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Representatives of more than 30 feminist and human rights organizations as well as several parties staged protests outside al-Itihādīyah Palace on Thursday (October 4) with lines along al-Mirghanī street to express rejection against sexual harassment.
The National Council for Women (NCW) on Sunday (November 25), on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, organized a conference in support of the cause.
Ambassador Mirvat al-Talāwī, Chairperson of the National Council for Women, said that all Egyptian feminist organizations and women-backing coalitions and groups called for protests at 11:00 am on Monday (October 22) outside the Syndicate of Journalists to defend the rights of 44 million Egyptian...
Ambassador Mirvat Tillāwī, Head of the National Council for Women, stated that during her participation in the population and development conference that was recently held in New York, she felt a regression against women’s rights. She added that this is not only in Islamic countries, but added that...
Intensive contacts between Egyptian feminist movements and Tunisian human rights activists and MPs discuss means and ways to benefit from the Tunisian experience in introducing provisions for the equality in inheritance between men and women.
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Diaconia Office for development projects, affiliated to Coptic Catholic Church, organized on Friday a forum on the role of women in the Egyptian society, and the various forms of violence exercised against her.
This paper was prepared by the two interns from India
7 December 2017, by Jasper A. Kiepe and Salma Khamis This article is the second installment in a three-part series: In the first article, we gave an overview on the situation in Egypt with respect to sexual harassment, and violence against women more generally. In this piece, we examine the...
This article is the first part of a series of three on sexual harrasement in Egypt, following in the wake of the killing of a South Korean woman in Siwa: In the first part, we give an overview on the situation in Egypt, in the second part we will examine the legal framework, and in the final part,...
Her father was accused of betraying ʿUrābī and his revolution, and that he was a reason for facilitating the British to enter Egypt. She was also shocked by the death of her brother, who was the one who understood her most, despite her young age. When she was a child, she was forced to marry...

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