More Arab females join women’s rights movement to demand equality

Al Arabiya News 11 October 2012
By Katherine Jane O’Neill

More Arab women are joining a women’s rights movement group to demand change and equality. While revolutions swept through some Arab countries and toppled dictators in all of Tunisia and Egypt, women were still mistreated by both the revolutionists who promised fundamental change as well as regime supporters.

Four females hailing from different Arab states used Facebook to start the "Uprising of Women in the Arab World” movement on October 1, 2011 to lift oppression and break silence and fear endured by Arab women. (continue reading...)