Women Before, During and After the 25th January Revolution

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Women before, during and after the 25th

January Revolution


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Women shoulder to shoulder

In all revolutions

women work

together with men,

fearless they face

the police brutality

They deserve the

same treatmentafter the revolution

succeeds


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Women before and during the

RevolutionAt the beginning

Asmaa Mahfouz was a

young female who was

one of the instigators viaYoutube

On Facebook and the

other social media outlets

many young women

called for others to join


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Women : During the Revolution

Women of all ages

participated and were

shoulder to shoulder with

men

Women of different

religions and

backgrounds went to the

square


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MATURE WOMEN

PROTESTERS


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YOUNG WOMEN

PROTESTERS


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Demonstrating: women of every

age


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Demonstrating : women of every

age, education and class


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Women of every age : familiar


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Women : During the Revolution

Women played

different roles, in

the medical center,

as bloggers, as

awareness leaders

Women were

among the

planners, the

implementers, thecommittees, the

protesters etc


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In every language and every

dress


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Demonstrating : women of

every age, education and class


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They also died like men : THE FIRST

MARTYR BRUTALLY BEATEN BY RIOT POLICE:SALLY ZAHRAN

They deserve to have an equal say in our

future


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What did I do?

1st February

went to TS with

Luzette, met

groups

Joined

Awareness

committee and

Health committee


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What did I do? 3rd 11 visits to hospitals and

monitoring medical care

3rd 11th helping the

awareness committee with

their flyers and connectingthem to leaders

Transporting their flyers to

square with Peter- story?

Created the page supportersto revolutionaries with Vibha

(Gandhi Mandela)


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What is now and what about

the future ?First revolutionaries and activists:

The young revolutionaries are not political

parties, not CSOs and not human right

groups They are the weighting generation

They are now organizing themselves and

negotiating with the army on future action They are using the same media tools and

channels to create the groups around their

different plans/programs


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the future : Ashoka fellows A meeting in the Ashoka office with a group of Fellows

was held on the 13th February

We are documenting by video and other means their

experiences and how they contributed to the

revolutionaries

We are working with them to create on our Facebook a

list of their expertise and know how that they are

offering to the revolutionaries

ADEW began a competition for a design by youth for a

memorial monument in the square

ADEW and myself are still monitoring the hospitals

and have cases of success (Nasser hospital

demerdash hospital)


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the future : The womenquestion With womens CSOs , ADEW and a number of female

Ashoka fellows: we are campaigning to defendwomens rights

We wrote about women's contribution to the revolution

and lobbying for their inclusion (articles, letters to the

high council of armed forces, interviews on the

different medias and groups on Facebook and the

other new social media)


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Specific Recommendations for the

future leaders by women groups 30-50% of your

membership and your

leadership positions

should be for women

Ensure that your

decisions are based on a

real assessment of the

situation of all citizens in

this country ; whetherwomen, or Christians

That Egypt will be built

by both women and men.


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Recommendations

All media especially

radio and television

should interview

women as much as

men, put women inyour pictures,

interviews,

programs, talk

shows and inwhatever you do to

confirm that women

were beside men in

every step


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Recommendations

Western media

should locally

interview all

types of womennot

sensationalize it

by going to

veiled womenonly


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We will continue working to

defend women and their

children rights

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