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Article name: Suffering in silence
I found my article from The Egyptian Gazette; It is a article about women being harassed when they walk out on the streets alone. A 22-year-old student walks out on the streets and never goes a day without getting teased and groped. Weather a women is beautiful or not, whether she covers her body or not, harassment is an unavoidable part of being a women walking down the streets or taking public transportation.
There is a problem over in Egypt because there are no laws that include article that prevent sexual harassment. Neither the action of harassing women on the streets. This article talked about surveys and test that were completed and conducted by the Egyptian center for women rights which is a local non-profit organization that defends the rights of women. 98 percent of foreign women that visited Egypt and 83 percent of native Egyptian women who were surveyed stated that they had been sexually harassed, the other test and survey that was conducted was about 62 percent of male respondents admitted to harassing women, while others blamed women for bringing on the harassment because of the way they dress.
The problem with sexual harassment in Egypt is that women always like to keep the issue to themselves; women think that if they disclose their experience to anybody including their closet family members that it would ruin their reputation. They are trying to bring values like self respect and respect for freedom of women back to the streets in Egypt. For this to start changing a campaign was made that started to attract about 18,000 supporters then later on the number became 23,000 this was to make sure that Egypt would “wake up and open it’s eyes” to the suffering women. The campaign was to raise awareness to help women and to try and prevent harassment from happening on the
Current event exercise
Article name: Suffering in silence
I found my article from The Egyptian Gazette; It is a article about women being harassed when they walk out on the streets alone. A 22-year-old student walks out on the streets and never goes a day without getting teased and groped. Weather a women is beautiful or not, whether she covers her body or not, harassment is an unavoidable part of being a women walking down the streets or taking public transportation.
There is a problem over in Egypt because there are no laws that include article that prevent sexual harassment. Neither the action of harassing women on the streets. This article talked about surveys and test that were completed and conducted by the Egyptian center for women rights which is a local non-profit organization that defends the rights of women. 98 percent of foreign women that visited Egypt and 83 percent of native Egyptian women who were surveyed stated that they had been sexually harassed, the other test and survey that was conducted was about 62 percent of male respondents admitted to harassing women, while others blamed women for bringing on the harassment because of the way they dress.
The problem with sexual harassment in Egypt is that women always like to keep the issue to themselves; women think that if they disclose their experience to anybody including their closet family members that it would ruin their reputation. They are trying to bring values like self respect and respect for freedom of women back to the streets in Egypt. For this to start changing a campaign was made that started to attract about 18,000 supporters then later on the number became 23,000 this was to make sure that Egypt would “wake up and open it’s eyes” to the suffering women. The campaign was to raise awareness to help women and to try and prevent harassment from happening on the