Date of source: Saturday, July 15, 2023
The National Council for Women (NCW) confirmed that the rate of female circumcision in Egypt has plummeted thanks to growing awareness that the practice is a crime and has nothing to do with religion or medicine. They added that credit for this goes to the state, the NCW, and the National Council...
Date of source: Friday, September 17, 2021
Dr. Māyā Mursī, Head of the National Council of Women (NCW), participated in a session on “women’s health rights” as part of the activities of the 22nd Annual International Conference, organized by the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Qaṣr al-ʿAynī School of Medicine.
Date of source: Tuesday, November 10, 2020
The National Council for Women (NCW) praised the opening of the first shelter for victims of human trafficking in Egypt. Dr. Māyā Mursī, head of the NCW, stressed that Egypt has made strenuous efforts to combat this crime.
Date of source: Monday, October 12, 2020
A video being circulated on social media showing Christian children reenacting the kidnapping and execution of Egyptian Copts in Libya in 2015 by ISIS has incited anger after it was reported that it was filmed inside one of the churches.
Date of source: Sunday, February 2, 2020
The United Nations condemned the tragic death of Nadā, a twelve-year-old girl from Asyūṭ, who died while getting circumcised by a doctor. The UN said in a statement that they are shocked by senseless deaths like these, which continue to happen in 2020 despite gainful advances to end this harmful...
Date of source: Thursday, July 18, 2019
Amīra, a 15 year old girl from Fayūm, experienced a terrifying nightmare that no one could have ever anticipated.
Date of source: Thursday, April 12, 2012
The lawyers’ team, composed of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), the El Nadim Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and lawyers of the Maspero martyrs’ families, in a press conference at the EIPR headquarters on Wednesday (April 11), said the military judiciary has...
Date of source: Thursday, April 12, 2012
A source in the Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria revealed a split among members of the Millī Council – seven members – over persons most likely to be the next patriarch of Copts in succession of Pope Shenouda III.
Some Copts in the northern Egyptian Mediterranean city now call the Millī Council...
Date of source: Thursday, April 12, 2012
The lawyers’ team, composed of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), the El Nadim Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and lawyers of the Maspero martyrs’ families, in a press conference at the EIPR headquarters on Wednesday (April 11), said the military judiciary has...
Date of source: Thursday, April 12, 2012
A source in the Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria revealed a split among members of the Millī Council – seven members – over persons most likely to be the next patriarch of Copts in succession of Pope Shenouda III.
Some Copts in the northern Egyptian Mediterranean city now call the Millī Council...