Egypt's National Council for Women: No complaints of harassment received during Eidul Fitr

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Sun, 16 May 2021 - 11:17 GMT

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Egypt Today staff

Sun, 16 May 2021 - 11:17 GMT

Hundreds of Egyptians perform Eidul Fitr prayer on Friday at Mostafa Mahmoud Mosque, Giza - pHOTO BY MOHAMED EL hOSARY

Hundreds of Egyptians perform Eidul Fitr prayer on Friday at Mostafa Mahmoud Mosque, Giza - pHOTO BY MOHAMED EL hOSARY

CAIRO - 16 May 2020: The operations room of the National Council for Women (NCW) said it received no complaints of harassment during Eidul Fitr vacation.


Director General of the NCW’s Women’s Complaints Office Amal Abdel Moneim said the room received many calls inquiring about personal status-related issues, family violence, inheritance and human trafficking but nothing about harassment.

She added that the operations room received via hotline 15115 any complaint or inquiry from 9:00 a.m. till 9: p.m.

During her participation in November in the European Union and the Council of Europe in the Southern Mediterranean the “South Programme IV,” Head of the National Council for Women (NCW) Dr. Maya Morsy reviewed Egypt's efforts in the combating violence against women and how the Egyptian Constitution of 2014 guarantees women’s rights in more than 20 articles, according to a statement from the NCW in a statement on Monday.

 
She also reviewed the laws and new amendments that were passed in the Criminal Code to provide protection for the female survivors from harassment, rape and indecent assault. She also talked about the newly amendments which toughened the penalty against FGM perpetrators and against those who disinherit women, the statement added.
 
At the virtual meeting which comes under the title of “Regional Support to Reinforce Human Rights, Rule of Law and Democracy in the Southern Mediterranean,” Morsy added that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has ratified new amendments to the Penal Code, per which the data of the harassment victims will be secret, besides other laws combating bullying.
 
Recently, more than 50 countries at the United Nations General Assembly’s third committee on human rights, social, humanitarian and cultural issues have adopted an Egyptian-drafted resolution on “protecting the rights of women and girls from the repercussions of the Corona.”
 
The South Programme IV was participated by Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Palestine.
 

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