women’s rights

Dozens of attendees halted a public lecture on the status of Egyptian women late Monday, shouting against the chairwoman of…

Opportunities from the Arab Spring to boost the low number of women in parliaments are being missed, while globally the…

There are deliberate attempts to disparage the National Council for Women, Farkhonda Hassan, former secretary general of the council said…

Mervat al-Talawy has been elected as head of the National Council for Women and Nehal Aboul Komsan has been elected…

Most of the largest Egyptian political parties have committed to ambitious reform concerning human rights, but have given mixed signals…

A leading female figure in the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has accused the women’s march to condemn military…

The woman's commission at Egypt's National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) on Thursday decided to join a lawsuits filed by…

The head of the UN women's agency voiced serious concern on Thursday about the treatment of women and children by…

WASHINGTON — An impassioned Hillary Clinton accused post-revolution Egypt of failing its women as she denounced the stripping and beating…