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A Message To Women: Stay At Home Or Be Shamed

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Egyptian violated in revolution's cradle vows to fight on - Hania Moheeb, an Egyptian journalist assaulted in Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square, says attacks aimed at shaming women into silence will not succeed. By NBC News' Susan Kroll and Tracy Jarrett.

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Women violated in the cradle of Egypt's revolution, activists say (NBC, March 23, 2013)
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/23/17415498-women-violated-in-the-cradle-of-egypts-revolution-activists-say?lite
"Cairo's Tahrir Square, once the staging ground for the massive uprising that ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, is quickly becoming notorious for something very different: an organized campaign of sexual assaults, activists say. The past year has seen an increase in attacks against women at demonstrations, but recently they have been particularly rampant -- and, according to witnesses and activists, they have been following similar patterns..."

Female genital mutilation on the rise in the United States-report (trustlaw, March 11, 2013)
http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/news/female-genital-mutilation-on-the-rise-in-the-united-states-report/

Shura Council committee says female protesters should take responsibility, if harassed (egyptindependent, Feb 11, 2013)
http://bit.ly/U88DIa
"... Major General Adel Afify, member of the committee representing the Salafi Asala Party, criticized female protesters, saying that they "know they are among thugs. They should protect themselves before requesting that the Interior Ministry does so. By getting herself involved in such circumstances, the woman has 100 percent responsibility ..."

Group says sexual assaults on the rise in Tahrir Square (CNN, Jan 29, 2013)
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/29/world/africa/egypt-sexual-assault-allegations
"Sexual violence against female protestors at Cairo's Tahrir Square appears to be increasing, an activist group devoted to end such assaults said Tuesday. Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault said it intervened in 15 of 19 reported sexual assaults on Friday when 10,000 people gathered in the square on the two-year anniversary of the start of the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. "These attacks represent a startling escalation of violence against women in Tahrir Square in terms of the number of incidents and the extremity of the violence which took place," ...The organization said some of the cases involved life-threatening violence where the attackers used knives or other weapons. It said some of its members also were attacked during rescue attempts..." 

Special report: Female genital mutilation - unreported, ignored and unpunished (independent, Jan 6, 2013)
http://ind.pn/UUoJUY
"The failure to punish anyone for carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM) in almost a decade since Labour introduced a new law designed to stamp out the practice is forcing prosecutors to seek alternative methods to tackle the problem. The Government was facing growing criticism from campaigners after an Independent on Sunday investigation into the horrifying practice known as "cutting", in which the genitals of women and girls are severed ... The IoS inquiry revealed that hundreds of hospitals, councils and police forces are failing to enforce the law designed to stop the agonising procedure..." 

It happens at night: Genital mutilation in Egypt (DW, Nov 22, 2012)
http://www.dw.de/it-happens-at-night-genital-mutilation-in-egypt/a-16397510
"Despite being legally banned, female genital mutilation in Egypt is on the rise, causing lifelong pains, health problems and even death for the women who undergo it. Islamists are pushing to legalize the procedure again ... Omayma Idris, a Cairo-based gynaecologist, says that more than 90 percent of all married Egyptians today are thought to have undergone mutilation. After the prohibition, she says, one could see a decline, "but since the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists are in power in Egypt, the numbers are on the rise again; they encourage families to do it again." 

Egypt's sexual harassment of women 'epidemic' (BBC, Sep 3, 2012)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19440656
"Campaigners in Egypt say the problem of sexual harassment is reaching epidemic proportions, with a rise in such incidents over the past three months. For many Egyptian women, sexual harassment - which sometimes turns into violent mob-style attacks - is a daily fact of life, reports the BBC's Bethany Bell in Cairo ... Said Sadek, a sociologist from the American University in Cairo, says that the problem is deeply rooted in Egyptian society: a mixture of what he calls increasing Islamic conservatism, on the rise since the late 1960s, and old patriarchal attitudes."

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