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U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Egypt (2006 report) Bureau of Democracy, Hum. Rgts., and Labor, U.S. Dept. of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Egypt (2006). |
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CEDAW Committee Documents: Egypt
Egypt, First Periodic Report to the CEDAW Committee, U.N. Doc. CEDAW/C/5/Add.10 & Amend.1 (1983). |
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CEDAW Committee, Summary Record of the 34th and 39th meetings: Egypt (1984), U.N. Doc. ST/CSDHA/5, pp. 254-61, 405-11 (1989). |
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Second Report
Egypt, Second Periodic Report to the CEDAW Committee, U.N. Doc. CEDAW/C/13/Add.2 & Amend.1 (1989). |
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CEDAW Committee, Summary Record of the 164th and 165th meetings: Egypt's Second Report (1990), U.N. Doc. A/39/45, paras. 181-235 (1984). |
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Third, Fourth, and Fifth Reports
Egypt, Third Periodic Report to the CEDAW Committee, U.N. Doc. CEDAW/C/EGY/3 (1996). |
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Egypt, Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports to the CEDAW Committee, U.N. Doc. CEDAW/C/EGY/4-5 (2000). |
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CEDAW Committee, Summary Record of the 492nd and 493rd meetings: Egypt's Third, Fourth, and Fifth Reports, U.N. Doc. CEDAW/C/SR.492 & 493 (2001). |
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CEDAW Committee, Concluding Observations: Egypt (2001), U.N. Doc. A/56/38, paras.312-358 (2001). |
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Sixth and Seventh Reports
Egypt, Combined Sixth and Seventh Periodic Reports to the CEDAW Committee, U.N. Doc. CEDAW/C/EGY/7 (2008). |
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Egypt, CEDAW Committee, Summary Record of the 918th and 919th meetings: Egypt's Sixth and Seventh Reports, U.N. Doc. CEDAW/C/SR.918 & 919 (2010). |
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Egypt, List of Issues and Questions With Regard to the Consideration |
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CEDAW Committee, Concluding Observations: Egypt (2010), U.N. Doc. CEDAW/C/EGY/CO/7 (2010) |
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Human Rights Watch, Divorced from Justice: Women's Unequal Access to Divorce in Egypt |
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A.S. v. Hungary, U. N. Doc. CEDAW/C/36/D/4/2004 (2006). |
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Ms. A. T. v. Hungary, U.N. Doc. CEDAW/C/32/D/2/2003 (2005) |
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Report on Mexico produced by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women under article 8 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention, and reply from the Government of Mexico |
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Egypt is located in Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Libya and the Gaza Strip, and the Red Sea north of Sudan, and includes the Asian Sinai Peninsula.
This chapter is concerned with family law in a particular country. For an overview on how to research family law internationally, please see the following link to a research guide prepared by Georgetown Law Librarian Marylin Johnson Raisch.
Transnational and Comparative Family Law: Harmonization and Implementation