Bikya Masr
"CAIRO: A number of women’s organizations and movements are marching on Saturday, and too, calling for fair and equal representation of women in the new constitution.
The Egyptian Women’s Union said the march will start at noon from Talaat Harb Square to Tahrir Square, with the participation of many leading feminists figures including renowned writer and feminist Nawal al-Sa’dawi and the virginity tests fighter Samira Ibrahim. The march is titled “beware of the Egyptian women anger.”
The march that will see a great number of activists and equality advocates in Egypt aims to pressure the state to include women in the committee responsible for writing it. The march will also be calling for specific bands that ensure and preserves women’s rights and grants them legal and social representation, especially concerning family laws.
Many members at the newly-elected, and majority Islamic parliament have been launching attacks against women rights in the country. They wish to cancel many, if not most, of the laws that promote women’s rights, most notably that law that allows to obtain a divorce without her partner obstructing the process. The law, also known as Khol’e, is recognized as an Islamic right, and has been implemented a little over a decade ago, ending years of hardship and legal battles that women had to go through to obtain a divorce. In Egyptian law men are the one who can end a marriage, but the law allowed women to get out of an unhappy or abusive marriages, without the obstruction of their partner. It was normal for women to spend 10 or 15 years in the slow-moving Egyptian courts, which openly favor men’s interests in domestic law; and this, to rid themselves of their married life.
The Islamic MPs accuse these laws of “aiming to destroy families” and said it was passed to please the former first lady of the fallen regime. The parliamentary attacks on women’s rights drew great criticism from women’s organizations, whom, dismissed the calls and accused the MPs of wishing to destroy the little gains Egyptian women attained after long years of organized struggle."
"CAIRO: A number of women’s organizations and movements are marching on Saturday, and too, calling for fair and equal representation of women in the new constitution.
The Egyptian Women’s Union said the march will start at noon from Talaat Harb Square to Tahrir Square, with the participation of many leading feminists figures including renowned writer and feminist Nawal al-Sa’dawi and the virginity tests fighter Samira Ibrahim. The march is titled “beware of the Egyptian women anger.”
The march that will see a great number of activists and equality advocates in Egypt aims to pressure the state to include women in the committee responsible for writing it. The march will also be calling for specific bands that ensure and preserves women’s rights and grants them legal and social representation, especially concerning family laws.
Many members at the newly-elected, and majority Islamic parliament have been launching attacks against women rights in the country. They wish to cancel many, if not most, of the laws that promote women’s rights, most notably that law that allows to obtain a divorce without her partner obstructing the process. The law, also known as Khol’e, is recognized as an Islamic right, and has been implemented a little over a decade ago, ending years of hardship and legal battles that women had to go through to obtain a divorce. In Egyptian law men are the one who can end a marriage, but the law allowed women to get out of an unhappy or abusive marriages, without the obstruction of their partner. It was normal for women to spend 10 or 15 years in the slow-moving Egyptian courts, which openly favor men’s interests in domestic law; and this, to rid themselves of their married life.
The Islamic MPs accuse these laws of “aiming to destroy families” and said it was passed to please the former first lady of the fallen regime. The parliamentary attacks on women’s rights drew great criticism from women’s organizations, whom, dismissed the calls and accused the MPs of wishing to destroy the little gains Egyptian women attained after long years of organized struggle."
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