(Cairo, June 14th, 2022) The Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights (ECWR) submitted its proposal to the National Training Academy (NTA), within the invitation to national dialogue extended by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during the Egyptian Family Iftar banquet.
This event is organized under the Academy’s umbrella in coordination with all political and youth parties to run a national dialogue that tackles the priorities of national work at this current time. The outcomes of this dialogue are then submitted to the presidency.
ECWR participates through presenting its vision on women’s issues, justice and education, by raising a number of issues for discussion in the national dialogue, including:
- To conduct national statistical surveys on rates of violence against women.
- To enact a law criminalizing domestic violence in all its forms.
- To introduce amendments to the Personal Status Law.
- To support the justice system, reporting mechanisms, litigation and enforcement of judgments.
- To Increase women’s economic empowerment and issuing continuous qualitative data on women’s work rates in all fields.
- To evaluate educational curricula regarding the dissemination of human rights and women’s issues and rights, and to break the idea of stereotypical roles of women in the family and society.
- To develop programs to educate and disseminate women’s rights in all fields.
These discussions will take place in partnership with many relevant bodies and authorities such as the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Social Solidarity, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Health, NGOs working in the field of women’s rights, the National Council for Women, the National Council for Human Rights, the Human Rights Committee of the House of Representatives, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, university professors, senior teachers and educational experts, university and school students’ union, boards of trustees in primary education centers, A group of artists who are interested in women’s issues.
Nehad Abulkomsan, ECWR’s Chairwoman, expects that these discussions will result in radical solutions to all the issues that will be raised. It is also expected that these discussions will come out with urgent and effective implementation mechanisms that will help improve the women’s situation in society.
