UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Friday cited a long list of "very worrying" elements that she has identified in Egypt's draft constitution, dpa reported.
Among them, the text does not explicitly ban discrimination on the basis of gender, religion and origin, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in Geneva.
Pillay said that while the new law would guarantee some human rights, "there are also some very worrying omissions and ambiguities, and in some areas the protections in it are even weaker than the 1971 Constitution it is supposed to replace."
The commissioner also pointed out that press freedom is not fully protected in the new text and that the new law would strip too many leaders of the formerly ruling National Democratic Party of their political rights.