CAIRO: The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights (ECWR) followed up very carefully the announcement of the cabinet reshuffle. The Prime Minster held consultations regarding the formation of a new government in response to the demands of demonstrators (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights and a number of NGOs express their great worry about the arrest of the Saudi citizen Manal Mousad El Sherif, 32-years-old on the charge of inciting women to drive cars, and of driving a car in Al-Khubar (...)
CAIRO: The news of the appointing of a female president in Kosovo, a Muslim country, comes as an answer to the controversy in Egypt and in the Arab World on women's rights in Islam to ascend senior positions.
Atifete Jahjaga is 36-years-old. (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights expresses its great concern about the incidents that happened in Tahrir Square on the dawn of Saturday, which according to the Ministry of Health resulted in the death of people and the injuries of 71 (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights in coordination with the Egyptian Coalition for Civil Education and Women's participation monitors the referendum on March 19, 2011.
* The Coalition's operations room monitored at the early hours of (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights followed up the events of March 8 on the occasion of International Women's Day with great worry. The celebration events started with an initiative of young women and men who gathered in Al Tahrir Square (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Coalition for Civic Education and Women's Participation has received and reviewed the constitutional amendments. These amendments have led to great worries amongst the coalition for they did not achieve what the Egyptian people (...)
CAIRO: The State Council's refusal to appoint women as judges was among the top public issues in the first half of 2010. However, women's participation in the parliamentary elections and the quota system became a more important topic in the second (...)
CAIRO: The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence started on the 25th of November, in conjunction with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and ends on the 10th of December, in conjunction with Human Rights (...)
CAIRO: The High Committee for Elections refused to give the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights (a member of the Egyptian Coalition for Monitoring the Legislative Elections of 2010) permission to monitor the parliamentary elections. It gave (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights (ECWR) was shocked when it received the decision of the State Council, Egypt's Administrative Court, to defer the appointment of female judges, although consensus of the Special Council was reached, (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights was disappointed by the final results of the 2010 mid-term elections of the Shura Council, as only one woman won in Kafr El Sheikh Governorate. These results are to be expected because there were a small (...)
The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights was dismayed by the decision made by the State Council judges in the emergency and second meeting of the General Assembly on March 1st 2010. The meeting was a follow-up to the decision of the consultants during (...)
The ECWR study defines three types of sexual harassers:
The "authoritative" harasser : One type of harasser who seeks to establish his authority over his victim and forces her to obey. Among these are employers and police officers.
The "manly" (...)
