Source: Bikya Masr
In an attempt to fight gender injustice in Egypt, the National Council for Human Rights agreed to start a committee for women’s rights. The decision came on Tuesday and assigned Mervat Tellawy as the chairman.

Tellawy was the UN deputy and the executive head of the ESCWA. She is the first female diplomat to be assigned for an ambassadorial post.

She was also the former chairman of the National Council for Women, which was cancelled following the Egyptian uprising earlier this year.

The committee was established to illuminate all forms of discrimination against women, on the basis that women’s rights are human rights.

The HRC said it receives several complaints about how women are treated socially. The new council will look into these reports and take the necessary legal actions, according to each case.

Discrimination against women is outlawed by the Egyptian penal code and is punishable by law.

 

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