a couple accounts of what happened to the march in support of expanded political rights for women in the new egypt yesterday:
people were handing out this flyer:
Quote:
The flyer had the following demands:
1. Women's participation in shaping Egypt's constitutional, legal and political future.
2. A new civil constitution that respects citizenship, espouses equality and abolishes discrimination.
3. Amending laws so that it give full equality and rights, including personal status law.
4. Not allowing women's reproductive role to take over her participation in public and private life.
5. Establishing law for criminalization of violence against women inside and outside their home.
6. The constitution must allow women to run for presidency.
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which personally i cannot imagine not supporting...but that was apparently not the attitude taken by folk around tahrir square:
Rebel With A Cause: Faggots for Whores? Or What happened to Women March in Tahrir
another:
International Women's Day inCairo - Blog - The Arabist
it's a process. it's good that these issues are on the table and that the demo got the amount of exposure that it did. and sad.