Egyptian NGOs complain of being shut out of Cop27 climate summit | Cop27 | The Guardian - 0 views
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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.
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“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 (ECRF), one of five leading organisations unable to register to attend the conference due to the screening.
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“the UN is colluding with the Egyptian government to whitewash this regime”
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