October 11, 2016

October 11: Day of the Girl

“Empowerment of and investment in girls are key in breaking the cycle of discrimination and violence and in promoting and protecting the full and effective enjoyment […]
October 10, 2016

COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN

New Woman Foundation Participate in writting the Draft update of General Recommendation No. 19 (1992) on gender based violence against women As The Committee on the […]
October 4, 2016

New study published by New Woman Foundation

  Salwa El Antari, PhD, and Nefissa El Dessouki: Unpaid Labor of Women: Working for the Family in the Informal Economy of Egypt, the New Woman […]
July 2, 2016

New Women Foundation Issued A report on Political Participation of Women in Power and Decision-making Positions.

In the 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), affiliated to the United Nations (UN), after 20 years have passed on the […]
June 29, 2016

Call for support in rejecting amendments to HRC32 draft resolution protecting civil society space

Open Letter to Member States of the UN Human Rights Council 29 June 2016 Your Excellency, We, the undersigned 244 civil society organizations, spanning across all […]
June 29, 2016

TV host Liliane Daoud deported to Lebanon

After hours of announcing that she ended her contract with ONTV on Tuesday, Lebanese-British TV Liliane Daoud host was arrested from her house in front of her […]
June 22, 2016

10 Most Unsafe Countries For Women In The World

By wittyfeed No matter how much we have progress today; the world is still a dangerous place for women. Gender-based discrimination, female foeticide, domestic violence and […]
June 19, 2016

Report of the New Woman Foundation about The state of Egyptian female workers in the industrial sector

The Egyptian government’s adoption of the privatization and structural adjustment policies under the pressure of the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) since 1993 […]
June 19, 2016

Canadian-Iranian professor arrested in Tehran by Revolutionary Guards

The Guardian Iranian authorities have arrested a Canadian-Iranian professor of social anthropology, the latest in a string of cases involving dual nationals which has prompted concern […]
June 14, 2016

Report about sexual harassment at workplace

The New Woman Foundation (NWF) has been involved with the issue of women and work for over a decade, either through the production of action-oriented research, […]
May 31, 2016

Training on the international mechanisms and CEDAW

  In cooperation with the Egyptian CEDAW coalition and the Family Planning Association in Suez, NWF organized a training workshop that was attended by thirty participants […]
May 25, 2016

Feminism is a choice

  Short movie about the history of  “New Women Foundation”