Egyptian women will be entitled to a maximum of three maternity leaves after the Senate on Sunday passed an amendment to the country’s labour law, local news outlets have reported.

Prominent Egyptian women’s rights activist Amal Fathy has been sentenced to a year in prison for posting a video on Facebook in which she criticised authorities’ failure to protect women from sexual harassment.

A video of an Egyptian mother-of-three dancing that went viral online prompting her husband to divorce her and her employers to sack her has reignited fierce debates over women’s rights.

Human rights organisations and activists yesterday welcomed Egypt’s decision to release 15 female detainees after they spent two years in pretrial detention.

Prosecution in Egypt’s Gharbiya governorate detained two men Tuesday 4 January, after allegations of blackmailing a minor with explicit, doctored images. Basant Khaled, a 16-year-old from Kafr El Zayat village, took her own life as a result of these actions.

Cairo – The suicide of a teenage girl in a village in northern Egypt after being sexually blackmailed by two men has sent shock waves on social media over the past few days.

The story of 17-year-old Basant Khaled from Kafr El Zayat village in Egypt’s Gharbia governorate, who committed suicide after she was blackmailed with photoshopped pictures online, has caused a ripple of outrage on social media

An advertisement by French automobile brand Citroen has attracted criticism for its apparent promotion of sexual harassment in Egypt.

The government has approved amendments to the Child Act that penalize business owners who employ children and parents who don’t send their kids to school.

The Egyptian Justice Ministry, in cooperation with Dar al-Iftaa, held a training program last month for authorized marriage registrars, known as mazouns, including instructions on how to investigate verbal divorce petitions before their official authentication.