All posts tagged "women’s rights"

Television show host Reham Saeed has been taken off air for at least one episode, announced Al-Nahar...

By Aswat Masriya, Edited by Egyptian Streets A Cairo prosecutor released Thursday on EGP 100 bail a man...

By Aswat Masriya Egyptian women were given the right to run for parliament in 1956, making them...

By Mona Ezzat “I can’t say anything so I won’t lose my job,” says Fatma Mohamed, a...

In recent months, there have been a plethora of stories emerging from Egypt, in which women’s clothing...

The spokesperson for Egypt’s Ministry of Education has denied that the government has implemented a ban on...

A controversial decision by human rights organisation Amnesty International to vote in favour of decriminalising sex work...

Egypt’s Minister of Tourism Khaled Abbas Rami has declared that any restaurants or tourism facilities found to...

Fifteen percent of all marriages in Egypt are child marriages, announced Egypt’s Minister of Population Hala Youssef...

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...

The screening of Egyptian filmmaker Mohanad Diab’s short documentary Tahra’s Life at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival...

Egypt’s judiciary has sworn in 26 Egyptian women as presiding judges in the Courts of First Instance....

“How much will we let the occupation affect our lives? What are we supposed to do, stop...

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