The conference was organized by the Alliance for Arab Women। It was held in the Cairo International Conference Center on the 4th of June 2011 from 12 pm to 3 pm
The speakers for the first statement were: Dr। Hoda Bardan, Ambassador Mervat El-Telawy, and a young lady as a representative of the youth of the revolution।The conference was introduced by San'a Mansour
- Most Important Questions sent to the Conference Panel:
1) Why quota had been cancelled as being a kind of discrimination while keeping the 50% of the workers and peasants? What are the alternatives of quota?
2) Why the local councils have not been resolved yet?
3) Why the military council did not attend? Is it a deliberate marginalization? How we will fight against this?
4) How we guarantee women rights in the new constitution?
5) Does the fall of Suzan Mubarak mean the fall of Egyptian women?!
6) What are the benefits of having a new constitution before election?
7) How to deal with the claim of many religious groups that giving women the right to be in leadership position is against religions?
8) Why we do not have a feminist political party that is composed of 95% women and 5% men?
- Most Important Demands and Suggestions Resulted from the Conference:
1) To allocate part of the State budget for women. ( Azza Kamel)
2) To support The Women Coalition and to publish it's ideologies and thoughts.
3) To establish a special database for women problems.
4) Media campaign to support women issues.
5) To compose a committee to supervise the Women Union election in which all women have the right to join. ( Ikbal Baraka)
6) Special committees for women within all police stations, and to support police women ( the same demand is asked by women committee in the Egyptian Social Democratic Party)
7) Social and political awareness campaigns for women in all provinces.
8) The restructuring of the National Council for Women.
9) Civil State.
10) A new constitution.
11) A political representation of women through the proportional list system
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