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Date of source: Saturday, January 13, 2018
Despite political and societal efforts made to protect women’s rights and solve their deep-seated family problems, women's and human rights organizations believe they are still in an inferior, or at least an unfair, position in the face of violence, underage marriage, FMG, harassment and political...
Date of source: Friday, December 7, 2018
Recently published by the Dār al-Battāna Publication House are two books of the Egyptian thinker and writer Dr. Khālid Muntaṣir. The two books titled ‘Lakum Salafkum wa Lī Salafī’ (You have your own predecessors and I have mines), and the second book ‘Al-Khitān wa al-ʿUnf ḍid akl-Marʾah (‘Female...
Date of source: Thursday, November 8, 2018
A recent study revealed that female genital mutilation, better known under its acronym FGM, has dropped significantly across much of Africa. According to research data, the decline of FGM surgeries performed on girls around 14 years old is due to the effectiveness of the anti- FGM campaigns.
Date of source: Thursday, December 7, 2017
7 December 2017, by Jasper A. Kiepe and Salma Khamis
This article is the second installment in a three-part series: In the first article, we gave an overview on the situation in Egypt with respect to sexual harassment, and violence against women more generally. In this piece, we examine the...
Date of source: Thursday, October 26, 2017
About the Authors:
Mette Toft Nielsen completed her M.A. degree in Culture, Communication and Globalization in Aalborg University, Denmark in 2013. Nielsen began her career at the Center for Arab-West Understanding, researching the reasons why people choose to emigrate for her M.A. thesis....
Date of source: Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Danish researcher Mette Toft Nielsen, former CAWU intern and main author of the book Women in Post- Revolutionary Egypt: Can Behavior Be Controlled? (withPeter Hervik, 2017) held a book launch event on the 21st of October, 2017, in the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute in Zamalek, Cairo.
Date of source: Sunday, April 30, 2017
The Coptic woman's ambition never ends; she is tireless, and never gives up trying to get her rights, especially in facing the church’s legacy of dominance over women’s affairs.
Date of source: Saturday, February 4, 2017
The final statement of the Conference of Doctors against FGM confirmed the dangers and bad health effects resulting from complications of circumcision in both the short and long term.
The statement, issued on Friday, said that the practice of FGM violates human dignity, and the physical and...
Date of source: Monday, August 29, 2016
Vice President of the Egyptian Association for the Assistance of Juveniles and Human Rights (EAAJHR), Rabāb `Abdū, praised the draft law proposed by the government on the severe penalties imposed in cases of female genital mutilation (FGM), which stipulates that in cases of permanent disability...
Date of source: Sunday, October 23, 2016
In its investigative report published on Friday, Al-Bawāba writes "the latest victims of FGM was a girl from Al-Beheira who was saved just in time, as she was severely bleeding for days after she had the cut at a private clinic at night.
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