CAIRO – 8 November 2021: A new step towards combating sexual harassment was adopted in Egypt by introducing awareness curriculum for fourth grade for the first time, educating children how to protect themselves from the abuse. Although the move was...اقرأ المزيد
Egyptian House of Representatives gave a final approval to a draft law to toughen sexual harassment penalty so that it is treated before the law as a felony instead of a misdemeanor. The draft law includes amendments submitted by the representative of...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW) has received three cases of sexual harassment against two ladies and a girl during the first two days of Eid al-Adha, said the council in a statement on Monday. In Minya govenorate, Upper Egypt, a father...اقرأ المزيد
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi responded on Tuesday to a Thomson Reuters Foundation poll that named the Egyptian capital Cairo as the most dangerous megacity for women. He refuted that Cairo is the worst city for women and questioned the reliability...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt’s highest women’s rights body has filed a complaint to the top prosecutor seeking legal action against a lawyer who called for the raping of women who wear ripped jeans. Nada Draz of the state National Council for Women told The Associated Press...اقرأ المزيد
Twenty-eight police reports were filed in Cairo and Giza over sexual harassment on Sunday, which marked the first day of Eid al-Fitr (Lesser Bairam) in Egypt. According to investigations, twenty of the reports were cases of verbal harassment. There was...اقرأ المزيد
