Egyptian have launched an online campaign to raise awareness about the plight of female prisoners especially during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

As a woman detainee waited to learn her fate, another detainee arrived on her period. “She had been disappeared for 3 days and didn’t have a personal bag or anything with her. So when she first arrived she was drenched in her blood. She was a total mess and her …

March is truly a month for Egyptian women. While the world celebrates International Women’s Day on March 8, Egyptian Women’s Day falls on March 16, when women took to the streets in the first mass demonstration against British colonialism during the revolution of 1919. 

A television report reviewed several cases of human rights violations against hundreds of Egyptian female detainees documented by international reports and highlighting the suffering of the families of these detainees amid the silence of the National Council for Human Rights, the National Council for Women and other women’s rights bodies …

Marriage at an early age is one of the most serious social problems in various Arab and African countries as it represents a form of violence against women.

“When I am at work and my husband is at home, he cleans, tidies up and takes care of our daughter,” begins Baghita Hussein, inside their small scarcely furnished flat in a dense  Cairo neighbourhood.

An Egyptian court has ordered the release of human rights activist Amal Fathy, who has been jailed since May after she criticised the Egyptian authorities’ response to sexual harassment in the country, her lawyer said.

Sexual harassment towards women in Egypt is notorious. It is almost impossible to walk down a street in Cairo without being whistled at, whispered, tooted, or catcalled, and Egyptian women, regardless of their clothes or hijab know this. And since women began uploading their experiences to YouTube, Egypt has gained an …

In France, 53 percent of women in 2017 were found to have been victims of sexual harassment. In America, it was 60 percent, and in Sweden, it was 64 percent percent.

Across the last two weeks up until the launch of the new anti-sexual harassment campaign on Sunday, women from the Egyptian Streets team and 12 others were asked to call the National Council of Women’s (NCW) harassment hotline two to three times a day, at different times, in order to …