Press Release: Women Beat Drums and Ululate to Attract Voters, The current election continues to witness the deployment of women to attract voters through the use of dancing, the beating of drums and ululation. More

Second Press Release: Exploitation and Harassment of Women: Regarding the continuous exploitation and harassment of women, the ECWR has received the following complaints...More

First Press Release: ECWR recorded complaints by many citizens of continued use of terrorist measures in some polling locations against candidates, specifically women, as well as the use of drugs to attract voters...More

Press Release: Egyptian Center for Women's Rights Monitoring Women's Polling Places Throughout Egypt, ECWR will monitor the women's section of polling places and note any abuses, violations or discrimination t5hat may occur during the election process....More

Press Release: The Struggle for Democratic Change and Reserved Seats in Parliament, The Women's Forum for Change was shocked upon receiving news about candidate nominations for the Parliament 2005 election, which destroyed our hopes for true political and democratic reform...More

Press Release: Delegation from ECWR and Egyptian Women's Movement Returned from AWID
International Forum in Thailand with Admirable Success for Session on
Arab Women's Status Prepared by ECWR, (November 8, 2005) Last week, the delegation of women activists from
Egypt, assembled by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights (ECWR) returned from Bangkok, Thailand, where they attended the Association
for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) 10th International Forum,
entitled "How Does Change Happen?"..More

ECWR UPDATE: A monthly update on ECWR’s activities and the status of women in Egypt... September 2005. Small group work, ECWR's training for women in syndicates...More

Press Release Mr. President: The National Democratic Party didn't implement your election program – who should we believe?!, The Women's Forum for Change received news about the National Democratic Party’s nominations for candidates for the parliamentary election of 2005, which includes 6 women out of 444 candidates.....More

Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Citizenship and Justice:
The report found a substantial deficit in women's rights in the 16 countries and one territory reviewed. Women are at a profound disadvantage in practically every institution of society: the criminal justice system, the economy, education, health care, and the media. More >>

Training for Female Lawyers:  With increased cooperation and progress in mind, ECWR will host an advanced training for female lawyers from August 29, 2005 to September 1, 2005 at ECWR. This training is part of ECWR’s Women in Democratic Transition project, in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation... More

Press Release" A New Year of Discrimination Against Women":73 lawyers - all of them male – were sworn in as General Prosecutors today.   This represents a continuation of the discrimination against women in appointed positions and is a clear violation of Article 40 of the Egyptian Constitution, which states that "all citizens are equal before the law, in both rights and duties, regardless of gender, race, language, religion or creed." More

Progress of Arab Women 2004 Report  is commissioned by UNIFEM's regional office in Amman, Jordan. This report discusses the intensifying economic and political reform in the region, and follows the framework of UNIFEM's biennial report, Progress of the World's Women, evaluating women's progress along  a number of critical indicators.....

Initial Report on the Egyptian Presidential Election
from the Women's Forum for Change: September 7, 2005) The Women's Forum for Change, a project of the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights, assembled, trained and deployed election monitors stationed at polling places to observe and receive news and complaints on voting...  More

Payment in Advance: Report from civil society monitorson women's sections in the polling places during the Egyptian Presidential Election September 7, 2005. ECWR participated in monitoring the September 7, 2005 Egyptian Presidential Election as a member of the Civil Coalition of NGOs.   More

The Center's programs operate on all levels: from the leadership to the grassroots, enabling women to obtain their rights through direct legal assistance to needy women, familiarizing them with their legal rights, providing legal and family counseling and monitoring violations against their rights. The Center also focuses on encouraging and empowering women to participate in political life through a variety of means, from registering them to vote to running for