Civil society groups say covert screening process excluded government’s critics
Egypt's president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, speaking at Cop26 in Glasgow last year. His country will host Cop27 in November.Egypt's president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, speaking at Cop26 in Glasgow last year. His country will host Cop27 in November.A group of Egyptian civil society organisations have been prevented from attending the Cop27 climate summit by a covert registration process that filtered out groups critical of the Egyptian government.
“You don’t let a government tell the UN who is and who isn’t an NGO, certainly not the Egyptian government,” said Ahmad Abdallah, of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms , one of five leading organisations unable to register to attend the conference due to the screening. The Egyptian authorities’ efforts to screen out prominent organisations with a record of criticising their rule, particularly on the issue of human rights, comes amidover their treatment of protests and civil society at the Cop in Sharm el-Sheikh in November.
A UNFCCC spokesperson said: “We advised the government of Egypt that they may request the [Cop] bureau to provide for a one-off admission for specific entities, but given the timeframe and resources available we would not be in a position to screen or conduct due diligence of these organisations. If we did not facilitate the processing of this proposed list, the access by civil society groups from the host country to the official Cop venue would be limited.
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