Saturday, June 25, 2011

In Cairo, drawn street map with the pristavuchimi men

Egyptian organizations defending the rights of women, offering up a special website that will host the electronic map of Cairo with marked on it "dangerous" streets. Under threat in this case means a high probability of harassment of young people to walk without men girls. According to a recent public opinion polls, 83% of Egyptian women and 98% of foreign women living in Cairo, at least once were victims of street harassment. With 62% of young men do not hide that regularly harass the girls alone in the streets, reports RIA Novosti. Not less hassle to tourists. According to human rights defenders, the danger of being subjected to sexual harassment on the street, forcing many women to abandon all walks of Cairo. But this - "a violation of their rights, than to fight the toughest measures," - they say. The new site, which will be called "Map of harassment, appear in the coming months. Any woman, to which pestered on city streets, or who has witnessed such harassment will be able to immediately notify the moderators of the portal. They mark the place of the offense on the map and will recommend the lonely ladies to avoid this street in the preparation of a pedestrian route. It is assumed that the works on the new site will be involved in leading lawyers and psychologists, and information about molesting will be immediately transferred to the Cairo police.

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