Assiut University started the proceedings of the conference: "Assiut and Human Rights Issues: Horizons and Challenges." The conference was organized by the National Council for Human Rights in collaboration with the Centre for Research and Studies of Human Rights, Assiut University. This conference is held within the Council's attempts to register and document the complaints in Assiut Governorate and trace the reality of human rights in all Egyptian governorates. Further, the conference tends to locate the problems in each governorate and find solutions for economic problems.