With less focus on family planning and contraception for women, the birth rate continues to rise greatly. Many policies that have helped control the growing population in the past, are seemingly vanishing.

Divorce in Egyptian culture is shunned. Women do not get a choice to divorce, and many still do not get a choice of who they are marrying. This is a human rights issue that is happening in other nations in the Middle East.

Iraq has proposed laws to make it more difficult for women to get a divorce, receive birth control, marrying laws with children. These are very similar laws that are happening in Iran.

Laws in Iran are being discussed to make divorce harder for women, jobs harder to find if women do not have children, and contraception more difficult to attain. Women are merely being degraded to "baby making machines."

Equality does not mean justice for women in Egypt, according to some.

Meem, an average girl of no particular age or political and religious views, started speaking the minds of local women.

Although this video is from a few years ago, it does a good job of putting women being harassed into perspective.

Egyptian authorities are allegedly whitewashing evidence in the wake of the deaths of 27 people during protests last week.

In an exhibition titled Im Not a Doll, Palestinian artist Rima El-Mozayyen displays paintings evoking a panorama of women's issues, on display in Art Lounge until 27 February

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has made some gestures toward women, though his overall human rights record remains controversial.

CAIRO (AP) An Egyptian appeals court on Monday convicted a doctor of manslaughter and performing female genital mutilation that led to the death of a 13-year-old girl, sentencing him to two years and three months in prison in the country's first case that came to trial over the widespread practice, defense lawyers said.

world, Egypt subjected women to virginity tests - CNN Video

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.

A group of young men and women in Egypt are getting together to put matters into their own hands. The UNDP is developing programs and solutions to help solve the major problems of women's rights in Egypt today. This is a great article to see what the younger population is doing compared to the older generation and government.

Video-- Why Egypt is struggling, and failing to protect women from devastating violence nation-wide.

Lack of political freedom and poor education is a shocking reality for women in Egypt.

This video demonstrates how the women's right's campaign has been affected due to the Arab Spring, especially in Egypt.

I thought this article was interesting in contrast to today's viewings on women's rights in Egypt. Women in ancient Egypt had similar and nearly all the same rights as men, which is quite the opposite today.

Egypt is now the worst country for women's rights in the Arab world, according to a poll of experts on gender issues in 22 Arab states.