Butrous Ghali, a chairman for Egyptian human rights council
Egypt, Politics, 1/20/2004

The Egyptian Shoura council decided yesterday to appoint the former secretary general of the UN, Butrous Ghali, as a chairman for the National Council For Human Rights and the former minister of information, Ahmad Kamal Abu al-Majd, as his deputy.

The policy committee at the ruling Democratic National Party led by Gamal Mubarak, son of the Egyptian President, proposed the formation of the council. The People's Assembly ( Parliament) issued a decision to found it in June, 2003.

The council includes 25 political and opposition leaders and activists in the area of human rights as well as public figures. The formation of the council falls in the course of several reforms the Egyptian President undertook to make in the recent conference of the national party.

Worthy mentioning that reports of the Egyptian, Arab and international human rights have been spoken since years of human rights violations in Egypt especially in prisons.

Ghali ( 82 year old) occupied the post of the minister of state for foreign affairs from 1977 to 1991. He became the deputy premier for foreign affairs in Egypt until he assumed the post of the UN secretary general in January 1992 for five years.

Later on, Ghali assumed the post of the secretary general of the Franchophony ( the French speaking countries ) until 2002 when he was succeeded by the former President of Senegal, Abdul Dayyouf.

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