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RSS FeedsRape, power and corruption: Is this Egypt`s MeToo moment?
(World News Egypt)

 
 

24 september 2020 22:55:01

 
Rape, power and corruption: Is this Egypt`s MeToo moment?
(World News Egypt)
 


“I was sexually harassedI was sexually harassedI was sexually harassed,” a powerful video featuring a cross section of actresses, activists, business women and influencers repeating the same sentence over and over again, an echo of what has shaken the Egyptian elite over the summer of 2020. The problem of sexual violence is not new in Egypt, a 2013 United Nations study found that 99.3 per cent of women had reportedly experienced some form of harassment, with 96 per cent claiming to have been physically assaulted. The issue is widely acknowledged with many television programmes, news reports and films going back a number of decades exploring the topic. But what happened this time around was...


 
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