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Saudi Arabia’s latest decision to permit women to live independently without a male guardian opens the door for many Egyptian women to pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia by themselves.  However, experts confirmed to Akhbār al-Yawm that according to Egyptian law, women younger than 40 years are obliged to...
Hudā Badrān, the President of the General Council for Egyptian Women, condemned the campaign to disgrace women who do not wear the hijāb. The campaign is spreading over social media and is set to take place throughout Ramadan. Badrān criticized the campaign, saying that it contradicts the 2014...
 Head of the Women Union warns against jeopardizing women’ seats in elections Hudā Badrān, head of the Women Union during the third community talk around the issue of the amendment of election laws, asked for immediate elections to be held as soon as possible. She confirmed her commitment to the...
Badrān: Personal status laws are creating a new generation of children on the streets Doctor Hudā Badrān, the President of the Egyptian Women’s Union, said that Personal Status Laws are most focused on the role of the family, adding that the laws treat women as they were treated decades ago. She...
Women of Egypt: Campaign stigmatizing women who do not wear the hijāb is a dangerous escalation Hudā Badrān, the President of the General Council for Egyptian Women, condemned the campaign to disgrace women who do not wear the hijāb. The campaign is spreading over social media and is set to take...
Heated discussions are taking place in the National Council for Women and some non-governmental organizations to propose amendments to articles 237 and 277 of the penal code, which differentiate between a husband and his wife in case of adultery.
Al-Usbou‘ of March 14, 2005 has severely attacked without any sense of decorum the organizations that received a one-million-dollar grant from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. The paper even accused recipients of the grant of “betraying the nation” and the ministry of social affairs of slackness as to...
A demographic survey conducted in the late 1990s showed that half of Egyptian women have been battered at least once during the year that preceded the research while statistics on honor killings in Egypt from 1998 till 2001 showed that 79% of these crimes are the result of sheer doubts.
The unprecedented rise in the number of Urfi marriages among university students has prompted the Islamic Research Academy to condemn the practice as illegitimate. However, if all Urfi marriages become illegal (haram) as stipulated in the statement made by the IRA, this could block one of the most...
It is certain that there will be fewer marriage proposals made by rapists to their victims, now that the People’s Assembly has approved the annulment of clause 291 of the Penal Code, which waives aside criminal charges against a rapist if he offers to marry his victim. The removal of the clause is...
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