Hi everyone,
Here is an appeal from Nihal, a friend and colleague from Soliya in Cairo (you may have got to know here as she is largely responsible for tech support) who is very active in relation to violence against women in Egyp:
A year has passed since Egyptian army soldiers stripped a female protester in Tahrir Square, beat her, and stomped on her half-naked body with their boots. The image circulated worldwide and the girl with the blue bra - whose identity remained unknown, but who in Egypt was dubbed 'Sitt el Banat' ('A Woman Among Girls') - became a symbol for all the other female protesters who took to the streets during this time and were met with assault, beatings, arbitrary detentions, verbal abuse, rape threats, and more.
We would like to commemorate this time, not just for the horrors it contained, but for the strength, dignity, and defiance of Sitt el Banat and the thousands of other women who still face a campaign to deter women from political participation -- and who continue, despite threats to their safety and well-being, to take to the streets to fight for what they believe in.
What would you like to say to Sitt el Banat and others like her?
Please send us your own letters/messages to them on facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/HarassMapEgypt, or twitter @harassmap or email at info@harassmap.org
Here is an appeal from Nihal, a friend and colleague from Soliya in Cairo (you may have got to know here as she is largely responsible for tech support) who is very active in relation to violence against women in Egyp:
A year has passed since Egyptian army soldiers stripped a female protester in Tahrir Square, beat her, and stomped on her half-naked body with their boots. The image circulated worldwide and the girl with the blue bra - whose identity remained unknown, but who in Egypt was dubbed 'Sitt el Banat' ('A Woman Among Girls') - became a symbol for all the other female protesters who took to the streets during this time and were met with assault, beatings, arbitrary detentions, verbal abuse, rape threats, and more.
We would like to commemorate this time, not just for the horrors it contained, but for the strength, dignity, and defiance of Sitt el Banat and the thousands of other women who still face a campaign to deter women from political participation -- and who continue, despite threats to their safety and well-being, to take to the streets to fight for what they believe in.
What would you like to say to Sitt el Banat and others like her?
Please send us your own letters/messages to them on facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/HarassMapEgypt, or twitter @harassmap or email at info@harassmap.org
It is the first thing i'll do tomorrow as soon as my pc is started. thank you for the link =)
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