The Women and Memory Forum will run a workshop next Sunday called "Women and the Constitution" to discuss the draft made by the Women and the Constitution working group, contributing to the efforts of feminist organizations to guarantee women's rights in the new Egyptian constitution. A group of activists and researchers in the field of women and law—including Mesan Hasan, the coordinator of the research unit of the Women and Memory Forum, and Salma al-Nakash, a program coordinator of the Nazra Association for Feminist Studies— have studied the articles regarding women and gender in the Egyptian constitution, as well as the constitutions of other nations (like Tunisia, Morocco, South Africa, Germany, and Sweden), to form constitutional principles from a woman's perspective. Mesan Hasan said they presented the first draft to the "Let's write our constitution" initiative of the Hisham Mubarak Law Center. They also presented it to the feminist organizations' alliance, inviting a group of male and female constitutional law experts and academics, as well as representatives of civil society institutions and political parties to join. They will come out with a full version of the study that can be presented to the national committee that works to create a new constitution for Egypt.
