When 83-year-old Farida El Choubachy ran for parliament in Egypt last year, she did not expect to win, let alone become the ...

Woman today in Egypt won a right that they obviously should have had all along after an Egyptian court banned the administration of "virginity tests" on female prisoners, reports MSNBC and CNN. The ...

Beating, disrobing of veiled woman part of a pattern. Dec. 21, 2011 — -- The Egyptian army and security forces are targeting female protesters, subjecting them to violence, torture, sexual ...

Egyptian women's rights activists called on Monday for laws protecting women to be better enforced after the introduction of ...

STORY: In Egypt, women who've fallen into debt say the cost of it goes far beyond the financial. They face jail time, then social stigma and struggle to rebuild their lives. The issue comes amid an ...