WOMENS HUMAN RIGHTS IN EGYPT

Egypt remains a deeply conservative society particularly in rural areas where female circumcision, the murder of women deemed to have brought dishonour on their families and domestic violence remain relatively common. If a woman is being battered by her husband and she goes to the police, the policeman will think that what he has done is all right

Unfortunately, women have also internalised attitudes against themselves. They sit in mosques and hear preachers telling them they're inferior and they socialise their sons as being superior.

In rural areas many still drop out of school as young as eight or nine.

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