Items related to women's rights
Reuters 11 Oct 2012
Extremists imposing Islamic law in Mali's north are abusing human rights, particularly those of women, and paying...
Al-Masry Al-Youm Website 07 Oct 2012
Muslim Brotherhood leader and Constituent Assembly member Sobhi Saleh said that the assembly’s final voting on...
Al-Masry Al-Youm 05 Oct 2012
Eleven human rights organizations released a joint statement Thursday condemning "the continuing crimes of...
AFP 05 Oct 2012
TUNIS — Tunisian President Moncef al-Marzouki on Thursday offered a state apology to the woman allegedly raped by...
Leyla Doss 05 Oct 2012
The latest draft of the constitution includes a clause that would limit the rights held by women to those compatible...
Egypt Independent
AFP
03 Oct 2012 Scores of political and human rights activists gathered in central Cairo to demand that women's rights be protected...
Egypt Independent 02 Oct 2012
The National Council for Women joined other women’s rights activists on Tuesday in criticizing a proposed...
Omar Halawa 19 Sep 2012
In late August, 40-year-old Arafa Kamel set himself on fire outside the presidential palace in Heliopolis after a...
AFP 18 Jul 2012
A 19-year-old girl was murdered overnight in a refugee camp in Gaza City by her brother and father in an...
Virginie Nguyen 17 Jul 2012
Sexual harassment has been a long-standing problem in Egypt. But since the street protests broke out last year, women...