At long last! This has been in the works for years.
“Egypt’s cabinet approved on Wednesday a new anti-sexual harassment law…The cabinet had amended the law and sent it to the justice ministry for revision last month. The justice minister then revised it and sent it back to the government for final approval.
Previously, there had not been a specific law proscribing sexual harassment in Egypt. However, three articles in the penal code were sometimes applied in cases of sexual harassment.
The new draft states that a sexual harasser is one who “accosts others in a public or private place through following or stalking them, using gestures or words or through modern means of communication or in any other means through actions that carry sexual or pornographic hints.”
The new law punishes sexual harassment with a prison sentence, a fine or both.”
Thoughts?
