Liaison Committee of Development NGOs to the European Communities [ NGO-EC | NGO-EC Liaison Committee | Liaison Committee of EC/NGOs ]

NGO Committee on Disarmament [ NGOCD | Special NGO Committee on Disarmament | Non-Governmental Organization Committee on Disarmament ]

Committee on NGOs | Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations

Committee on International Non-Governmental Organizations [ NGO Committee | Committee on NGOs ]

Liaison Committee of Development NGOs to the European Communities | Liaison Committee of Non-Governmental Organisations | NGO-EC [Abbr.]

non-governmental organization | NGO | nongovernmental organization

non-governmental organisation [ NGO | non-governmental international organisation | non-governmental international organization | non-governmental organization | non-governmental regional organisation | non-governmental regional organization | non-governmental world organisation | non-governmental world organization ]

non-governmental organization | NGO

A. whereas the situation of NGOs in Egypt is alarming; whereas the establishment of a committee to review civil institutions and NGOs, with the aim of tightening legal control over foreign funding of civil society organisations and political foundations, was announced in October 2011 and a request was subsequently made to the Central Bank to monitor all bank transfers to and from NGOs; whereas the offices of 10 foreign-funded organisations were searched and those organisations were investigated and then banned by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on 29 December 2011; whereas on 5 February 2012 Egypt’s military-led governm ...[+++]ent announced that it was putting 19 American citizens and 24 others on trial as part of a criminal investigation into the foreign financing of non-profit-making organisations active in Egypt; whereas Egyptian judges are investigating alleged illegal foreign financing of pro-democracy NGOs and political foundations, and whereas 44 defendants, including 19 Americans, 14 Egyptians, five Serbs, two Germans, two Lebanese, one Jordanian and one Palestinian, have had their cases referred to the Cairo Criminal Court and ordered not to leave the country;

A. whereas the situation of NGOs in Egypt is alarming; whereas the establishment of a committee to review civil institutions and NGOs, with the aim of tightening legal control over foreign funding of civil society organisations and political foundations, was announced in October 2011 and a request was subsequently made to the Central Bank to monitor all bank transfers to and from NGOs; whereas the offices of 10 foreign-funded organisations were searched and those organisations were investigated and then banned by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on 29 December 2011; whereas on 5 February 2012 Egypt's military-led govern ...[+++]ment announced that it was putting 19 American citizens and 24 others on trial as part of a criminal investigation into the foreign financing of non-profit-making organisations active in Egypt; whereas Egyptian judges are investigating alleged illegal foreign financing of pro-democracy NGOs and political foundations, and whereas 44 defendants, including 19 Americans, 14 Egyptians, five Serbs, two Germans, two Lebanese, one Jordanian and one Palestinian, have had their cases referred to the Cairo Criminal Court and ordered not to leave the country;

J. whereas a committee to review civil institutions and NGOs aimed at tightening legal control on foreign funding of civil society organizations was recently announced and, as a consequence, a request was issued to the Central Bank to monitor all bank transitions of NGOs; whereas at the same time the state security prosecutor accused organisations that have illegally received funding from foreign sources of 'grand treason' and 'conspiracy against Egypt' through foreign agendas aimed at harming Egyptian national security; whereas, furthermore, the threats levelled at NGOs, especially those involved in the defence of human rights, in an ...[+++]intensive defamatory campaign launched by the state-owned press, served to de-legitimise and stigmatise them in the eyes of the public as actors acting against the interest of Egypt,

32. Welcomes the retention of the practice of the participation of human rights NGOs in the debates and hopes that this participation will be improved and strengthened in the future; reiterates its call for a reform of the UN Committee on NGOs, so as to ensure the effective participation of independent NGOs, and points out that recommendations for accreditation must be made by independent experts on the basis of the work and contributions of NGOs;