[2] Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali played a "significant role"[3] in creating the organization, and served as its president until 2012.
[6] In its 2009 Human Rights Report on Egypt, the United States State Department described the NCHR as a "consultative subsidiary of the Shura Council," but recognized that the NCHR's 2008/2009 annual report highlighted the human rights abuses by the Egyptian government, such as the imposition of a state of emergency, mistreatment of arrested citizens, weak counterterrorism laws, and restrictions on political parties and NGOs.
The NCHR reported that the Egyptian government forced public workers to vote and restricted access to polling station from outside monitors.
[8] In 2008, the NCHR investigated the incidents at the Monastery of Saint Fana and highlighted the event in a report focused on the increase in sectarian violence in Egypt.
[10] However, this report was met with criticism from those who believe that Mubarak should be held criminally, in addition to politically, responsible for violence against protesters[11]