The Partners for Transparency Foundation released today the recommendations of the panel discussion that it organized in cooperation with the “El Mahrousa Center for Economic and Social Development” regarding the new NGO law.

Among the recommendations came the necessity to go through all steps of the dialogue with the government, parliament and the committee in charge of preparing the executive regulations for the new civil organizations law to ensure that the list comes out in a way that avoids some of the defects in the law and reduces the burden of the restrictions contained therein, in addition to that this dialogue could lead to amendments In the law itself in the future, especially after clear defects and negatives appeared during its implementation, and journalists and media professionals stressed in this regard the need to initiate a request to meet the Prime Minister as the one responsible for issuing the executive regulations.

The participants also recommended that the executive regulations include a detail of the elastic and vague terms in the law so that they are not misused in intransigence towards associations that operate in certain fields, especially the human rights and defense fields, which are terms such as societal peace, public morals, national security and the priorities of the development plan, as they demanded The necessity of reducing the financial fees and fees specified for registering associations and civil institutions because they are essentially voluntary work, in addition to the necessity of reconsidering the penal philosophy contained in the law.

The Partners for Transparency Foundation, in cooperation with the Al-Mahrousa Center for Economic and Social Development, held a panel discussion for a group of journalists and media professionals concerned with civil society issues, within the framework of the Community Dialogue Project for an Active Civil Society, implemented by Al-Mahrousa, last Saturday.