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Keeping women out
Four years after Egypt’s first UPR: The Forum of Independent Egyptian Human Rights NGOs Submits Its Report on Human Rights in Egypt to the UN’s Universal Periodic Review
March 18, 2014Forum of Independent Human Rights Organizations asks Egyptian government to set deadline on the implementation of its pledges; declares One Hundred Days campaign to monitor the seriousness of the government’s commitment
March 24, 2014Sexual violence against women in the public sphere
As the world focuses on political developments, violence against women continues unabated. Attacks against women protesters in Tahrir Square threw the issue of violence against women into the public spotlight.
Yet, sexual harassment and assault is a long-standing and systemic problem in Egypt presenting major obstacles to women’s participation in public life. These crimes are met with almost complete impunity. Successive Egyptian governments have failed to address violence against women,
with serious implications for women’s participation in the political transition of their country.
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