WUNRN
Press
Statement
Hoda
Badran Rejects the Findings of the
Thomson
Reuters Foundation
on
the Situation of Women in
Cairo 14 November, EFUNION: Leader of Egypt’s Feminist Union (EFUNION)
Dr. Hoda Badran rejected Thursday the results and findings of the Thomson
Reuters Foundation study revealed Wednesday and which says that ”the fallout from the political upheaval in
Egypt has made it the worst country in the Arab world to be a woman, according
to research published exclusively in The
Independent.”.
The
Leader of Egypt’s Feminist Union also rejected the figures published of cases
of sexual assault noting that the study
did not reveal its sources for those figures which were specifically targeting
cases that occurred on 3 July.
Dr. Badran questioned the methodology of the study
that used more than 300
gender experts in the 21 Arab League states and
Badran questioned the criteria of choice for those 300 gender
experts and the questions that were posed to receive such blatant inaccurate
information.
However, Badran, noted that the 2 percent figure of women representation in the parliament of 2012 is a correct figure and is a an alert to the drafting committee of the constitution to draft representation rights for women that are just so that Egypt can be spared and protected from foreign criticism.
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