Egyptian citizens campaign against harassment of women

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/07/31/egypt-sex-harassment-women/13358169/
Egyptian citizens campaign against harassment of women
Sarah Lynch
Special for USA TODAY
July 31, 2014

CAIRO — A group of mostly teenagers and men took to the streets of Cairo's capital this week, ready to do battle — in bright green vests with spray paint in hand — against sexual harassers.

"We keep women safe," said high school student Mahmoud Adel, 17. "With perverts, we spray on the backs of their shirts: I am a harasser."

Dozens of civilians, including women, distributed leaflets to raise awareness about sexual harassment, criminalized for the first time in Egypt last month. Others in a separate campaign focused on catching and punishing harassers, some of whom landed in police detention.

The efforts mark an intensified focus by the Egyptian government and ordinary citizens to attack a problem that has made this country the worst in the Arab world in its treatment of women — even worse than Saudi Arabia, which is well known for limiting female rights....

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1. Progress

So refreshing in women's rights.

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2. Isn't it?

We've been dealt so many body blows lately even one sign of progress seems like a major victory.