women’s rights

Muslim Brotherhood leader and Constituent Assembly member Sobhi Saleh said that the assembly’s final voting on the draft constitution will…

TUNIS — Tunisian President Moncef al-Marzouki on Thursday offered a state apology to the woman allegedly raped by two policemen…

The latest draft of the constitution includes a clause that would limit the rights held by women to those compatible…

  Eleven human rights organizations released a joint statement Thursday condemning "the continuing crimes of sexual harassment of women," accusing…

Scores of political and human rights activists gathered in central Cairo to demand that women's rights be protected in the…

The National Council for Women joined other women’s rights activists on Tuesday in criticizing a proposed provision in the new…

In late August, 40-year-old Arafa Kamel set himself on fire outside the presidential palace in Heliopolis after a disagreement with…

  A 19-year-old girl was murdered overnight in a refugee camp in Gaza City by her brother and father in…

Sexual harassment has been a long-standing problem in Egypt. But since the street protests broke out last year, women have…

The head of Egypt's National Council for Women, Mervat al-Tallawy, said Friday that Egyptian women are excluded from the revolutionary…