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Cairo
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Egypt
- Human rights
The Forum for Development and Human Rights Dialogue (FDHRD) is an Egyptian NGO registered with No. 6337. It consists of 11 employees divided between administrative work and its five main programmes. FDHRD works with three main partners; Egyptian Trade Union Federation in Egypt, Chab Dai in Cambodia and The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women in Thailand. FDHRD receives its funding, managed by its board of trustees, from grants and the USAID. FDHRD strives to reach out to all forms of social and cultural backgrounds to educate and develop broader concepts of human rights, civil rights and social cohesion through workshops and legal aid. Furthermore, FDHRD reports on the massive violations of human rights that frequently occur during conflicts, and their implications for the development, safety and protection of local communities. It also seeks to give a voice to the Egyptian diaspora who have been subject to human rights violations.
Our mission is to ensure that development is community-led and that it respects, protects and fulfills human rights. We do so by ensuring that communities and individuals have the information, power and resources to determine their own development paths and priorities and to hold institutions, governments, and other actors accountable for the actions on people. Thus, we aim to establish an open dialogue on development and human rights on a national and international level.
FDHRD seeks to raise awareness for non-governmental and civil society organisations in different governorates across Egypt, in order to play a pivotal role in containing humanitarian issues ad strengthen civic values.
The organisation works on a number of programmes through publishing research papers and holding workshops and seminars:
First: The Freedom of Speech and Expression Programme
The programme seeks to create opportunities for direct communication between policy makers and target groups (by creating a link between the two parties).
Second: Integrity and Transparency Programme
The programme seeks to promote the principles of integrity, transparency and responsibility to achieve the proposed objectives and policies to combat corruption.
Third: Counter-terrorism Watch Program
The Counter-Terrorism Watch seeks to monitor, follow up and confront extremist ideas and ideologies adopted by terrorist groups of all kinds. The programme seeks to use the social networking site to create awareness about terrorist issues.
Fourth: The Egyptians Abroad Programme
The programme works to document all violations and problems faced by Egyptians in Arab and European countries and the United States of America.
Through the members of the Network, we will expand the scope of our work to more organisations and individuals. We will additionally reach wider audience, exchange experience and share mutual benefits with the other organisations.
We look forward to join ALF Network to improve our relations developmental organisations in Egypt and abroad.