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Public Engagement & Social Change
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Why Toronto Keep Building Condos No One Can Live In?
Research Focus, Methodology, and Questions: The research focuses on the rapid urban change that has occurred in the City of Toronto, with an emphasis…
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How the EHON amendments could reshape Toronto?
On Thursday, November 13, 2025, Toronto city council voted, by a majority, to approve zoning by-law amendments to the Expanding Housing Options in Neighbourhoods…
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Could Egypt Fight Alongside Israel?
On July 29, 2026, a fire broke out at Egypt’s Damietta Port on the Mediterranean coast after a drone reportedly struck a gas vessel…
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15 Years After the Egyptian Revolution: Sisi Persists in Misleading the Public
On the 15th anniversary of the January Revolution, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi continues, with remarkable persistence, to justify the past and invoke behind-the-scenes events…
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Palestinians in Egypt: From Genocide to Legal Marginalization
When the night settles and its noise fades, and Ghada sits by her window watching Cairo’s lights, she recalls the defining moment between homeland…
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Al-Fashir: A Sudanese city bleeding under ethnic cleansing
The conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region in the southwest began in 2003, when two rebel groups—the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Justice and…
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Egypt: Rights Groups Condemn the Arbitrary Referral of Exiled Academic Taqadum Al-Khatib to Trial and Call for an End to Transnational Repression
The undersigned organizations express their condemnation of the continued persecution and harassment of Egyptian researcher and academic Dr. Taqadum Al-Khatib, who has been living…
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Civil Society Welcomes Decision Not to Sign Egypt’s Draft Criminal Procedure Code into Law
We the undersigned Egyptian and international civil society organizations welcome the decision of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to not sign the draft Criminal Procedure…
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REDWORD welcomes the presidential pardon of Alaa AbdelFattah and urges the release of all political prisoners.
REDWORD for Human Rights & Freedom of Expression welcomes the presidential pardon of Alaa AbdelFattah and urges the release of all political prisoners. We…
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12 Hours in Shatila Refugee Camp: Massacre Wounds Have Never Healed
What is the fate of the half a million refugees in Lebanon living in refugee camps? A community who already endures a life…
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From Oslo to New York: Can the Two-State Solution Survive?
Two days ago, the UN General Assembly approved a draft resolution endorsing the “New York Declaration.” The resolution, which addresses achieving a peaceful settlement…
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Egypt’s Diplomatic Missions Weaponized as transnational repression tool
We strongly condemn the unprecedented weaponization of Egyptian diplomatic missions as tools of transnational repression against peaceful protesters abroad. A recently leaked recording of…