An international rights platform has documented thousands of violations against women in Egypt since 3 July 2013, a turning point in the regime’s treatment of females, which was considered a red line by previous governments.

A forensics team has found new evidence in the “Ayat girl” case, in which a 15-year-old girl stabbed a microbus driver who attempted to rape her after a sinister plan devised by her boyfriend.

One of the most significant rights for female workers is to be safe and not to be exposed to any form of sexual harassment in workplace.

Fatima Qandil is the first female judge to take up the judges panel in Egypt’s Criminal Court. The criminal court held a session on Sunday regarding a case of stock market manipulation. The case was led by judge Mohamed El-Feki alongside Qandil, Mahmoud Mohammad Yahya Rashdan, Abdullah Abdul Aziz Metwally …

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.