Egypt: Eight centers for human rights accommodate their situations with the new law

Egyptian Minister of Insurance and Social Affairs Mirvat Muhanna El-Telawi said that eight centers for human rights working in Cairo called for making their status fit within the requirements of the new law governing non-governmental organizations (law number 153 for the year 1999). The minister told ArabicNews.com The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights' Prisoners Said, Egyptian Women's Causes, Ibn-Khaldon for Development, the Land, and the National Society for the Study and Learning of Human Rights, will see their requests fulfilled during the next six months.