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Egypt: Comic Stories Against Harassment

October 29, 2015 By HKearl

Imprint Movement's new campaign. October 2015

Our friends at Imprint Movement, in collaboration with Al-Moltqa for Consulting and Training, launched a new anti-harassment campaign in Cario’s subways yesterday.

Their press release says:

“The campaign aims aims to communicate to subway passengers and security personnel how sexual harassment affects the entire Egyptian society and not only the girl or the woman who gets sexually harassed.

Imprint has chosen a new approach to draw attention, “Comic Stories”. The comic stories address the challenges that women face created by sexual harassment, the victim blaming culture, to what extend do women and girls feel safe in public space, reactions of the public, its reflection on her personal and professional life and how that effects the entire society. Many posters will be put up to show how the crime of sexual harassment increases when the public don’t interfere to support the girl/woman who get sexually harassed.
The comic story will be circulating around the Cairo subway, It’s Now at Al-Shohadaa, Then it will take place at Mohamed Naguib then Al-Sadat and finally Al-Attaba  metro stations. Twelve posters will be put up at Helwan University station, Manshyet Al Sadr Station and Cairo university station as these station are considered to have the most activity and gets huge amount of people daily.

The launching of “What will you do?” campaign is 24th of October, 2015 and ends on the 15th of February 2016.”

Congratulations to them on this innovative campaign!

Learn more about the campaign and see photos here.

Via the Guardian: An illustration depicting a young woman’s experience on a minibus. Illustration: Ahmed Nahby/Mada Masr/Imprint
Via the Guardian: An illustration depicting a young woman’s experience on a minibus. Illustration: Ahmed Nahby/Mada Masr/Imprint

UPDATE: The Guardian has a great feature article about their campaign. Here is an excerpt:

“Imprint, the organisation behind the campaign, has been raising awareness of sexual harassment through events ranging from one-on-one conversations to workshops, co-founder Abdel Fattah al-Sharkawy explained.

He said participants – both male and female – often found they weren’t aware of what constitutes sexual harassment, and rarely related the term to their own day-to-day experiences.

‘We wanted to make that link’ through the comic campaign, he said.

The group decided to work with comics because ‘they’re catchy and colourful’, drawing people of all ages in to explore the stories they tell, Sharkawy added.

Another image from the series shows male passengers on a minibus reacting to the young woman.

‘This woman can be an influential person in your life,’ the illustration reads. ‘Sexual harassment doesn’t harm her alone, it harms us all.’

They differ from typical public service announcements because they rely on storytelling instead of propagandistic slogans, so they ‘make you think and form an opinion,’ he said.”

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Egypt: Successful “Eid without Harassment” Campaign

August 12, 2013 By Contributor

By Nihal Saad Zaghloul, Co-Founder of Imprint Movement in Egypt who gave me permission to share this here.

This is our media statement of what happened during 9th and 10th of August on Talaat harb.

Imprint Movement and Anti-Sexual Harassment movement launched a campaign called “Eid without Harassment” which took place on Talaat harb square and street on the 9th and 10th of August from 4 until 10 p.m.

We divided ourselves between three teams: patrolling, awareness, and operations. We spoke and interacted with bystanders about the importance of rejecting this crime and rejecting violence.

Achievements:

* The prevention of 65 individual (verbal and physical) sexual harassment incidents
* The prevention of five mass harassment incidents.
* Two reports filed at the Tahrir police station.
* 70 people volunteered

We continue to work relentlessly on finding a grass root solution for this crime through the effective participation of the entire society. 

Help us build a better community.

Imprint Team.

Photos: Day1  | Day 2 

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Patrols Against Harassment in Egypt

August 22, 2012 By HKearl

Harassers Via Egypt Independent

Eid-ul-Fitr, or Eid, is the holiday at the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and in Egypt, it’s sadly become synonymous with sexual harassment.

This year, there have been volunteers organized by the Imprint Movement patrolling the streets and subway stations, watching out for harassers. They’ve helped police arrest several harassers each day.

The Egypt Independent reported on the problem and published numerous photos of harassers and harassment.

“The sexual harassment wave continued in Downtown Cairo and other places during Eid. This comes as government officials and activists have asked for clear solutions to the problem that continues to be one of Egypt’s overwhelming distress.

Several anti-harassment campaigns collecting reports said that the highest numbers of cases were reported near Maspero, Talaat Harb Street. 26 July Street, the Sadat, Ataba and Shuhada metro stations and the neighborhoods of Mohandiseen, Moqattam, Heliopolis and Nasr City.”

Via the Imprint Movement

Nihal Zaghloul ‏(@NihalSaad) is one of the main organizers and wrote about what happened  (Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3).

“I am personally happy about it and we are looking into organizing more patrols but we still dont know when. Those patrols are not the solution for harassment it is a pain killer as a result we must try to find that solution. I am still unsure of what is a grass root solution but for now i think filing reports and having them pay fines will perhaps make the harassment less.

I urge every girl who got harassed to file a report and not to leave it or ignore, it is OUR RIGHT as women to walk in the streets safely and NO ONE will give us this right we must take it ourselves.”

Visit the event Facebook page to see an album of the patrollers in action.

While there have been campaigns against harassment before over Eid, I like that this one was offline, in the streets, and visibly showed that harassment is not okay and that there are a lot of people willing to volunteer their time to try to stop it.

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Filed Under: News stories, street harassment Tagged With: Cairo, Eid, EndSH, imprint movement, patrols, street harassment

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