curricula and concepts into the curriculum of the Police academy and military academies, in
order to ensure that law enforcement officers are aware. These concepts are taught to the
judiciary, members of judicial bodies, the National Centre for Judicial Studies and other
training centres.
2.
The Government provides programmes aimed at raising the culture and public awareness
through the guidance and family counselling offices of the Ministry of Social Welfare, by
directing the family to the various sources of services in the community to benefit from them
and to achieve family stability. The Government is intensifying the implementation of public
awareness and education programmes through meetings and symposia, and provides
educational, psychological and social counselling services to reduce the negative impact of
parent’s ignorance on the scientific and health methods of good education, which is a result
of the family's stability, as well as programmes to raise awareness of the rights and duties.
The Government also financially and technically supports national non-governmental
organizations working to sensitize citizens to their constitutional and legal rights.
3.
The Government shall continuously develop a system for receiving complaints and petitions
of citizens and ways to deal with them, and facilitate their submission through the diversity of
sources receiving complaints, including the website of the Council of Ministers on the
Internet and the telephone service advertised throughout the day, and the website of the
Ministry of the Interior on the Internet, along with the complaints mechanisms of the
independent national councils and the hotlines they supervise.
Sixth: Efforts to enforce the Charter at the external level:
In international relations, Egypt has supported the struggle of African peoples to gain
independence, and continues those efforts to eliminate all forms of racism and foreign
domination, from tackling the problems of debt and poverty, and to strengthen national efforts
for comprehensive development, including in the area of human rights. These efforts have been
embodied in Egypt's accession to 14 African conventions out of a total of 16 existing
conventions, contributing to the African Development Fund, supporting the efforts of regional
economic groupings in Africa, and advancing African interests in international forums, including
those related to human rights and the right to development. The Egyptian people are also
contributing experts in the work of the brotherly African countries to support their development
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