Former Ambassador Moushira Khattab, President of the National Council for Human Rights, confirmed, during an interview with journalist Amr Khalil on the “Min Misr” program broadcast on the CBC channel, that there has been a major shift that Egypt has achieved in recent years regarding women’s rights, which presents unprecedented justice and great victory to the state.
In addition, she highlighted the change in the rights of Copts and credited the political will of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who kept his promise to Egyptian women, stressing that women are the key to any change in society.
During the interview, Khattab said there is great interest in economic and cultural rights, and it is necessary to work in parallel with civil and political rights, which do not cost the state much. Those rights are legal obligations, and their implementation must be immediate and without any conditions.
The ambassador further pointed out that economic rights cost Egypt a lot of money, but that doesn’t stop the state’s commitment to achieving them gradually.
She finally remarked that, for the first time, the 2014 Constitution allocated large budgets to education and health rights, which are expensive compared to civil and political rights because they are considered economic rights.
