Maybe Egypt should borrow a mantra from the United States: don’t ask, don’t tell. Egyptians rarely – if ever – ask about crimes against women, so when Samira Ibrahim took her case against the military over being subjected to horrific, unthinkable “virginity tests” in downtown Cairo last March, most in the country turned the other [...]
Conservative American radio host Rush Limbaugh is hardly the first man to shout “Slut! Prostitute!” at an uppity woman. I’ve been called these words repeatedly in Egypt. Facing relentless sexual insults on the streets of Cairo, I’ve felt lucky to be from America where men in public today are generally better behaved. So it was [...]
CAIRO: Egypt presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi said that Egyptian women demonstrate “more sacrifice in the political role, but they face great injustice.” His comments come as he pushes on in his bid to win Egypt’s top job in the first post-uprising election, scheduled to take place in May, with nominations and campaigning to begin in [...]
CAIRO: This year, the British Council has chosen to mark International Women’s Day, by organising a conference followed by a series of workshops to learn about the tools and the best practise in raising awareness about gender issues. The conference will also present case studies for successful awareness-raising campaigns. The event will take place in [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s political groups have professed a claim to uphold human rights in the country, but are failing on ensuring women’s rights and ending the use of the death penalty in the country, said Amnesty International on Monday. The London-based rights group said that although most of the large political parties in the country claim [...]
DUBAI: Mona Hamid left Saudi Arabia 8 years ago for a career in marketing in Dubai. Now, the mother of two and a career woman is fighting back against what she calls the archaic practice of male guardianship in her home country. “When I wanted to leave Saudi Arabia after university, I had to get [...]
CAIRO: She may be aging, but the Arab world’s most prominent feminist has lost none of her spunk. Her fierce look attracts attention as she sits calmly in her chair, rattling off answer upon answer to any question thrown her way. She is a woman who has spent her life in the service of the [...]
CAIRO: In an attempt to fight gender injustice in Egypt, the National Council for Human Rights agreed to start a committee for women’s rights. The decision came on Tuesday and assigned Mervat Tellawy as the chairman. Tellawy was the UN deputy and the executive head of the ESCWA. She is the first female diplomat to [...]
Four Saudi Arabian female student were banned from attending their exams for “wearing tight skirts” on the school premises, the Emarati 24 News reported. In October of last year, Saudi Arabia warned its female students against wearing tight clothes in school, which according to officials, breaks the school codes and goes against Islamic teachings. “All [...]
A Saudi Arabian education ministry official was convicted of sexual harassment and blackmail and sentenced to five years in prison, 3,000 lashes and fine of three million Riyals ($800,000) this week. The official, whose was unnamed in Saudi press, took advantage of his high position in the ministry of education in the ultra-conservative kingdom, to [...]
ANKARA: Turkish women were among the first in Europe to exercise political rights with the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1924, but 87 years later Turkey ranks 122nd of the 135 countries in the 2011 Global Gender Gap Index. Women’s rights in Turkey have a complicated track record. Turkish women gained many [...]
CAIRO: Despise Aliya Mahdy or not, she has done what few revolutionaries in Egypt have been able to do: take revolutionary action. Her public display of her naked body in a blog post has seen attacks from the conservative Islamists and the liberals alike. Nudity, especially female nudity, leaves people queasy. Had she been a [...]
Warning: the following is as an account of one woman’s experience; although it does highlight some major issues in Yemen in regards to Family Laws and Gender Equality it is not a reflection of the Yemeni society as a whole but rather the failure of a system to protect the most vulnerable. Amal Hassan’ story [...]
CAIRO: As ski season approaches in Tehran, Iranian women will now have to be accompanied by a male as they carve down the slopes of Iran’s numerous ski resorts, according to the Washington Post. A recent police circular stated that male family member must now accompany female skiers, be it her husband, father, or brother. [...]
RABAT: According to a recent study by Morocco’s High Commission for Planning, the national institute for statistical analysis, 68 per cent of Moroccan women have experienced domestic violence and 48 per cent have been subjected to psychological abuse. This is a shocking statistic and reveals how much more there is still left to be done [...]
An Afghani mother and her young daughter were stoned and shot to death on Thursday for “adultery and moral deviation” in the town of Ghazni, in the eastern part of the country. Security officials told the BBC that the armed men carried out the execution while the residents of the town abstained from intervening or [...]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will depart on Saturday for an official visit to Bangladesh, Thailand and Indonesia to highlight advances in the three Asian nations on women’s and children’s health. Ban will showcase the progress and leadership of these countries in the context of the “Every Woman Every Child” effort he initiated last year, according to [...]
DUBAI: Women’s rights activists are worried that the Kuwaiti government is attempting to cover up an assault of a woman inside the country’s ministry of interior. According to one woman who works inside a government ministry and privvy to details, speaking to Bikyamasr.com on condition of anonymity, the government has tried to silence reports on [...]
CAIRO: The Bahrain interior ministry announced its arrest of Ashwaq al-Muqabi, a Bahraini protest organizer, following her clearance by the hospital treating her for sickle cell disease. Al-Muqabi has been sentenced to six months in prison and will serve her time in an all-female prison where she will be monitored by medical staff. The Bahraini [...]
CAIRO: An Egyptian teenager was killed in the city of Mansoura, in the Nile Delta region, on Wednesday after sexually harassing two girls in a public park. The victim, a 16 year-old student, had harrassed two young girls while they were on a walk in a public park, using an electric tazer, which made the [...]
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