Land Center for Human Rights

“Land Center for Human Rights is a nongovernmental, non-profit organization.

It was established according to articles number 505,537 of the Egyptian civil law & article number 96 of the Egyptian constitution”.

Why Land Center for Human Rights?

The farmers’ issue represents a new & very important dimension for the Human Rights movement in Egypt for several reasons:

• The inadequacy of a legislative structure to protect agrarian laborers. In consequence, they are exposed to daily violations. The main targeted categories are women, children & permanent or seasonal agrarian laborers.
• The widening gap between urban and rural Egypt, especially in the services. Thus, a wide category of people are exposed to excessive violations due to the deteriorating economic & social conditions.
• Giving attention to the farmers’ rights and the agrarian sector in Egypt underlying the new policies of liberating the markets and studying how that effects their lives and the agronomical economy.
• The violations that the female rural laborers are exposed to domestically or at work or due to the deteriorating social conditions in general.
• The increasing phenomenon of child labor in Egypt and of the rate of illiteracy. The Center’s objectives: oParticipate in improving the agrarian laborers’ economic and social conditions in rural Egypt. oTo develop & provoke the rural citizens’ minds about the human rights’ culture and about their own rights. - Encouraging mutual work between NGOs to enforce values such as, democracy, human rights, economic social and cultural rights, etc. - Formulating the economic reform program in Egypt to guarantee the farmers’ rights and give them a secure labor atmosphere. - Exposing the real needs of the poor categories in Egypt and enabling these categories in the decision making process.