Reuters MOHAMED ABD EL GHANY
The Women and Memory Forum in Egypt launched the hashtag “The mandate is my right”, in which the country’s women expressed their opposition to the draft Personal Status Law submitted to Parliament.
The foundation said in a statement: “We are appalled by what has been reported in the media about the proposal for a new draft law on the personal status of Muslims because of the discriminatory texts it contains denying women legal capacity in violation of the constitution and the lived reality of Egyptian women in the twenty-first century.”
She added, “We are now in dire need of a law that achieves justice for all family members and preserves the best interests of children, a law that recognizes the guardianship of a rational woman over herself and her children, a law that regulates marriage, divorce, alimony and custody procedures before the court on the basis of justice, mercy and non-discrimination.”
Among the articles included in the law are Article 6, which gives her guardian the right to challenge the marriage contract and its dissolution under the clause of inequality, and Article 89 of the draft that prohibits the mother from traveling without the father’s permission, while it does not place restrictions on the father in the event that the child is with him or hosting him, as well as Article 103 of the bill related to guardianship over the minor’s money, which gave the draft law guardianship for the father and then for the grandfather and did not mention the mother.
Hundreds of women interacted on the hashtag, which sparked widespread controversy in Egyptian society, and on social media.
Source: “Al-Masry Al-Youm”
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