

Under
the umbrella of what our country witnesses recently such as intensifying
reformation claims, dedicating the concept of the state of institutions,
the sovereignty of the law and the positive steps that have been taken
towards supporting democracy. Therefore, it is our duty to have our own
role to protect the democratic gains and in performing positive role in
pushing the reformation march forward.
Thus,
Maat center attempts to raise a generation that believe in the positive
participation in general affairs and in developing and activating the laws
related to these affairs.
Hence, Maat center’s great concern is to increase legal awareness among
the youth in general and the youth lawyers in particular to qualify them
and to guide them to the right path to be able to deliver their message in
the society sufficiently and peacefully.
More
over, Maat attempts to propagate, establish and strengthen the concept and
culture of democracy and peace among the Egyptian community, especially
youth, women and The Christians.

1- To
propagate, enhance and strengthen the culture of peace, democracy, human
rights, denouncing violence and combating crime and corruption.
2- To
activate the international charters and agreements that support the
everlasting and justice peace as well as human rights and increasing the
general awareness of it.
3- To
enhance and encourage the democratic actions, the aware ruling and the
sovereignty of law.
4--To
increase the citizen’s awareness of the legal and constitutional rights.
5-
Increasing the awareness of the youth leadership in the civil community
institutions and training them.
6-To
prepare studies and researches to contribute in developing the legislative
building.
7-To
offer legal and judicial support to the oppressed classes before the
specialize bodies and holding the symposiums ,conferences ,workshops
,training courses awareness companies as well as publishing books ,reports
and shifts and preparing field researches and studies concerning Maat’s
activities and enhancing coordination , cooperation and exchanging
experiences among the civil community institutions, the local regional and
international organizations .

Maat
in achieving its aims depends mainly on the coming mechanisms:
1-
Suing the judicial cases and offering legal help and support.
2-
Observing the violations of human rights and confronting them legally.
3-
Holding legal awareness campaigns to improve general participation and
human rights.
4-Holding campaigns to publish the culture of peace, denouncing violence
and the culture of others acceptance.
5-preparing legal and constitutional researches and studies.
6-
Publishing legal booklets and reports.
7-Holding training courses, workshops, symposiums and conferences.
8-Establishing legal library to help the scholars in the field of human
rights.

Maat
center takes as references various legal sources, the most important of it
are the Egyptian constitution, the international human rights law, the
UN’s charter, the international treaty concerning political and civil
rights and the international treaty concerning social and political
rights, as they are regarded as the natural base to establish justice,
apply the sovereignty of law and to promote the equality and rightness
values.