Egyptian Center for Women's Rights / Campaign Against Sexual Harassment featured on International Women's Day 2008

The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights
is pleased to invite you to our

International Women's Day Celebration
as part of the
Campaign Against Sexual Harassment:
"Making Our Streets Safer for All".

This celebration marks ECWR's call for a new law explicitly criminalizing sexual harassment. The event will include legal experts and NGOs representatives discussing the legislative situation and comparing sexual harassment laws in other countries. This will be followed by a committee of parliamentarians and lawyers who support the campaign and will work on drafting a new law based on the outcomes of the discussion.

The celebration will take place on Thursday March 6, 2008 at 2 pm, in Goethe Institute, Medan El-Mesaha, El-Dokky.

The main discussion topics will be:
Sexual harassment in the laws of other Arab countries
How security is related to harassment
Self defense

Also featuring
Bands
A photo exhibition
Booths for other Egyptian NGOs
Awareness raising materials and information

A 7 member delegation from the International Federation for Human Rights (IFHR) will attend, headed by Katherine Booth. They are visiting Egypt to discuss CEDAW (the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women), to which Egypt is a signatory, and the effect of Egypt's reservations on women's status in Egypt.

The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights
135 Misr-Helwan El Zeraay
2nd Floor, Suite 3
Hadayak El Maadi, Cairo
Egypt

Tel: (20) 2 2.527.1397 / 2.528.2176
Fax: (20) 2 2.528.2175
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