Nazra for Feminist Studies

Nazra for Feminist Studies issued its first newsletter, which aims to collect its remarkable activities and events and also it contains information on the mandate of Nazra and other issues related to the field of interests of Nazra team.

Nazra for Feminist Studies (Nazra) is pleased to announce the launch of its new website with better content display and developed browsing experience: nazra.org.

During the development of the website we took into consideration different criteria related to choosing the fonts, colours, structure and interactivity. The major restructure of the website aims to lay special focus on the content where you can find on the homepage the most recent content issued and the website will automatically load more content once you scroll more.

This paper is providing an analysis from gender perspective and from Islamic feminist perspective, to the statements of Dr Manal Abul Hassan, the secretary of Women division of Cairo, of the Freedom and the Justice party, here and after FJP , the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.  Abul Hassan criticized female demonstrators and their march which was known by “women march”, where they refuted the violations of the army personals against the female protestors in the cabinet incidents, which took place in December 2011.

Nazra for Feminist Studies (Nazra) released a report about mentoring^* women candidates in the 2011-12 People’s Assembly Elections based on its observations of the electoral process and the experience of several women candidates.

The targeting of Women human rights defenders  seen over the course of an entire day, when the sit-in at the cabinet building was dispersed at dawn on December 16, is a continuation and clear escalation of militaristic policies aimed at Women human rights defenders, employed consistently by the former regime prior to the January 25 revolution. The policy of targeting Women human rights defenders is part of attempts by those currently in charge of the country, the various security agencies, and the remnants of the former regime to expel women from the public sphere.

The Women Human Rights Defenders Program (WHRDP), of Nazra for Feminist Studies, is launching today its first report “A Continuation of Violations: Military Policy Towards Women Human Rights Defenders” on the ongoing state’s discriminatory policies against women human rights defenders since the Mubarak's regime till now.

Today marks the International Day for The Elimination of Violence Against Women, and we as feminist organizations wanted to take part in the 16 days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence Campaign by organizing events in Egypt, especially that this year’s theme is challenging Militarism and Ending Violence against Women.

The undersigned organizations condemn the unprecedented extra-judicial killings and acts of violence committed by military police and central security forces, on the 9th of October in the Maspero area and central Cairo. Peaceful protesters demanding rights for Coptic citizens were attacked, leading to at least 25 deaths and 300 injuries, some critical. We further condemn the arrest of an unknown number of demonstrators and their referral to a military tribunal for investigation.

Introduction: from early to late summer in 2010, the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute has helped develop a new agenda for working with gender equality in Egypt and the Arab world through the project “Changing Masculinities, Changing Communities”.
 
The project was implemented and funded in collaboration with KVINFO, the Danish Center for Information on Gender, Equality and Ethnicity, and coordinated in Cairo and Copenhagen by Mozn Hassan, and Thomas Burø.
 

One of the earliest and most important questions raised by the Egyptian revolution, and one that is still being asked, is this: Where are the Egyptian women? The answer I give: Women in Egypt are getting to a better place, but the path is long and hard.