CAIRO - 16 May 2020: The operations room of the National Council for Women (NCW) said it received no complaints of harassment during Eidul Fitr vacation. Director General of the NCW’s Women’s Complaints Office Amal Abdel Moneim said the room received many calls inquiring about personal status-related issues, family violence, inheritance and human trafficking but nothing about harassment. She also reviewed the laws and new amendments that were passed in the Criminal Code to provide protection for the female survivors from harassment, rape and indecent assault. She also talked about the newly amendments which toughened the penalty against FGM perpetrators and against those who disinherit women, the statement added. At the virtual meeting which comes under the title of “Regional Support to Reinforce Human Rights, Rule of Law and Democracy in the Southern Mediterranean,” Morsy added that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has ratified new amendments to the Penal Code, per which the data of the harassment victims will be secret, besides other laws combating bullying.

Source: Egypt Today May 16, 2021 11:20 UTC