This study aims to shed the light on cases of femicide in Egypt through the documentation and the analysis of…
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World Day “against Trafficking in Persons”
The United Nations General Assembly has designated July 30 as the World Day against Trafficking in Persons. The main aim of this day is to raise awareness about the situation of the victims of human trafficking, to promote and protect their rights, to emphasize the importance of continuing efforts to ...
Workshop for Civil Society Members to Raise Awareness of the Harms of FGM
Tadwein for Gender Studies, in partnership with Egyptian Female Lawyers Initiatives, is holding a two-day training workshop aimed at raising the efficiency of male and female workers in Egyptian civil society organization in a number of Egyptian governorates
(Cairo, Giza, Helwan, Alexandria, Minya, Qena, Assiut, Beni Suef and Ismailia)
On the first ...
Women’s Rights Online Network
Tadwein is a member of a multi-country network called “Women’s Rights Online”. This network aims to build evidence-based data on ICT and gender in participating countries within the next five years. As part of the network activities, Tadwein conducted research named “Translating Access into Empowerment” in Egypt. The research aimed ...
Women’s Rights Online
This project started in 2015, and the main objective is to find out the extent of the gender gap on the Internet, to reveal the uses of the Internet by Egyptian women, and to identify the obstacles and threats they face in accessing the Internet and social media.
The study was ...
Women’s Rights Online; Translating Access into Empowerment
This report explores the real extent of that divide in nine cities across nine
developing countries, in order to gain a better understanding of the
empowering potential of ICTs as a weapon against poverty and gender
inequality, and the barriers that must be overcome to unlock it. ...
Violence among Young People in Poor Areas in Greater Cairo Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
A total of 3285 households participated in the study that took place in 22 areas in Greater Cairo. The main aim of this study is to identify the various types of violence among young people in poor Greater Cairo, in order to inform and influence preventive strategies. ...
Violence among the Youth in Urban Poor Greater Cairo
This project aims to study violence among young people in urban poor Cairo through conducting a research study. The objectives of the study are to identify different forms, determinants and consequences of violence on young people, and the different tactics they developed to resist it. The study was conducted in ...
Training National Council for Women members on the mechanisms of eliminating FGM
Being a member of the Anti-FGM Task Force, Tadwein for Gender Studies held training in partnership with the National Council for Women in Giza to raise awareness of the harms of female circumcision and the reasons for the spread of this practice despite all efforts made to eradicate this crime ...
Training Guide to Include Women in Local Councils
This training manual is to provide trainers with basic knowledge on issues of local governance and women’s inclusion in local issues, election campaign management, social communication and community initiatives ...
Towards Safe Work Environment for Female Journalists in Egypt
Tadwein Center for Gender Studies has organized a round table to discuss effective solutions to the problem of the unsafe work environment for female journalists in Egypt, and to identify a set of measures and policies that ensure the protection of female workers in press and media institutions from any ...
Third Statement by The Anti-FGM Task Force
A statement was issued by the Anti-FGM Task Force on August 7, 2020, supporting the referral of a doctor to the Administrative Trial for the circumcision of a girl, and demands to stop to the usage of mitigating sanctions and a stay of execution against doctors practicing FGM. ...
The Unified law to combat Violence against Women
The Task Force for a held its launching conference, on 4 December 2017 during the 6 Days of activism against gender-based violence (GBV). This comes in the context of the continuing spread of violence against women, despite the adoption of several policies and procedures to combat GBV in Egypt. The ...
The Story did not End campaign
In 2017, Tadwein Center for Gender Studies launched a campaign on social media platforms about the crime of mutilating the bodies of women with incendiary materials or acid as a form of violence against women, as this crime is a silent crime, in which no official statistics are available on ...
The National Council are Ours
Egyptian women have been constrained from entering local-level politics by the lack of finances, domestic responsibilities, or social pressures. However, the current Egyptian constitution offers a huge opportunity for women to be members of the LPCs as Article 180 stipulates that women should occupy 13,500 seats. This is a considerable ...
