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micklethwait

Sexual assault reported in Tahrir Square during Al-Sisi's inauguration: Anti-harassment... - 0 views

www.dailynewsegypt.com/...guration-anti-harassment-group

assault tahrir square inauguration sisi elections

shared by micklethwait on 09 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • micklethwait on 09 Jun 14
     
    This is probably the least triggering article on this subject.
yperez2

Dancing for women's rights - Daily News Egypt - 0 views

www.dailynewsegypt.com/...dancing-womens-rights

Women Rights Egypt women dancing

shared by yperez2 on 02 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • yperez2 on 02 Feb 15
     
    Women do a flash mob to bring attention to women rights. Many went to support the event, it was form of expression to get more supporters and stop sexual harassment.
yperez2

Statistics- Academic and community studies - 0 views

www.stopstreetharassment.org/...statistics-academic-studies

shared by yperez2 on 17 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • yperez2 on 17 Mar 15
     
    This is a study that provides statistics from different locations around the world for sexual harassment. Among those included are the US, Egypt, and Canada.
diamond03

Tradition of female genital mutilation persists in Egypt - SFGate - 0 views

www.sfgate.com/...utilation-persists-5904358.php

tradition female genital egypt revolution politics

shared by diamond03 on 19 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Tradition of female genital mutilation persists in Egypt
  • Raslan Fadl, the first doctor in Egypt to be put on trial for committing female genital mutilation
  • still practicing
  • ...28 more annotations...
  • Residents call him a well-respected figure in the community, known for his charity work.
  • could not be determined whether any were at his office for “circumcision
  • Fadl’s continued popularity demonstrates the challenges to curbing the practice in Egypt,
  • 90 percent of
  • key precedent for deterring doctors and families in the future.
  • criminalized in 2008,
  • Sunni Muslim religious authority has declared it dangerous and without any religious justification
  • slow reduction in the rate of the practice but that it is still widespread.
  • A verdict is expected Thursday in Fadl’s trial
  • two years in prison.
  • one of the highest rates in the world
  • s little outcry against the practice.
  • nothing happened to them.”
  • without it, a girl would be “sexually voracious,”
  • dangerous for her”
  • Muslims and Christians,
  • Genital mutilation involves removing all or part of the clitoris and labia minora
  • 29 countries,
  • “purification.
  • cleanliness or to prevent a girl’s sexual desire from running out of control.
  • ncircumcised daughter will be unable to marry
  • Social pressure is strong:
  • not easy getting the landmark case to trial
  • Soheir’s family initially filed a police report saying she died as a result of the mutilation but changed their story after reconciling with the doctor
  • Prosecutors were slow, preferring “for the matter to end
  • latest survey, conducted in 2008, showed 91 percent for women age 15 to 49 have undergone the procedure.
  • 15 to 17, the rate is down to 74 percent,
  • ore families are deciding to forgo it.
aromo0

'Circles of hell': Domestic, Public and State Violence Against Women in Egypt | Amnesty... - 0 views

www.amnestyusa.org/...iolence-against-women-in-egypt

womens rights egypt domestic state violence

shared by aromo0 on 24 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • aromo0 on 24 Feb 16
     
    Women in Egypt face an overwhelming amount of violence; both domestic and state violence. Attacks are usually sexually driven and degrading.
pvaldez2

Five ways tech is crowdsourcing women's empowerment | Global Development Professionals ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...owdsourcing-womens-empowerment

tech crowdsourcing network Egypt women

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  • pvaldez2 on 09 Feb 16
     
    Article describes how tech is crowdsourcing women's empowerment. What tech is doing for these women is allowing them to enter their own data than relying on institutional datasets. Examples are them crowdsourcing data on street harassment, reporting sexual harassment and violence, and finding respectful gynecologists.
ccfuentez

Report: 600,000 forced labor victims in Middle East - CNN.com - 0 views

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forced labor poorly educated physical violence sexual violence Kuwait

shared by ccfuentez on 10 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Millions of migrant workers flood to the Middle East from some of the world's poorest countries in search of paid work they won't find at home.
  • But for some, the journey doesn't end as they hope. Instead, they become victims of human trafficking, forced labor and sexual exploitation.
  • "They were lured into jobs that either didn't exist or that were offered under conditions that were very different from what they were promised in the first place," she said.
  • ccfuentez on 10 Feb 16
     
    People who are usually poorly educated and have limited financial resources in the Middle East typically find themselves falling victims to forced labor and human trafficking. The people are taken to private homes and confined, beaten, and raped by their employers.
sambofoster

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

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Egypt Women Sexual Harassment

shared by sambofoster on 10 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • 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.
pvaldez2

Egypt struggles to stop violence against women | WWLP.com - 0 views

wwlp.com/...to-stop-violence-against-women

egypt violence women rights

shared by pvaldez2 on 02 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • pvaldez2 on 02 Mar 16
     
    The article is about the violence and sexual harassment women face in Egypt. In the article they interviewed one victim, Shorouk El Attar.
ccfuentez

https://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/Country_profiles/Middle_East_North_Af... - 0 views

www.unodc.org/...Middle_East_North_Africa.pdf

Algeria human trafficking illegal children prosecute

shared by ccfuentez on 21 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • ccfuentez on 21 Mar 16
     
    The Algerian government does not recognize human trafficking an illegal offense. Instead Algerian authorities use the offenses of "hiding and exchange of children", "abuse of job authority to sexually exploit others", "forced prostitution" and others to prosecute some forms of trafficking in persons.
mcooka

61.1% of Moroccan Students in Favor of Sex Education in High Schools - 0 views

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sex education morocco middle east

shared by mcooka on 07 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • The survey focused on “youth identity,” and the relation to sexuality
  • lthough 61.1% of the polled students expressed their support for sex education in high schools, 70% of Moroccan students agree that sexual intercourse before marriage is “immoral.
  • ccording to Hakim Hdidou, consultant and director of The Survey Project, the survey polls have lasted 10 months, and have targeted 5,236 students in private and public high schools, in urban and rural areas of all the regions of Morocco.
  • mcooka on 07 Apr 16
     
    This article looked at the students view  on sex education in Morocco. 61% of students feel that there should be sex education in schools. 70% of students believed sex before marriage is immoral. This is an article which looks at how education and culture can clash.
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