sexual violence

features

International Women's Day 2017 • 8 min read

On sexual violence – Feminist testimonies from Egypt

Dalia Abdel Hamid | Progress on sexual violence seems a beautiful success story, but reality was complicated and painful

6 March 2017

January 25 2017 • 19 min read

Victory in defeat: How the revolution changed perceptions of violence against women

Heba Afify | Progress in how public sexual violence is dealt with may be one of few gains of Jan 25

24 January 2017

child abuse • 6 min read

Sexual assault of 3-year-old exposes school, legal failures

Passant Rabie | The mother of a three-year-old boy raped by a 36-year-old security guard at a private school in Nasr

8 May 2016

HIV/AIDS • 8 min read

What the decision to test all detainees at a police station for HIV reveals about Egypt’s security services

Pesha Magid | It is not quite clear what the sister of a man arrested on suspicion of being gay expected when she told

18 March 2016

Al-Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence • 18 min read

Domestic violence: Permissible by religion, custom and law

While violence against women in the public sphere has gained more attention in Egypt in the past few

24 November 2015

Dalia Abdel Hameed • 6 min read

Five takes on female cops fighting harassment on Cairo’s streets

Dalia Rabie | "If the process is not developed properly, we risk reproducing the very patriarchy we are trying to fight."

26 July 2015

FIDH • 8 min read

Q&A with Katherine Booth on the state’s use of sexual violence

Pesha Magid | The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) published a report Tuesday asserting that there’s been

20 May 2015

domestic violence • 1 min read

Egyptian women: Between education, livelihoods and abuse

Pesha Magid | 99.3% of Egyptian women experience sexual harassment. 82.6% say they feel unsafe in the street.

27 March 2015

child abuse • 8 min read

The terrifying realities in Egypt’s public schools

Mai Shams El-Din | School-related deaths and injuries in Egypt are unfortunately nothing new and occur all too frequently.

15 December 2014

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Opinion

Dina Makram Ebeid

Grappling with forms of justice: Combating sexual violence in civil society

Is it possible to seek justice for survivors of sexual violence in civil society?

8 March 2018

Nadine El-Nabli

Blog: #MeToo and the question of speaking

This is the 2nd piece in a series of commissioned reflections on MeToo as a campaign

9 November 2017

Laura Bird

Blog: #MeToo, vulnerability and ninja hedgehogs

This is the first piece in a series of commissioned reflections on MeToo as a campaign

23 October 2017

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News

Eid al-Adha • 5 min read

2-year prison sentence for man accused of sexual harassment over Eid

12 September 2018

sexual harassment • 7 min read

Dozens arrested for sexual harassment on Sham al-Nessim

18 April 2017

Mada Masr • 8 min read

Egypt’s women turn to social media to recount childhood sexual violence

6 April 2017

sectarian violence • 6 min read

Prosecution suspends investigations into assault of Coptic woman in Minya

15 January 2017

sexual harassment • 5 min read

Between 91 and 200 incidents of reported sexual harassment documented during Eid holiday

9 July 2016

Al-Nahar TV • 3 min read

Court acquits Reham Saeed of 18-month sentence for airing personal photos of assault victim

29 May 2016

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Cartoons

domestic violence

Sweet words

Andeel | Man (in very small letters): "Sorry..."

15 April 2015

cartoon

Cartoon: To whom it may concern

Andeel | You look like shit when you're harassing.

31 August 2014

cartoon

Cartoon: Good omen (Boshret Kheir)

Andeel | "This is a gathering of men." [Song lyrics from Boshret Kheir]

10 June 2014