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Mahnaz Afkhami

  •  August 26, 2013 
Women in Cairo protesting sexual harrassment
Throughout the media coverage in recent months of the tumultuous events in Egypt, little attention has been paid to Egyptian women, who may have the most to gain or to lose in any new political order that emerges in the country. Social media and dedicated Web sites are filling the gap for many women …
  •  September 17, 2012 
Egyptian women protesting sexual harrasment and violence.
The saddest stories told by vulnerable women in villages or slum shacks across the developing world most often involve violence or subjugation that they must bear because they don’t know how, or don’t have the means, to escape a bad situation. In the poorest countries, women talk of being assaulted or intimidated at home, …
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