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cguybar

What is the Muslim Brotherhood? - CNN.com - 1 views

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  • is a religious and political group founded on the belief that Islam is not simply a religion, but a way of life
  • advocates a move away from secularism, and a return to the rules of the Quran as a basis for healthy families, communities, and states.
  • slamic Sharia (way of life or principles) as the basis controlling the affairs of state and society and working "to achieve unification
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      kristaf on 22 Sep 14
       
      statement of what the Brotherhood initially sought to achieve
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  • Morsy
  • is government failed to keep order as the economy tanked and crime soared, including open sexual assaults on women in Egypt's streets. The chaos drove away many tourists and investors.
    • kristaf
      kristaf on 22 Sep 14
       
      Issues that were attributed to Morsi being in power included:  -increase in crime -issues with the economy  -assaults on women 
  • kristaf on 22 Sep 14
     
    The issues surrounding the brotherhood and the fear surrounding the idea that all of Egypt would be expected to become part of the brotherhood are discussed on this page. The original foundation of the brotherhood was based on the idea of "liberating them from foreign imperialism" as well as forming "unification" as a nation. Issues presented with the brotherhood include: a "poor economic stability or growth, increased crime, and assaults on women."
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  • kristaf on 22 Sep 14
     
    The issues surrounding the brotherhood and the fear surrounding the idea that all of Egypt would be expected to become part of the brotherhood are discussed on this page. The original foundation of the brotherhood was based on the idea of "liberating them from foreign imperialism" as well as forming "unification" as a nation. Issues presented with the brotherhood include: a "poor economic stability or growth, increased crime, and assaults on women."
  • zackellogg on 26 Sep 14
     
    The Muslim Brotherhood is the oldest and largest opposition group group in Egypt. It's members control many of the country's professional organizations.
  • cguybar on 02 Mar 16
     
    This article gives background information regarding who and what the Muslim Brotherhood is. It provides historical significance of the group as well as give suggestions as to why there is interest in learning about the group and their ideals.
aromo0

Does Egypt's new tourist marriage law really 'protect women?' - Al Arabiya English - 0 views

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womens rights egypt money prostitution

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  • While the law is officially being presented as a means to protect the wife’s financial rights, should the husband make the marriage temporary, a large number of activists and rights groups see it as facilitating a disguised form of human trafficking.
  • Women rights activist Nehad Abul Qomsan traced back the progression of the law, or rather “deterioration,” of it.
  • aromo0 on 10 Feb 16
     
    Egypt has a marriage law that requires foreign men to pay a set amount to the woman's family in order to marry her. This is now being seen as a legalized form of prostitution where the women gets nothing but a divorce.
diamond03

Efua Dorkenoo fought against female genital cutting - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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  • Efua Dorkenoo fought against female genital cutting
  • successful 30-year campaign against the tradition of genital cutting of girls and women,
  • Efua Dorkeno
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  • ied Oct. 18 in London. She was 65.
  • Equality Now, a London-based women’s rights organizatio
  • Dorkenoo started organizations to battle genital cutting and co-ordinated the effort more broadly as acting director of women’s health at the World Health Organization in the late 1990s.
  • She wrote articles and an influential book – Cutting the Rose: Female Genital Mutilation (1996) –
  • “warrior in chief
  • “She inspired a generation of feminists across the world to take up the cause of banning the procedure,
  • Last year, the UN General Assembly voted unanimously to recognize female genital cutting as a human-rights violation.
  • British government prosecuted it as a crime for the first time,
  • African-led organization she helped found, The Girl Generation: Together to End FGM, began work this month.
  • practice is declining in many countries
  • teenage girls were less likely to have been cut than older women in half of the 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where the practice is concentrated.
  • In Egypt, where more women have been cut than in any other country, surveys showed that 81 per cent of 15- to 19-year-olds had undergone the practice, compared with 96 per cent of women in their late 40s.
  • Female genital cutting involves pricking, piercing or amputating some or all of the external genitalia
  • vulva is closed, leaving a small hole for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.
  • The practice is believed to have originated about 4,000 years ago in Egypt or the Horn of Africa.
  • 27 countries in Africa
  • Adherents come from a spectrum of faiths, including Christianity, Islam and African religion
  • often ages 4 to 8
  • pathway to womanhood
  • The World Health Organization says female genital cutting has no health benefits and can cause severe bleeding, problems urinating and, later in life, cysts, infections and infertility.
  • intended to reduce women’s sexual pleasure
  • preserve a woman’s virginity until marriage.
  • 125 million women living today in the countries where it is concentrated have experienced such cutting.
  • The mother was so badly scarred, she said, that she could not deliver her baby through natural childbirth.
  • Ms. Dorkenoo began campaigning against the practice in the early 1980s
  • Foundation for Women’s Health and Development to promote the health of African women and girls, with a focus on abolishing female genital cutting
  • co-ordinated national action plans against female genital cutting in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan.
  • In 1994, Queen Elizabeth II named Ms. Dorkenoo an honorary officer in the Order of the British Empire.
  • diamond03 on 03 Nov 14
     
