Photos and video of the Eid sexual harassment protest
5 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Thursday, November 9 at Thursday, November 09, 2006.
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Congrats to Nermeena and all the others who organised it - and I heard there will be another one next Tuesday, 3pm @ Metro cinema, the epicentre of the original downtown problems....
At the protest, people were handing out flyers for the Egyptian Centre for Womens Rights - they have an online system where they are encouraging all women, foreign and local, to report incidents of harassment. Check it out, and ladies, make use of it!!!
UPDATE: Video plus translation - this woman is on fire...... :
A rough, quick, sketchy translation:
"..... I say to our system there is still a possibility to protect the women of Egypt. The people here have demonsted for the sake of Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq, but now we have reached the stage that we are demonstrating so that my daughter and your daughter can walk safely in the street! Can you see how low the ceiling has become? Have you seen how we have been so humiliated?
Today there has been a massacre in Beit Haroun, there is the killed and injured in Lebanon, but today we even have to demonstrate for the honour of our girls who were sexually assaulted in our streets in the days of Eid! Maybe soon we will be even have to be protesting against our honour being violated in our homes and bedrooms, can you imagine?
And I say to this our system, I say this to Hosni Mubarak, to Habib El Adli (Egyptian Minister for Interior Affairs) that there is still hope for saving Egypt"
What a great thing you have done for women. Bless you.
power to the women who were brave enough to show up. Lets hope this is just the start of a female revolution which sees the leering, panting, slavering men of Egypt given true justice and the women the right to walk the street unharrassed and proud.
anyone know how many turned up?
God bless all you women out there who made that march. You are all stars!!!!!!
Allison, I heard it was around 200 people...
Jasmine, I totally agree, this should be the start of something big. See you one tuesday at Metro?
Thank you, I was really happy to see all those women there, still this is the first step...more to come :)