{"id":20056,"date":"2020-11-17T08:49:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T08:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/?p=20056"},"modified":"2020-11-17T08:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T08:49:49","slug":"labor-protests-and-social-movements-monitoring-center-from-1-to-15-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/?p=20056&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Labor Protests and Social Movements Monitoring Center From 1 to 15 November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>The Labor Protests and Social Movements Monitoring Center monitored 16 protests<\/b>, including 10 social protests in addition to 6 labor protests during the reporting period, which witnessed a significant escalation in demands for the right to work and the right to housing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Surprisingly, this period witnessed the emergence of new protest sectors which have neither political affiliation nor union or labor connection, as they spontaneously come up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>First: Protesting methods<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Protest vigils&#8221; topped the list of labor protests took place during the reporting period, followed by cases of &#8220;threatening to protest \u2013 suicide&#8221; with 3 protests each, followed by cases of &#8220;complaints and sit-ins&#8221; in third place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Protest vigils:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>The security services arrested a group of people participating in a protest in front of the High Commissioner for Refugees in the 6th of October City<\/li>\n<li>Dozens of parents of language school students in the Al-Montazah Educational Administration, east of Alexandria, organized a protest vigil in front of the Administrative Prosecution headquarters in Mahtet Al-Raml district to denounce the school tuition fees increases<\/li>\n<li>Technical education students organize a protest in front of the Ministry of Technical Education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Dozens of nursing staff in Port Said hospitals organized a protest against their unpaid salaries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Threatening to strike:<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Farmers in Kafr Shukr Center in Dakahlia governorate protested the practices of security men after storming their agricultural lands and damaging their crops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Railway train drivers protested at Ramsis railway\u00a0 Station after their colleague was sentenced to nine years in prison<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Residents of Al-Mandoura village in Kafr El-Sheikh Center protested the results of the parliamentary elections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Suicide cases:<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>A salesman threatened to commit suicide in the Suez Canal area for failing to be given a shop in the Port Fouad commercial market in the Suez governorate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>High school student commited suicide by hanging himself after passing through to a financial crisis in Alexandria governorate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>A citizen sets himself on fire in Tahrir Square in Cairo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Sit-ins:<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Workers of Nag Hammadi Aluminum factory compound staged a sit in<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>The security services dispersed by force a sit-in organized by a group of Sudanese people following the killing of a child in Giza<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Strikes<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>An employee went on a hunger strike demanding to meet the governor of Minya<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Collective complaint:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Students at the Social Service Institute in Alexandria filed a collective complaint against Professor Muhammad Mahdaly for his continuous insult to Islam throughout his lectures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>A group of workers at the German factory &#8220;Lyoni&#8221; for auto rotors submitted complaints against the factory&#8217;s administration to protest the arbitrary dismissal of 600 workers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Blocking off roads<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Supporters of a parliamentary candidate blocked the road in Dakahlia governorate to protest the elections result<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>The protesting sectors<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2018Residential neighborhoods&#8217; Sector topped the list of protesting sectors with 4 protests, followed by the \u2018education and scientific research&#8217; sectors with 3 protests each, then came the \u2018the state&#8217;s workers and the foreign community&#8217; sectors with two protests each<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Each of &#8216;the health sector &#8211; private sector employees &#8211; business sector workers- railway drivers &#8211; the farmers and peasants&#8217; sectors, with one protest number.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Distribution of protests in Egypt&#8217;s governorates<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Cairo came at the forefront of the list of the protesting governorates with 4 protests, which is the highest among all governorates, followed by Alexandria governorate with three protests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In third place, each of Giza and Dakahlyia governorates shares two protests for each;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Followed by the governorates of &#8216;Kafr El Sheikh &#8211; Port Said &#8211; Minya &#8211; Qena \u2013 Suez&#8217; with one protest per each.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Fourth: Distribution of protests in Egypt&#8217;s governorates<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<table class=\" alignleft\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Kind of protests<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Number of protests<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Governorate<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<ol>\n<li>Threatening to protest<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol>\n<li>Protest vigil<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0Collective Punishment<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>1 Suicide<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Cairo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1 Collective Punishment<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Protest vigil<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol>\n<li>Suicide<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Alexandria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<ol>\n<li>Sit-in<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol>\n<li>Protest vigil<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Giza<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1 Blocking roads<\/p>\n<p>1 Threatening to strike<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Dakahlyia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<ol>\n<li>Threatening to strike<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Kafr Sheikh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<ol>\n<li>Protest vigil<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Port Said<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<ol>\n<li>Hunger strike<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Minya<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1 Sit-in<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Qena<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1 Threatening to strike<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Suez<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labor Protests and Social Movements Monitoring Center monitored 16 protests, including 10 social protests in addition to 6 labor protests during the reporting period, which witnessed a significant escalation in demands for the right to work and the right to housing. 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