All posts tagged "women’s rights"

Egypt’s Ministry of Social Solidarity announced the opening of a new shelter for battered women in Giza,...

As Egypt is currently preparing to regulate personal status laws, with controversial proposals restricting a woman’s right...

From 25 November until 10 December, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence annual international campaign is...

A Coptic woman won a landmark ruling granting her equal inheritance by the seventh circuit of the...

Most women’s rights defenders in Egypt aren’t  quite preoccupied with the alarmingly low number of statues depicting...

In a culture bound by oppression, Egyptian women never stood a chance in acquiring the same fame,...

  Human rights defenders have been urging Apple and Google to remove the Saudi government app ‘Absher’...

Despite being advised by women’s rights and human rights advocates to cancel her performance in Saudi Arabia,...

The story of the 18-year-old Saudi women who fled her family seeking asylum to reclaim her rights...

Lubna Al Olayan will be the first Saudi woman to operate a financial institution in Gulf region after being appointed chair to a new bank that is a merger of Alawaal Bank and Saudi British Bank (SABB). The upcoming bank will be the third largest bank in the Kingdom. Olayan has been...

Detained Egyptian human rights activist and actress Amal Fathy has been sentenced for 2 years in prison...

In last couple of days, the hashtag #Solidarity_with_Tarif_Alassiri has been gaining momentum on social media in response to...

“I felt like a whole new person,” says Amal, “and I am starting to love myself again....

Earlier this week, 17-year-old Egyptian bride who reportedly escaped from her 37-year-old Saudi husband on the first...

Updated June 2019 In recent years, sexual harassment has been a key social issue in Egypt. In...

An Egyptian woman was harassed in broad daylight in Cairo’s Fifth Settlement on 15 August 2018. The...

International Women’s Day has been celebrated ever since the 1920s. It was originally for women to ask...