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Anti-Coup Alliance protests against “vindictive violations” against women
The group has dubbed this Friday’s protest, “Egyptian women are a red line.”
The German-Arab Chamber of Commerce trains 1,000 women
GACIC and ILO will train women over a year before they are offered a one-year job contract by employers
French woman reported missing in Egypt
Airport security had escorted the woman to the nearby four-star Baron hotel after she landed.
Saudi women ‘drive-in’ falters amid threats
One of the videos uploaded to YouTube shows a woman cloaked in black and wearing dark sunglasses driving a car in an area of the Saudi capital, apparently without being stopped.
Saudi warns women against defying driving ban
Activists have called on social networks for Saudi women to go behind the wheel on Saturday, in a campaign in the world’s only country that bans women from driving
Ana Hunna: Tweet to support Women Bread Winners
Join the Twitter discussion on Saturday looking at the obstacles that face female breadwinners in Egypt
Educate girls to alleviate poverty
By Dr Cesar Chelala Inequality and unequal access to education holds millions of girls and women back across the world. While the “gender gap” in education has narrowed over the past decade, girls are still at a disadvantage, particularly in getting access to high school education. And women still constitute two-thirds of the world’s illiterate …
The dirty word
By Nesreen Salem On behalf of the Egyptian Women’s Union, I flew to Sweden to give a speech about Egyptian women’s plight in Egypt after the “spring”. I was a keynote speaker on a panel in the very heart of Swedish parliament. My audience included representatives from every political party in Sweden as well as …
Tunisia police rape trial adjourned
The defence had asked for a doctor to conduct a psychiatric examination of the woman.
On Egyptian women after the Arab Spring
Nesreen Salem’s speech for the Swedish Parliament on the state of Egyptian women
The land of few men
This is what I have dubbed Egypt years ago, to the chagrin of some of my guy friends and agreement of others. Egypt-mostly- is not a very healthy society with regards to interaction between women and men. A clear example is simply walking down the street; cat-calls, sexual insinuation and at times groping are the …
Women’s groups meet to discuss constitution
Child marriage and seats in parliament among topics discussed
Saudi women call for new day of defiance against driving ban
“Many women are enthusiastic about learning to drive, or to teach other” women how to drive, she said, as many Saudi women have obtained abroad the driving licences they are denied in their homeland.
There will be no progress
There will be no progress, as long as we keep repeating the same mistakes, as long as hypocrisy and lies are the name of the game, as long as no real change happens. There will be no progress in the Tourism industry, as long as our government continues to believe that it is a “marketing” …
JUSTICE IN INDIA
By Dr Cesar Chelala The conviction of four men in India, accused of gang rape and the murder of a young Indian woman was widely celebrated throughout the country. Although the conviction is seen as a just and necessary punishment of the young rapists, many women are sceptical that it will lead to a new era in …
The future for Egypt’s women is in legislations, experts say
Experts say much depends on how women are to be addressed in constitution, currently being amended
Sudan woman risks flogging to protest ‘Taliban’-like law
Amira Osman Hamed faces a possible whipping if convicted at a trial which could come on September 19.
Egypt’s underground sisterhood
What the post-revolutionary Islamist and conservative onslaught against Egyptian women distorts is the growing strength of Egypt’s feminist counter-culture and grassroots female emancipation. Surveying Egypt’s political landscape, you might be excused for thinking that women are a minority. Only five members of the Committee of 50 tasked with revising the constitution are women. Unsurprisingly, this …
Constituent Assembly’s female representation shows poor quantity, good quality: women’s rights activists
Prominent columnist and journalist Farida El Shoubashy said that the number of seats allocated for female members is not sufficient, but the five members chosen are “heavy-weight.”
Constituent Assembly make-up draws mixed reactions
Islamists decry lack of sufficient representation in amending constitution
Norwegian woman ‘nervous, tense’ as she risks UAE jail
Marte Dalelv, 24, said she remained hopeful that she would succeed in an appeal against the ruling by a Dubai court that convicted her this week of extramarital sex, perjury and consuming alcohol without a licence.
Deadly clashes in Mansoura
Clashes leave three women dead and seven people injured
Rights group coalition calls for women’s representation in new constitution
The coalition released a joint statement calling on the president and government to takes steps ensure justice for women
Moving forward to end violence against women
By Lakshmi Puri Last year, as rebels captured the main towns in Northern Mali, UN Women registered a sudden and dramatic increase of rapes in the first week of the takeover of Gao and Kidal, places where most women never report this kind of violence to anyone, not even health practitioners. We heard stories of …
Group: At least 17 new cases of sexual assault reported on Monday
Operation Anti Sexual Harassment holds presidency and government responsible for sexual attacks; UN’s Ban Ki Moon voices concern over sexual violence committed at protests
Dozens of sexual assaults reported in Tahrir
Unprecedented number of sexual assault cases reported amid 30 June’s mass protests
Human Rights, post revolution: One Year in Power
Human rights, post revolution
Anti-Harassment groups gear up for 30 June protests
Five cases of harassment on Friday, one of them a foreign correspondent
Rights group urges women to defend themselves on 30 June
Women are urged to use industrial needles for self defence if harassed
Children’s rights coalition denounces state stance on FGM
The Egyptian Coalition for Children’s Rights described the practice as a crime against humanity