Date of source: Wednesday, June 9, 2021
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...
Date of source: Friday, May 29, 2015
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...
Date of source: Thursday, April 9, 2015
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...
Date of source: Wednesday, June 3, 2015
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...
Date of source: Friday, May 29, 2015
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...
Date of source: Friday, April 22, 2005
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.
Date of source: Monday, March 21, 2005
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...
Date of source: Saturday, January 22, 2005
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.
Date of source: Thursday, May 27, 1999 to Wednesday, June 2, 1999
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...
Date of source: Thursday, April 29, 1999 to Wednesday, May 5, 1999
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...