Nazra for Feminist Studies

Within the work of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) in the Global Week of Action against Armed violence, especially that women's participation and gender are cross cutting issues that will be highlighted across all themes of the week, in addition to Nazra for feminist studies' belief in the importance of having all parts of society in the public arena without any distinction between a man and a woman in the defense of the homeland, taking into consideration the status of violence against women and men human rights defenders, we ho

The signatory human rights organizations to this report strongly condemn the Egyptian army’s use of firearms against protestors in Tahrir square and its surrounding areas during the early hours of April 9th.

The attack - which led to several deaths and injuries - is a dangerous precedent and must be investigated immediately. Officials who gave the order to use firearms and resort to inappropriate force against demonstrators must be held to account.

Nazra's statement on the continuity of applying the Quota system in the upcoming elections:

Despite the fall of some of the pillars of the Egyptian regime and the stepping down of the former president of the Republic, the National Council of Women - established and presided by the wife of the ex-president - that never adopted any stand denouncing or condemning the violations perpetrated against the Egyptian people since the beginning of January 25th revolution intends to continue representing Egyptian women abroad in international conferences and meetings, specifically in the conference organized by the UN Committee on Women’s Status that will take place in New York by t

Nazra for feminist studies issued a statement on the results of women quota seats in the first round of the parliamentary elections.

Nazra for feminist studies, a member of the Independent Coalition for observing the Elections, observed the results election of the first round from gender perspective, through our observation to the results of the women quota seats of the first round, we noticed the following:

Nazra for feminist studies, a member of the Independent coalition of Observing the elections.

Nazra observed the followings in the counting of the votes process:

1. The lack of knowledge on the quota system in the electoral process was obvious in the counting of the votes process, ballot cards  of the women quota seats were in the general seats boxes , and many voted only for one candidate not two candidate professional or labor and this happened in the second committee (women quota seat) in Cairo governorate .

Nazra for feminist studies, the member in the Independent coalition for observing the elections, releases a special statement on women in the election day to choose the member of Parliament and the statement has some observations on women in the elections day, and they are:

1. Because employees supervising the electoral process had limited knowledge about the women’s quota system, inaccurate information was given to women about the system.

2. The ballot cards for the quota were not clear.

Nazra for Feminist Studies has released "Manual to Integrate Gender Mainstreaming in the Electoral Process". This manual is the first step by Nazra team mainstream gender in the Electoral Process. The guide provides information on the Egyptian status and how to integrate gender in all phases of the process of election taking place in 2010.  

Nazra for Feminsit Studies announced that it will monitor the parliamentary elections of 2010 from a gender perspective, through monitoring the various social, cultural, legal and economic factors that affect the empowerment of women in the elections.

Nazra team in collaboration with the initiative of Rising Voices are organizing the training of "Exploring Taboos ". This training will focus on equipping the trainees with the needs knowledge and skills to discuss taboos issues in our society, using the social media tools .

It is note worthy saying that these topics are censored in the main stream media, that is why the social media will be the best outlet to articulate these ideas.