The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s strident statements against women’s rights in areas such as guardianship and domestic violence are reinforcing fears among many Egyptian liberals about the potential consequences of the Brotherhood’s rise to power.
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The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s strident statements against women’s rights in areas such as guardianship and domestic violence are reinforcing fears among many Egyptian liberals about the potential consequences of the Brotherhood’s rise to power.
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In Egypt, the rise of Islamists to power has changed the fabric of society, now sharply split between fundamentalists, who favor the implementation of Islamic law, and moderates including women’s rights advocates who want secular government.
In Egypt, the rise of Islamists to power has changed the fabric of society, now sharply split between fundamentalists, who favor the implementation of Islamic law, and moderates including women’s rights advocates who want secular government.
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Lauren Unger-Geoffroy, an international artist who lives in Cairo, writes about a frightening walk home in the new Egypt.
Lauren Unger-Geoffroy, an international artist who lives in Cairo, writes about a frightening walk home in the new Egypt.
Read her story here: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/dispatches_from_cairo_bragging_about_gang_rape_20130211/
For the first time, Egypt’s state-run National Council for Women has acknowledged sexual assaults on Egyptian female protesters and has called on the government to end sexual harrassment of protesters.
Sexual assaults on Egyptian female protesters have been led by organized gangs, the head of a government-backed women’s rights panel said, in what appears to be the first such acknowledgment by officials relating to crimes that have gained increasing prominence.
“All regulations since the revolution have undermined women’s rights,” said Mervat Tallawy, head of the state-run National Council for Women. “Now is the time we stand united, men and women, to end sexual harassment”.
Read more here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-10/egypt-sexual-assaults-politically-motivated-council-says.html
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Sexual violence in Egypt takes on a political dimension
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Cairo last Tuesday, demanding an end to endemic sexual violence in the country, following comments by one lawmaker that women victims of sexual assaults in Tahrir Square were “100% responsible”. France 24′s Cairo correspondent Sonia Dridi says “Under [former president Hosni] Mubarak, Egyptian women were aware of the risk of rape, but not to the point that they were afraid to walk the streets.”
Link: http://www.france24.com/en/20130213-sexual-violence-egypt-takes-political-dimension
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In the New York Times, Ayaan Hirsi Ali criticizes Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi for his vitriolic rhetoric against Jews.
In the New York Times, Ayaan Hirsi Ali criticizes Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi for his vitriolic rhetoric against Jews.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/opinion/global/ayaan-hirsi-ali-morsis-comments-on-jews.html?_r=1&
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Women’s rights advocates are extremely concerned that Sharia law will play a powerful role in Egypt’s new constitution.
Women’s rights advocates are extremely concerned that Sharia law will play a powerful role in Egypt’s new constitution.
Three articles of the more than 230-article draft mention Shariah directly.
Article 2 states that the “principles of Shariah” are the main source of legislation, the same phrasing as past constitutions.
The vague term “principles” previously gave lawmakers so much leeway that they could almost ignore tenets of Islamic law. As a result, Islamic law largely only governed rules on marriage, divorce and inheritance.
But at the insistence of Salafis, Article 219 was added, defining the principles of Shariah for the first time. It says the principles are based on “general evidence, fundamental rules of jurisprudence, and credible sources accepted in Sunni doctrines and by the larger community.”
The language is obscure, drawn from the terminology of religious scholars and largely incomprehensible to anyone else.
But “it is like a bombshell,” says Mohammed Hassanein Abdel-Al, constitutional law professor at Cairo’s Ain Shams University.
The article means that laws passed by parliament must adhere to specific tenets of Shariah that the four main schools of Sunni Islam agree on. That could include banning interest on loans, forbidding mixing of genders, requiring women to wear headscarves and allowing girls to marry when they reach puberty.
“The doors are wide open to restrict individuals’ freedoms,” Abdel-Al said.
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/charter-enshrining-shariah-core-egypt-crisis-195518388.html
Despite being legally banned, female genital mutilation in Egypt is on the rise, with Islamists pushing to legalize the procedure again.
Despite being legally banned, female genital mutilation in Egypt is on the rise, causing lifelong pains, health problems and even death for the women who undergo it. Islamists are pushing to legalize the procedure again.
Link: http://www.dw.de/it-happens-at-night-genital-mutilation-in-egypt/a-16397510
In Egypt after the revolution, some fear more tolerance of female genital mutilation.
In Egypt after the revolution, some fear more tolerance of female genital mutilation. About 95% of Egyptian women have been genitally mutilated.
Egyptian women fear regression on rights
Egyptian liberal women fear an impending setback to gains women achieved in recent years under Hosni Mubarak, the ousted president, whose efforts to polish the image of his authoritarian regime in western eyes led to an improvement of women’s rights in divorce and child custody cases.
Link: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b203c126-06f5-11e2-92ef-00144feabdc0.html#axzz28oWmGnUA
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