Category: Women’s Rights

Alarming rise in mob attacks on women protesters in Egypt

Jul 13, 2013

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joanne

in Egypt, Women’s Rights

by Cristina Finch, AIUSA Managing Director – Women’s Human Rights Program Amnesty International researchers near Tahrir Square have uncovered a disturbing wave of rape and other sexual violence against women sweeping through demonstrations in Egypt. With alarming frequency, women and girls demonstrating near Tahrir Square are being sexually assaulted by mobs. Authorities have turned their…