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Amendment of state and municipal public budget law in accordance with the economic and social rights of the 2014 Egyptian constitution

27 December، 20158fe72e23ug8oPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Reem Abdel HalimEgyptExecutive summary: The fair provision of public services has been quite problematic in a way that cannot be tackled just through adding a few articles to the constitution. These problems, instead, require legislative and administrative solutions that raise the citizens’ living standards through an equal distribution of services offered by the state. A major part of the problem lies in the way the state public budget is planned and administered. Several laws need to be amended through the intervention of members of parliament such as the State Public Budget Law number 53 for the year 1973 and its…

Euro-Mediterranean relations: What went wrong? Towards a long-term relation and the role of think tanks in this process

30 November، 20158fe72e23ug8oPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Mohamed ElAgati[1] This intervention focuses on tackling the methodology of the Euro-Med relations process rather than discussing particular events and incidents. First, I can describe the approach to this issue as problematic since it is based on a short-term view built on risk and interest assessment and measured mainly on trade balances. With the US/Russia current hegemony, like in the case of the current crisis in Syria, wise relations should target the long term and be based on opportunities and challenges’ assessments and measured on the capacity of cooperation and conducting dialogue between different stakeholders (not risk and interest). Measuring this…

Alternatives’ Papers, Second Issue (July 2015)

13 July، 20158fe72e23ug8oPapers and studies, Papers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions, Social justice and and inequality Multiple dimensions

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Ali Hassan ,Arab Forum for Alternatives ,Mina Samir ,Mohamed ElAgati ,Omar Samir Khalaf This issue Follow-ups · Yemeni crisis…an unfinished revolution 1 (A follow-up paper) Topic of the issue · Rise of the left…will it save Greece?: Reading parliamentarian elections results. )A follow-up paper) · What is happening inside the Turkish AK (Justice and Development) party? Ali Hassan · Reading the Sudanese elections. (A follow-up paper) · Knesset Elections: a look at the united Arab list. 38 (A follow-up paper) Issues · Development of citizenship between liberal political philosophy and Egyptian reality. 44 Mina Samir Book of the issue ·…

Alternatives’ Papers, the first issue, April 2015

29 April، 20158fe72e23ug8oPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Arab Forum for Alternatives ,Georges Fahmi ,Heba Khalil ,Rabha Seif ,Sameh Fawzy ,Shimaa ElSharkawyThis Issue: Follow-ups French from Arabic origins: crisis of integration. A Follow –up paper Future of Egyptian-Saudi relations in he light of regional and international changes. A Follow –up paper Issues Al-Azhar and Democratic transformation in Egypt. Dr. Georges Sarwat Fahmi Syria: Military interactions momentum on a moving map. Rabha Seif Allam Women and Citizenship: Reading the religious capital. Dr. Sameh Fawzy Book of the issue Book Review: Reinventing Democracy (From Greece to Occupy) Shimaa Elsharkawy Article Policy recommendation for the European Union towards a positive role…

On concept and practices of citizenship after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and its impact on Strengthening Women’s rights

29 March، 20158fe72e23ug8oPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Arab Forum for Alternativesembeddoc url=”https://www.afalebanon.org/app/uploads/2018/02/On_concept_and_practices_of_citizenship_after_the_2011_Egyptian_Revolution_and_its_impact_on_Strengthening_WomenCus_rights.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google” text=”Download”] Arab forum for alternatives organized a project on the concept and practices of citizenship after the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and its impact on Strengthening Women’s rights, in partnership with Arab forum for citizenship in Transition, and International Peace Institute. The project aims to come up with policy recommendations on specific issues such as citizenship and political and civil rights, citizenship and economic and social rights, citizenship and civil society, religious institutions and the discourse of citizenship. The following are executive summaries of the policy papers: Women and citizenship: reading the religious capital:…

Policy recommendations to the European Union: Towards a positive role to achieve social justice in the Arab world

4 March، 20158fe72e23ug8oPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Heba Khalil Arab revolutions have shown in the past years that the followed economic models that was backed by the European Union has failed to achieve the promised development goals, and resulted in a clear reduction in citizens’ access to economic and social rights. In spite of the endorsement of the European Union on that, it still adopts policies in the course of the Deauville partnership, which goes in line with international financial institutions, which are still promoting more liberalization of trade and finance, privatization and attracting foreign direct investment, as well as austerity in spending to meet the…

The coming parliament and social justice legislations

4 March، 20158fe72e23ug8oPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Reem Abdel HalimThe concept of social justice is not just a concept that is linked to economy in its technical sense, yet it has as well political dimensions, one of the most important dimensions is spreading the spirit and culture of peaceful coexistence among citizens, that citizens without the feeling of justice among themselves, the society cannot be in a state of stability, which in turn affects all various classes. The concept of economic and social justice in its legal framework is based on searching for legislations that hinder achievement of social justice in Egypt, and perhaps the most important…

Social Justice and the civil society between strategies of defense and development

26 February، 20158fe72e23ug8oPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Mohamed ElAgatiThe role of civil society in achieving social justice has emerged with its establishment in the very beginning, even if it was only excluded to the charitable aspect. The core idea was to improve the most marginalized and poor categories, even if the charitable work is not enough in that context. Civil society has reached a certain degree of maturity with the Arab revolutions. It attempted to play a pivotal role in achieving objectives of revolutions that raised certain slogans when they emerged and social justice was in the heart of them either directly or through other slogans such…

Political parties… Toward an active role in adoption of more just policies and legislations

26 February، 20158fe72e23ug8oPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Omar Samir KhalafIntroduction: After the January 25th 2011 revolution, there were several new political parties that have emerged in the context of opening the public space and freedom to form political parties and diminishing previous restrictions on the process of creating parties, as this process was subject to the ruling party in terms of criteria and application. Hence, we saw the emergence of many political parties in the past four years, though few of them were effectively working, no matter what, these new parties are considered among gains of the revolution, and political parties are means to achieve policies that…

Political Parties’ Guide to Building Coalitions

8 September، 20148fe72e23ug8oPapers and studies, Political transformations and social movements Developments and visions

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Nick Harvey ,Nick Sigler ,Rania ZadaA coalition or electoral alliance is a vehicle by which like-minded political parties can come together to fight an election and/or to collaborate in parliament in order to ensure that their voice and their political beliefs have a better chance of being heard. This is based on the principle that in order to achieve anything in a democracy it is usually far easier when done collectively. And by making it easier for smaller parties to get elected, coalitions or alliances are also a means by which minority views can be heard.