Date of source: Thursday, October 17, 2019
When an opportunity presented itself for a seventeen year old female refugee from South Sudan to flee, she took it. However, upon arriving to Cairo, she was imprisoned in a residential apartment for three months where she was repeatedly raped. After this horrifying experience, she discovered that...
Date of source: Thursday, July 18, 2019
Amīra, a 15 year old girl from Fayūm, experienced a terrifying nightmare that no one could have ever anticipated.
Date of source: Saturday, March 3, 2018
Tunisian critic Shukrī Mabkhūt (Shoukry Mabkhout) writes:
Amidst the worldwide campaign on sexual harassment and rape “#MeToo”, a British mother of a six-years-old child accused the famous children’s tale “Sleeping Beauty” claiming that the kiss the handsome prince takes from the beautiful sleeping...
Date of source: Saturday, February 17, 2018
The results of a secret investigation in two incidents of sexual harassment by a potential presidential candidate, Khālid ‘Alī, and rape by another human rights lawyer, Mahmūd Bilāl, have been released after the issue went viral by human rights and women groups on social networking sites a month...
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: Friday, September 2, 2016
Head of Egyptian Mossawāh Center for Consultation and Training, Fat'hī Farīd said that after launching unsuccessful campaigns against sexual harassment, the Center decided to launch a new campaign by recruiting men that advocate the anti-sexual violence women endure on Egyptian streets.
Date of source: Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Center for Egyptian Women Legal Assistance (CEWLA) organized a training workshop for female health and rural pioneers, designed to increase their knowledge and proficiency in a variety of aspects , to discuss all forms of trafficking in women, and to articulate action plans to tackle these offenses...
Date of source: Sunday, October 30, 2016
Egypt's National Council for Women (NCW) announced that the Legislative Committee has completed a draft law on women anti-violence, to be submitted to the Cabinet for approval, before referring it to the House of Representatives.