{"id":17201,"date":"2006-08-07T16:27:14","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T16:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=17201"},"modified":"2018-04-18T16:29:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:29:10","slug":"egypt-removing-religion-from-national-ids-a-positive-but-symbolic-step-respect-for-freedom-of-religion-the-only-way-to-confront-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/egypt-removing-religion-from-national-ids-a-positive-but-symbolic-step-respect-for-freedom-of-religion-the-only-way-to-confront-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Removing Religion from National IDs a Positive but Symbolic Step, Respect for Freedom of Religion the Only Way to Confront Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) today expressed support for the proposal to remove religion from national identity (ID) cards. The proposal will be discussed tomorrow at a workshop organized by the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR). Although a positive step, the EIPR warned it would not end discrimination faced by citizens in obtaining necessary official documents because of their religious affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Removing religion from national ID cards would undoubtedly be a step forward as it would send a clear message that religion is a private matter and that the state is not interested in the religious affiliation of citizens except where required by law,&#8221; said EIPR Director Hossam Bahgat. &#8220;But violations of freedom of religion in relation to official documents are far too serious to be solved by such a symbolic gesture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eipr.org\/en\/press\/2006\/08\/removing-religion-national-ids-positive-symbolic-step-respect-freedom-religion-only\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.eipr.org\/en\/press\/2006\/08\/removing-religion-national-ids-positive-symbolic-step-respect-freedom-religion-only<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) today expressed support for the proposal to remove religion from national identity (ID) cards. The proposal will be discussed tomorrow at a workshop organized by the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR). Although a positive step, the EIPR warned it would not end discrimination faced by citizens in [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-egypt","type-news-articles","item-year-484","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17202,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17201\/revisions\/17202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}