All posts tagged "sexual harassment"

Sexual harassment is among Egypt’s most persistent issues which women and girls have had to endure at...

By Sama el-Feky On Saturday June 6, the Heya Masr Initiative celebrated the graduation of fifteen girls...

A video showing a policewoman arresting a sexual harasser outside a cinema in Cairo has gone viral...

Egypt’s police have arrested 84 individuals during the first two days of Eid al-Fitr in Cairo for...

By Omnia Talal Tuktuk driver Mohamed Shaaban was contacted by a civil society organisation, offering him a...

HarrassMap – a volunteer-based initiative aiming to tackle sexual harassment in Egypt – has launched the country’s...

An Egyptian court has sentneced a policeman to life in prison for the rape of a 17-year-old...

In the bustling streets of Cairo, with its echoing noises of life and its pounding stories of...

Egypt’s Ministry of Interior commenced on Sunday a new national strategy aimed at combating violence against women...

In an effort to crackdown on violence against women and sexual harassment, the National Council of Women...

Amira, 26, commutes to work every day by bus. “Most of the time it is too crowded...

“Be a man.” That is the primary slogan of Birell, a beer company which came to the...

There are plenty of hard-to-miss signs to tell that Mother’s Day is approaching. For instance, advertisements for...

In the past few years, Egypt’s streets haven’t been the most welcoming of spaces to women of...

There is no doubt that violence against women (VAW) is a major challenge in Egypt, in all...

Life in Egypt has changed for women. How they are perceived, treated and addressed have skewed dramatically....

By Leia Walker, Egyptian Streets Microbuses: beasts of the street, rulers of the road; and much like...