniles' justice between reality and desire) in cooperation with the Foundation for the Future in Jordan (FFF) and we will start in June 2011.

Contact (1) Full Name
Mahmoud Sayed El Badawy Mahmoud
Job Title
Chairman of the Board
Head of the organisation
Mahmoud Sayed El Badawy Mahmoud
Contact (2) Full Name
rabab abdo