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The report also criticised the "absence of channels through which young people can express their opposing views or solutions for social problems."
The report focused on Egyptian youths aged 18-29, saying they represented 22 percent of Egypt's overall population of about 80 million people.
It said Egypt should improve and make education more accessible for its youths, especially for low-income people and girls in poor families, saying that 80-82 percent of them have no access to education whatsoever.
Egypt has been swept by protests in recent weeks following the death of 28-year-old Khaled Said.
According to witnesses, Said was killed on June 6 when plainclothes policemen dragged him out of an Internet cafe and beat him to death on a busy Alexandria street.
But authorities say an autopsy showed he did of asphyxiation.
Said has become the latest symbol of police brutality among tech-savvy Egyptian activists, many of them young people.
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The report focused on Egyptian youths aged 18-29, saying they represented 22 percent of Egypt's overall population of about 80 million people.
It said Egypt should improve and make education more accessible for its youths, especially for low-income people and girls in poor families, saying that 80-82 percent of them have no access to education whatsoever.
Egypt has been swept by protests in recent weeks following the death of 28-year-old Khaled Said.
According to witnesses, Said was killed on June 6 when plainclothes policemen dragged him out of an Internet cafe and beat him to death on a busy Alexandria street.
But authorities say an autopsy showed he did of asphyxiation.
Said has become the latest symbol of police brutality among tech-savvy Egyptian activists, many of them young people.
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