NWRC

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. […]

2 AUG 2017 UPDATE: SUCCESS! Following the Lower House of Parliament’s historic 1 August vote for the full repeal of Article 308 from Jordan’s Penal Code, today the Senate approved […]

Women human rights defenders in Bahrain who have been tortured in Bahrain have been subjected to further persecution to stop them from working. In two separate […]

Key Reforms to Male Guardianship System Still Needed (Beirut) – Saudi Arabia’s reversal of its longstanding ban on sports for women and girls in public schools is […]

This story by Joyce Hackel originally appeared on PRI.org on June 14, 2017. It is republished here as part of a partnership between PRI and Global Voices. When Manal al-Sharif posted a […]

On 04 June 2017 at about 3pm local time, Saudi security forces at King Fahd International Airport in Dammam arrested and detained women’s driving activist Loujain […]

Only one in four men in the Arab world and the Middle East believes in gender equality and equal opportunities for men and women, according the […]

The Women in News Editorial Leadership Award recognises an exemplary contribution of an Editor to her newsroom – and under her leadership the contribution of her […]