Egypt’s National Salvation Front (NSF) announced on Sunday that it has formed a permanent committee to defend women’s rights and address the attack on their entitlement to these rights. “The targeting of women is in fact an attack on the identity of the nation. It aborts the goals of the revolution, which were highlighted in the calls for freedom, dignity and social justice,” said a statement issued by the NSF.
The statement added that “recent months have seen an unprecedented uptick in the severity of aggression on women and their rights in Egypt.” The statement said that violence against women is part of the violence that is currently inflicted upon all Egyptians by the ruling authority. “The authority seeks aborting the revolution and breaking the will of the revolutionaries through all possible means,” NSF said, stressing the need to stop the physical assaults on women.
The statement referred to the sexual violence practiced on women on the anniversary of the January uprising in Tahrir Square. Members of Egypt’s Shura Council (upper house of the parliament) had then accused women taking part in protests and marches of inviting people to attack them verbally, physically and sexually.
Needless to say that actions speak louder than words and we hope this ‘awakening of the mind‘ will be followed by acts. Read more about this article here.
