Egyptian women working as maids in Saudi Arabia constitutes human trafficking, Talawy
Posted by: Amed Agour
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2013-04-23 02:46:26 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Egypt - Head of the National Council for Women Mervat Talawy has sent two letters to ministers of manpower and interior inquiring about a permission by them allowing Egyptian women to work as housemaids in Saudi Arabia. Talawy's letters came...
Aliaa Vs. Arabs
Posted by: Amed Agour
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2013-02-07 17:44:43 -0800 | humanitarian-news
Egyptian feminist activist Aliaa Magda el-Mahdy has posed naked twice protesting against the flesh taboo in Arab societies, and the Islamic Sharia-inspired Egyptian constitution. She first appeared naked on her blog in a pose I read as “this is my...
Street Children...Who can save them?
Posted by: abeer almadawy
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2013-04-20 15:37:56 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Written by Abeer Almadawy Cairo How can forgive ourselves after we know that there are millions of children are facing poverty with their naked bodies and hungry stomachs while they are suffering from extreme cold? Karim and Hani are 2...
The problem with Hijab
Posted by: Amed Agour
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2013-02-02 15:22:34 -0800 | humanitarian-news
These mini tents Muslim women put on their heads are meant to preserve their virtue, or so they say. It is, supposedly, stipulated by their holy book among many other measures to help Muslim men control their horniness. Moderates to...
Ittihadiya viciously beaten man says police saved his life
Posted by: Amed Agour
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2013-02-04 11:57:32 -0800 | humanitarian-news
Egypt– Ahmed Saber, a 48 years old construction worker, and the man in the recently notorious battery video has completely refused to accuse police forces of beating him, saying he had only sustained a bird shot to the leg. After...
Islamist makes out with girl in public, girl gets three months jail time
Posted by: Amed Agour
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2013-01-20 14:40:12 -0800 | humanitarian-news
Egypt, January 20 – Nesreen Ramadan has turned herself in to do her time. Nesreen is the girlfriend of Salafist Ali Wanees, a member of Egypt's dissolved parliament. She was found guilty of cuddling with Wanees in public and sentenced...
Egypt's NCW dubs "girls parliament" sexist
Posted by: Amed Agour
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2013-01-14 08:33:00 -0800 | humanitarian-news
Egypt – The National Council for Women (NCW) has described the girls parliament venture, currently being carried out by Youth Ministry, as the beginning of implementing discrimination based on gender, the thing that is completely rejected by the Council. "Separating...
Egyptian Education Ministry, KFW sign agreement to build Upper Egypt schools
Posted by: Amed Agour
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2013-01-12 05:02:52 -0800 | humanitarian-news
Egyptian –The German development bank is granting Egypt 30 million euros to erect and furnish schools in Upper Egypt, according to an agreement with the Egyptian Education Ministry. The Ministry's Advisor for International Cooperation Emad el-Baaly has said that each...
Talawy: NCW Friends arms wide open to women's rights activists
Posted by: Amed Agour
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2013-01-05 06:13:10 -0800 | humanitarian-news
Egypt - Friends of the National Council for Women is a new foundation that aims at launching small to micro enterprises and literacy classes to help able women in need, Head of the National Council for Women Mervat Talawy said....
NCW: Constitution draft is anti-women
Posted by: Amed Agour
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2013-03-10 17:02:28 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Egypt, December 11 – The constitution draft about to be put to vote Saturday misses the pivotal stipulations needed to protect women and children, the two most vulnerable classes to human rights violation in the Egyptian society, National Council for...
NCCM: All ranks of society responsible for protecting children
Posted by: Amed Agour
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2012-12-09 05:56:49 -0800 | humanitarian-news
Egypt, December 9 – In these times of contingencies, the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood calls upon all Egyptians to keep minors out of confrontations of any ilk. NGOs located at areas of clashes have to act effectively and...
Anti-woman specter haunts Arab states
Posted by: Amed Agour
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2012-11-26 08:56:55 -0800 | humanitarian-news
Egypt, November 26 – The teachings and practices of fundamentalists and misogynists ruling most Arab states now have contributed magnificently to augmenting the atrocious practices against women, Arab Lawyers Association (ALA) said in a statement Monday. Underage marriage and female...
Qandahartution: Legal experts on the "anti-women" Egyptian constitutional draft
Posted by: Amed Agour
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2012-10-30 13:24:01 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Egypt, October 30 – Legal experts, intellectuals and activists have rejected the articles on women in the constitutional draft and said that they are subjugating and degrading. A constitution based on the published draft would deny women and girls, who...
The monster of sexual harassment robs girls of Eid joy in Egypt
Posted by: Amed Agour
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2012-10-28 13:39:07 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Egypt, October 28 - One hundred and sixty five women and girls were physically or verbally sexually attacked in Cairo, Giza and Luxor during the first two days of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha. Seven other reports of rape and...
Can't touch this: Discrimination against Christian medical students in Egypt
Posted by: Amed Agour
Cairo :: Egypt | updated 2012-10-25 15:19:03 -0700 | humanitarian-news
Egypt, October 26 - Up close it’s not that attractive. If it’s infected or soaked in blood the vagina looks even more repugnant. And besides, students don’t join medical school and spend seven years of their lives exerting their brains...
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