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5. Women's meeting to face loss of privileges by Islamists, Sharaf

Mon, 2011-08-01 16:03 — Diana

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Year: 
2011
Week: 
31
Article number: 
4
Article pages: 
2
Date of source: 
August 1, 2011
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Reviewer: 
Diana Maher Ghali
Article summary: 

 Tahrir square and other revolution squares are filled with women demanding their privileges, meanwhile, Islamists [mainly salafists, al-Jamā'ah al-Islāmīyah and the Muslim Brotherhood party] are preparing their upcoming legislative agenda.

The laws, concerning women, drummed up interest from political Islam movements, especially the divorce law [al-Khol'], al-Ro'yah law [visitation or contact law, regulating the visits of a non-custodial parent for his/her child], and personal status law. Al-Ro'yah law was the most firmly rejected.

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 Women started holding previously unannounced meetings to face attacks over giving them their privileges under the pretext that these privileges were given to them by the former first lady Suzanne Mubārak.

Feminist figures met with Dr. 'Isām Sharaf, Prime Minister, but refused his suggestion to change the National Council for Women Rights to a commission affiliated to the Cabinet, as they want it to be affiliated to the Presidency.

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