FILE – Minister of Sports and Youth Khaled Abdel Aziz
CAIRO - 24 February 2018: Egypt's Sports Ministry will launch an anti-harassment policy, the first in Egypt, in cooperation with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ).
The policy will be declared in a press conference on Monday, said Dina Fouad, undersecretary of the Sports Ministry in a statement on Saturday.
It aims to create a working climate that is free of all forms of harassment and to counter all forms of violence and discrimination, Fouad said.
She talked about activating the role of young leaders to promote awareness of the need to fight harassment.
The conference will be held in the presence of a number of leaders of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the German International Cooperation Agency and public figures working in the field of anti-harassment.
However, the first harassment case in Egypt was in 2008 when Noha Ostadh filed a case against Sharif Gomaa who harassed her from his car as he drove slowly alongside her.
The first harassment law in Egypt was issued in June 2014 during the rule of the temporary president Adly Mansour, it states that the minimum term of imprisonment for the criminal is six months and/or a minimum fine of LE 3,000 and no more than LE 5,000.
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