The document summarizes several articles from the Egyptian constitution related to healthcare, the environment, torture, equality, privacy, bodily integrity, organ donation, political parties, rights of the disabled, charitable endowments, restrictions on economic activity for members of the House of Representatives, and financial disclosure requirements for members. Key topics covered include banning medical neglect, protecting the environment, prohibiting torture, ensuring equality before the law, protecting privacy of homes and bodies, regulating organ donation, enabling political parties while restricting certain activities, guaranteeing rights of the disabled, promoting charitable giving, and imposing conflict of interest restrictions and disclosure rules for government officials.
2. Article 18. Health Care (Part of it)
Denying any form of medical treatment to any human in
emergency or life-threatening situations is a crime.
3. Article 46. Environment
Every individual has the right to live in a healthy, sound and
balanced environment. Its protection is a national duty. The
state is committed to taking the necessary measures to
preserve it, avoid harming it, rationally use its natural
resources to ensure that sustainable development is
achieved, and guarantee the rights of future generations
thereto.
5. Article 53. Equality in public rights and duties
Citizens are equal before the law, possess equal rights and
public duties, and may not be discriminated against on the
basis of religion, belief, sex, origin, race, color, language,
disability, social class, political or geographical affiliation, or
for any other reason.
Discrimination and incitement to hate are crimes punishable
by law.
6. Article 58. Inviolability of homes
Homes are inviolable. Except in cases of danger, or if a call
for help is made, they may not be entered, searched,
monitored or wiretapped except by causal judicial warrant
specifying the place, time and purpose thereof. All of the
above is to be conducted in cases specified by the law, and
in the manner prescribed. Upon entering or searching
homes, those inside shall be notified and informed of the
warrant issued in this regard.
7. Article 60. Inviolability of the human body
The human body is inviolable. Any assault, defilement or
mutilation thereof is a crime punishable by law. Organ
trafficking is forbidden, and no medical or scientific
experiment may be performed thereon without the
documented free consent of the subject, according to the
established principles of the medical field as regulated by
law.
8. Article 61. Tissue and organ donation
Donation of tissues and organs is a gift of life. Every human
has the right to donate his body organs during his lifetime or
after his death by virtue of a documented consent or will.
The state commits to the establishment of a mechanism to
regulate the rules for organ donation and transplant in
accordance with the law.
9. Article 74. Freedom to form political parties
Citizens have the right to form political parties by
notification as regulated by the law. No political activity may
be exercised or political parties formed on the basis of
religion, or discrimination based on sex, origin, sect or
geographic location, nor may any activity be practiced that is
hostile to democracy, secretive, or which possesses a
military or quasi-military nature.
Parties may only dissolved by a judicial ruling.
10. Article 81. Rights of the disabled
The state shall guarantee the health, economic, social, cultural,
entertainment, sporting and education rights of dwarves and
people with disabilities. The state shall provide work
opportunities for such individuals, and allocate a percentage of
these opportunities to them, in addition to equipping public
utilities and their surrounding environment. The state
guarantees their right to exercise political rights, and their
integration with other citizens in order to achieve the principles
of equality, justice and equal opportunities.
11. Article 90. Charitable Endowment
The state shall encourage the charitable endowment system
to establish and sponsor scientific, cultural, health, and
social institutions and others and to ensure their
independence. Its affairs shall be managed in accordance
with the conditions set by the person who created the
endowment. This will be regulated by law.
12. Article 109. Restrictions on economic activity,
financial disclosure
No House of Representatives member may, throughout his
tenure, whether in person or through an intermediary,
purchase or rent any piece of state property, or any public-law
legal persons, public sector companies, or the public business
sector. Nor is he allowed to lease, sell or barter with the state
any part of his own property, nor conclude a contract with the
state as vendors, suppliers, contractors or others. Any such
actions shall be deemed void.
13. Article 109. Restrictions on economic activity,
financial disclosure
A member must submit a financial disclosure upon taking
office, upon leaving it and at the end of every year.
If, because of or in relation to his membership, he should
receive cash or in-kind gifts, ownership thereof reverts to
the state treasury.
The foregoing is organized by law.