Illustration. (REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)... it is important for the President to Morsi take measures to end the culture of impunity is drastic and gender-based discrimination.Cairo (Reuters)-protesters on Tuesday, Egypt again took to the streets to demand an end to sexual violence, along with a growing campaign against repeated attacks in downtown Cairo.
"The voice of women is a revolution," said the protesters--both men and women — who shouted while brandishing a large flag icons women Egypt.
At Tuesday's protest is the latest in a series of actions to an end to the culture of impunity that demands, following the horrific attack reports in and around Tahrir square.
The attack was a "weapon in the ongoing political war," said Mayar Abdel Aziz, who blamed "opponents of freedom" were behind them.
Sexual harassment has long been a problem in Egypt but recently the nature of the violence and frequency of attacks has increased so that the trigger guard.
"We're conditioned to be passive and not asking for our rights," before the revolution, said Abdel Aziz.
The protesters were also angry over the remarks of Assembly members over who blame women because of attacks on fishing themselves.
"Women sometimes provoke the rape upon herself by putting themselves in a position that makes them as the subject of rape," said Adel Afifi Salafi Deputies quoted by the local media.
Last week, the human rights watchdog Amnesty International issued a statement urging President Mohamed Morsi to take action in order to end the attacks.
"It's horrible, violent attacks against women including rape around Tahrir square shows that it is important for the President to Morsi take measures to end the culture of impunity is drastic and gender-based discrimination, and that all political leaders are talking," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Director of Amnesty for the Middle East and North Africa.
AFP reported, at rallies in Cairo, women talked about the attacks that are "systematically".
"We are always experiencing harassment (in Egypt). But the new thing is that violence has become systematic, "said Asmaa Ali that led the group to combat that problem.
"Harassment is a polite Word. We need to call it sexual assault. even a rape has occurred in the field group Tahrir, "he said.
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