Posted on 11/12/2013 8:36:04 AM PST by george76
The situation for women has worsened in Egypt since the 2011 revolution, while Iraqi women now suffer greater violence and discrimination than under Saddam Hussein.
Egypt is the worst country in the Arab world to be a woman, according to a poll of gender experts which found high levels of sexual harassment and female genital mutilation as well as an increase in violence and Islamist sentiment following the 2011 revolution.
Hopes that the Arab Spring would improve the lot of women in Egypt have not only been confounded, their situation has in fact worsened
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Syria has in the past been known for its relatively liberal attitudes towards women, particularly in major cities such as Damascus, but the surge in Islamist groups there and the introduction of Sharia law in some regions now controlled by hardline militants have rolled back progress in the field of gender equality.
The civil conflict had also seen government forces rape and torture women, according to rights groups, while displaced women in refugee camps were left vulnerable to trafficking, forced and child marriage and sexual violence.
"The Syrian woman is a weapon of war, subjected to abductions and rape by the regime and other groups," a Syrian women's rights campaigner said.
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high rates of forced marriage and trafficking.
"There are whole villages on the outskirts of Cairo and elsewhere where the bulk of economic activity is based on trafficking in women and forced marriages," said Zahra Radwan, Middle East and North Africa programme officer for the Global Fund for Women, a US-based rights group.
Female genital mutilation is endemic in Egypt, where 91 percent of women and girls - 27.2 million in all - are subjected to cutting, according to UNICEF.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Obama’s “War on Women”
What, exactly, is a “gender expert”?
I would have guessed Texas since they’ve passed such “harsh” pro-life laws. < /sarc >
Egyptians are not Arabs, though many Arabs may live in Egypt.
Or is my info incorrect?
“What is the best country for a woman?”
The country of “SHOPPING”!(women make up the majority of “its” tourist trade)
Are there any worst countries than Arab countries to be a woman?
Are there any worst countries than Arab countries to be a woman?
Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt’s Generals:
‘How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?’
Foreign Policy | 15 Aug 2013 | John Hudson
Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3055253/posts
Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt’s military — even as Cairo’s security forces massacre anti-government activists.
[by “anti-government activists” is meant church-burning jihadists]
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Do you have any hard info about the plight of women in Saudi Arabia? I have tried to do research on the subject and can find little about it. Also, they are very private and hard to talk to about personal things. I have friends from SA and want to understand what they may have gone through. The women seem like they have been abused.
well they can’t drive
books I have read talk about their fathers killing them, one that I can’t get out of my mind is a girl being bricked into a closet and left to die
they can’t leave the house
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