Source: The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights The violations on female activists The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights followed up the events of March the 8th on the occasion of International Women's Day in a great worry.
The celebration events started with an initiative of young men and women who gathered in Al Tahrir Square in order to salute male and female martyrs of the Revolution as well as their mothers and to remind the society and decision makers with the necessity of involving women in phases of the democratic transition in Egypt.
ECWR participated in supporting this initiative; for male and female activists went to the Square and then a group of oppositionists surrounded them to discuss their demands. The gathering featured with a civilized way of discussion; however, a number of thugs gathered and surrounded those girls and women and attacked them as well as sexually harassed them.
ECWR followed up the trials of submitting police reports to the police stations, but the police stations still do not effectively work.Thus, ECWR announces its total refusal of such acts, and accuses police bodies of taking a reluctant situation towards these acts and towards maintaining security to everybody.The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights calls:
The public prosecutor for conducting immediate investigations on the accident
The Minister of Interior for spreading security forces as soon as possible, and assuring the necessity of respecting laws.
For punishing all those who do not do their duties of police officers either by firing them or accounting them.
For replacing graduates of Faculty of Law with the languid police officers.
Calling the armed forces to support the police in spreading safety in all districts of Egypt.
For adopting a national stance in order to involve women in all stages of democratic transitions and presenting a letter assuring principles of equality, in order to establish the Egyptian culture that respects women and condemns all forms of discrimination against them.
Revising educational curricula and media statements and making sure that they are free from discrimination against women.