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The committee of the Allard Prize for International Integrity has honored Egyptian women’s rights lawyer and co-founder of the Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA), […]

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has issued a decree allowing women to drive for the first time, to the joy of activists. The Gulf kingdom is the […]

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), Maharat Foundation, and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, in cooperation with IFEX, chose the prominent Lebanese human […]

Egyptian duo Ramy Ashour and Nour El-Sherbini have won the 2017 China Squash Open after beating compatriots Ali Farag and Nouran Gohar respectively. The tournament took place in Shanghai, China from Thursday, August 31 to Sunday, […]

Prepared by Lawyers Niyazi Mustafa and Maha Youssef 2 Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4 Women in the Constitution …………………………………………………………………………………………..6 International conventions ratified by Egypt related to women’s rights……………………………….7 The […]

International Youth Day, commemorated around the world under the 2017 theme “Youth Building Peace” was celebrated today with a special event in Baghdad, Iraq, hosted by […]

New Law Offers Protection, but Needs Funding (Tunis) – The law on violence against women, including domestic violence, approved by the Tunisian parliament on July 26, 2017, is […]

How Gender Biased Are Female-Headed Household Transfers in Egypt? Lobna AbdelLatif, Mohamed Ramadan and Sarah Elbakry  In this paper, we claim that the policy of targeting female-headed households’ […]

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia’s parliament has approved comprehensive new legislation targeting violence against women. The new law, passed July 26, represents a major change from the existing law. […]