The Local Councils are Ours; Towards Effective Participation of Egyptian Women in the Local Councils
Tadwein Center for Gender Studies organized a conference on April 24th, 2018 on the “The Local Councils are Ours; Towards Effective Participation of Egyptian Women in the Local Councils” project. This conference aimed to shed the light on the center efforts, during the year before the conference, in training 320 women ...
The impact of early marriage on young Egyptian girls
Tadwein has worked on this project from mid-2019 to mid-2020. Tadwein is implementing this project to raise awareness about the harmful impacts of early/child marriage on the lives of women in urban greater Cairo and rural areas in Fayoum. ...
The Fifth Statement of the Action Force Against Female Genital Mutilation: What after the recent amendments to the law?
In celebration of the National Day of Combating FGM (June 14th, 2021), the action force against FGM has initiated a discussion around the latest amendments to the penal code, which included Article (242) bis and (242) (a) bis on criminalizing FGM. The discussion revolved around the new amendments, such as: ...
Task Force against FGM
Despite the efforts made by governmental and civil society intuitions over the past two decades in eliminating FGM /C, the results indicate that the magnitude of change is in no way proportional to the size of the human and financial resources allocated to this issue. As Tadwein Center crucially believe ...
Support is the Most Important
Support_is_the_Most_Important is the slogan of the electronic campaign launched by “Tadwein Center for Gender Studies” ...
Stop the Medicalization of FGM
The crime of FGM comes on top of the crimes that women and girls suffers from in Egypt, ...
Speak out your pain Campaign
In conjunction with the “International Day of the Girl Child”, Tadwein center has launched a campaign titled “Speak out your pain”. The campaign aims at encouraging women and girls that have been exposed to crime and in-humane practices to share their stories and their struggles, which aims in raising the ...
Slayed by Harassment campaign
The majority of Egyptian women get exposed to various forms of sexual harassment in the public sphere such as verbal harassment, unwanted touching, and in some cases sexual assault/ rape. Egypt has one of the highest rates of sexual harassment in the world. A study conducted by the United Nations ...
She is Intact Campaign
Tadwein for Gender Studies launched this year a new campaign “She is Intact” celebrating the National Day against Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt on 14th of June 2022. The campaign lasted for two weeks on all social media outlets of Tadwein. ...
Sexual Education for Youth and Marginalized Groups
A Conference on sexual education was held on December 6, 2015 at the Greek Campus at the American University in Cairo, as a part of the activities of “Not a Shame” campaign that was launched on November 25th and ended on December 10th, 2015. The outcomes of the “Women’s Rights ...
Second Statement by The Anti-FGM Task Force
The Anti-FGM Taskforce is sadened and angered by the death of Nada, a 12-year-old girl, in the village of al-Hawatka in Assiut governorate. The girl died after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM), at the private clinic of an obstetrician-gynecologist on Wednesday, 29 January 2020. The child hotline at the National ...
The study aims to contribute to the existing literature body on the impact of child marriage on development in Egypt…
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Project’s date: 2016 Tadwein has implemented the “Mapping GBV Work in Egypt”, an online platform which aims to provide information…
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Recently, a proposal appeared on the scene to amend the articles relating to the criminalization of harassment and transform it…
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This study aims to do the following: Identify the level of knowledge amongst medical students regarding FGM in Egypt, and…
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In every sexual assault incident in Egypt, the media stands in a hostile position towards the victims/survivors, as it intentionally…
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ورقة موقف لقوة العمل المناهضة لختان الإناث في مصر
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The results of Merayat’s study to monitor and analyze Ramadan drama from a gender perspective for the 2017 and 2018…
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This study and the attached video document the story of Mayar (17 years) from Suez Governorate, who lost her life…
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The Digital Securtiy project activities included training for 150 women in 15 Egyptian governorates utilizing the training manual that Tadwein…
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