    Efua Dorkenoo recently passed away. She was a women who fought for women's rights and the ban of FGM. She was an inspiration to feminists to take action. 
sgriffi2

UN Women and Egypt - 0 views

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2015/03/08/un-women-provide-5m-jobs-for-egyptian-women/UN Women provide 5 million jobs for Egyptian women by the end of 2020.

#women #egypt

started by sgriffi2 on 29 Mar 15 no follow-up yet
sgriffi2

For women in Egypt, freedom is not free - 1 views

On January 24, 2015, the Egyptian government suddenly decided to prosecute one of the world's most active and effective human rights defenders, Azza Soliman, for denouncing police brutality. Azz...

#women #womensrights #feminism #egypt #equality

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pvaldez2

Is Egypt doing enough to counter widespread sexual harassment? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse ... - 0 views

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  • pvaldez2 on 08 Mar 16
     
    The article is about if Egypt is doing enough to counter widespread sexual harassment. The article also discuss the sexual harassment women faced during the 2011 uprising.
pvaldez2

Egypt Women Against the Coup Marks Women's Day Highlighting Suffering Under Repressive ... - 0 views

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  • pvaldez2 on 22 Mar 16
     
    This article was written during International Women's day and hightlights what women face under repressive regime. "At the hands of the coup regime in Egypt, women suffer horrific crimes including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrest, violent rape, displacement, severe torture (often leading to permanent disability), sham military trials, unjust death sentences, enforced disappearances, brutal degrading treatment of political prisoners' wives and daughters while visiting relatives in the military junta's detention centers."
yperez2

Women's Rights in Ancient Egypt - HowStuffWorks - 0 views

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Egypt Women Rights

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  • yperez2 on 02 Feb 15
     
    In ancient Egypt women were given more opportunity if they where within the upper ranks. If they were in lower class they had less rights but were still allowed to do certain things unlike Greek women.
diamond03

Head of Egypt's council for women slams detained female activists | Middle East Eye - 0 views

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  • Head of Egypt's council for women slams detained female activists
  • Egyptian president of the National Council for Women said a group of jailed female activists were better off behind bars than they were on the outside.
  • pointing out the favourable conditions in which she said female activists are living in Egyptian detention facilities.
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  • torture inside the prisons
  • December 2013, 21 young women were handed prison sentences ranging from 11 to 15 years for assembling on a street in Alexandria.
  • Egypt was handed 300 recommendations by 121 member states
  • While we have four years to address the recommendations given during the session, we will amend the laws as soon as a new parliament is voted in
  • parliamentary elections by March 2015.
  • Women’s rights activists reacted to the interview with dismay.
  • "The statement by the head of Egypt's National Council for Woman, Mervat El-Tallawy, comes as a huge disappointment from a woman who has presented herself throughout her career as a defender of Women's rights,”
  • “Her views represent a serious blow to any hopes that the regime in Egypt will reconsider its oppressive policies against peaceful protesters and NGOs, in line with the recent recommendations made at the UN human rights review
  • diamond03 on 20 Nov 14
     
    The head of Egypt's council made a remark stating that the female activists that were in prions deserved to be there. The comment was shocking to many because Tallaway was a defender of women's rights.
aacosta8

