Date
Type
Case No
Country
Mandate(s)
Summary of the allegation transmitted
Reply
EGY 12/2013
02/09/2013 Egypt
JUA
02/01/2014
Freedom of
Alleged violence against members of Christian religious minorities in Egypt, including
02/01/2014
religion;
killings. According to the information received, there has been an upsurge of violence
Minority issues; against Christian religious minorities in Egypt by supporters of the ousted president,
Mohamed Morsi. It is reported that they have attacked members of the Christian
minority community, their property and religious objects in locations across Egypt since
two pro-Morsi sit-ins were violently dispersed by the security forces. Since the military
crackdown on demonstrations in Cairo on 14 August 2013, as many as 61 Egyptian
churches have been attacked, vandalized and desecrated. Some attacks have been small
scale attacks, while in other incidents churches have been fired on with bullets or gutted
by fire. Mobs have also allegedly attacked several Christian schools, dozens of Christianowned businesses and homes, and an orphanage. In addition, a number of killings and
injuries of members of the Christian minority have been reported.
ARM 1/2013
10/09/2013 Armenia
JUA
Discrimination
against women
in law and in
practic;
Freedom of
expression;
Freedom of
peaceful
assembly and of
association;
Human rights
defenders;
Violence against
women;
27/02/2014
Allegations of threats and harassment of Armenian women’s non-governmental
organizations and women human rights defenders. According to the information
received, the Women’s Resource Centre, a grass-roots non-governmental organization
combatting discrimination based on gender and providing psychological and legal
support to survivors of gender-based violence in Armenia, has been the subject of online
threats and calls for violence against it following the adoption of draft Law No. 57 on
Equal Rights and Equal Opportunities for Men and Women by the Armenian Parliament
in May 2013. Reportedly, extremist groups manipulating the meaning of some provisions
in the above-mentioned law and disseminate misleading information on social networks
sites describing women’s NGOs and women human rights defenders as, inter alia,
“traitors of the nation” and “destroyers of families”.
A/HRC/26/21
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