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In a 2013 poll of gender experts, Egypt ranked worst for women's rights out of all the Arab states. [ 26 ] On 23 June 2020, Egyptian security forces detained prominent activist Sanaa Seif from outside the general prosecutor's office in the capital, Cairo, where she was waiting to file a complaint about being physically assaulted outside Cairo's ...
Women are still able to pursue a divorce through the traditional means wherein the fault of the husband must be proven. This method allows women greater financial rights and protections. With Egypt's political upheaval and legal turmoil, the future of women's legal rights within marriage (and other areas) are uncertain.
Feminism seems to have become a priority of the state since 2000 with the foundation of the National Council for Women (NCW) who are very active in promoting women's rights in Egypt. In 2000 legislation was passed allowing women to divorce under the khul-law and to pass on their nationality to their biological children in 2004.
The National Council for Women in Egypt (NCW) is an Egyptian National Council. [1] It is the only national, independent women's machinery in Egypt. The Council was previously established by Presidential Decree No. 90 of 2000. It is affiliated with the President of the Republic of Egypt.
Egyptian women's rights activists (1 C, 27 P) F. Feminism in Egypt (3 C, 8 P) P. Prostitution in Egypt (1 C, 1 P) V. Violence against women in Egypt (1 C, 9 P)
Jehan Sadat [1] (Arabic: جيهان السادات, romanized: Jīhān as-Sādāt, [2] pronounced [ʒeˈhæːn es.sæˈdæːt]; née Safwat Raouf; 29 August 1933 [3] – 9 July 2021 [4]) was an Egyptian human rights activist and the First Lady of Egypt, as the wife of Anwar Sadat, from 1970 until her husband's assassination in 1981.
Before becoming the EFU, the organization which had ties to the Wafd Party was called the Wafdist Women's Central Committee in 1920. [4] The creation of the Egyptian Feminist Union came in response to feminist dissatisfaction with the Egyptian independence movement, which placed women's rights as secondary in the struggle for independence.
Nazra for Feminist Studies is a women's rights organisation based in Egypt. This group contributes to the continuity and development of the Egyptian and regional feminist movement in the Middle East and North Africa. The group believes that feminism and gender are political and social issues affecting freedom and development in all societies.