Women in the new Egypt: A cyber-activist's perspective - 0 views

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Women Egypt Cairo Cyberactivism

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  • aacosta8 on 26 Jan 16
     
    Perhaps one of the most memorable facets of Egypt's pro-democracy uprisings earlier this year was the strong presence of women in the (largely peaceful) demonstrations that took place in Cairo's Tahrir Square and in other Egyptian public arenas. This article focuses on gender equality in Egypt and movements by women at the time.
aromo0

Women's Rights in Egypt - 0 views

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womens rights sharia law

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  • yperez2 on 18 Mar 15
     
    Anna Mahjar-Barducci talks about the passing of Khula Law and a law being drafted for marrying young girls as early as 14. Khula law would grant women the right to divorce and the other law would let girls marry young.
  • aromo0 on 10 Feb 16
     
    There were laws going into affect that would propel Egypt into the middle ages. Islamic sharia law was denying women the right to divorce their husbands on their own terms.
sambofoster

POLL-Egypt is worst Arab state for women, Comoros best - 0 views

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Egypt Women Sexual Harassment

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  • sambofoster on 10 Feb 16
     
    Egypt worst for women's rights in poll of 22 Arab states Iraq more dangerous for women than under Saddam Hussein Small steps in Saudi Arabia but women still second class Syria's war and discriminatory laws curtail women's rights Comoros first for giving women political and economic rights LONDON, Nov 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital cutting and a surge in violence and Islamist feeling after the Arab Spring uprisings have made Egypt the worst country in the Arab world to be a woman, a poll of gender experts showed on Tuesday.
aromo0

Behind the Wheel: Egypt's Women Drivers - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

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driving women right egypt

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  • aromo0 on 05 Mar 16
     
    Women in Egypt do not normally drive but Um Waleed has been driving for 30 years. She must face harassment everyday to continue to provide for her family. It includes a documentary.
pvaldez2

How Muslim Women Are Challenging the Status Quo - 0 views

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  • pvaldez2 on 03 Feb 16
     
    This article is about an interview with Katherine Zoepf. In the interview, they talk about her new book "Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World". The book is about her journey to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other Middle Eastern countries. In her journey, she gained rare access to the lives of these young women.
pvaldez2

German Train Operator's New 'Women and Children Only' Cars Prompt Controversy - Fortune - 0 views

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train women only egypt

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  • pvaldez2 on 06 Apr 16
     
    This article talks about Women and Children only trains. The main article is about Germany, but mentions that Egypt also have segregated cars for women.
sgriffi2

Egyptian Women's Day Grief - 0 views

Women in Egypt are facing a reality where hundreds of them find themselves as prisoners in Egyptian prisons, tortured and abused beyond comprehension. Al-Mesryoon reported that as many as 235 wome...

#womensrights #women #feminism #egypt

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sgriffi2

Egyptian Women in Politics - 0 views

http://egypttoday.com/blog/2015/02/23/women-in-parliament-gender-justice-for-egyptian-women/This source is from the news "Egypt Today" and talks about the struggles women still face in trying to vo...

#women #womensrights #egypt #civilrights #vote

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ajonesn

The Story Behind Child Brides in Egypt | Egyptian Streets - 0 views

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child brides egypt

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  • ajonesn on 16 Feb 15
     
    UNCIEF defines marriage under the age of eighteen as child marriage. A survey published by the National Council for Women illustrated that in Egypt the percentage of girls being married before the age of 18.
pvaldez2

Men for Women's Rights: Young SRHR leaders Show the Way | wnn interviews global - 0 views

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  • pvaldez2 on 09 Feb 16
     
    Article is about Desmond Nji Antanga of Cameroon Bamenda spreading the awareness of HIV. The article also discusses Ahmed Taha Aboushady, who is from Egypt. Ahmed is also passionate about sexual and reproductive health services rights (SRHR). He fights gender based violence and is a leader at the Anti-Sexual Harassment Task Force of Egypt.
pvaldez2

Egypt: Why we need to talk more about women's employment - Opinion - Ahram Online - 0 views

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  • pvaldez2 on 29 Mar 16
     
    This article talks about women's employment in Egypt. The author explains that women's employment issues are at the heart of many Egypt's most urgent policy issues.
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