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Political unstability in Egypt has a big effect on the initiative

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"It is only women who get's harrassed"
"Only physical harassment is real harassment"

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1. Addressing intersectional harassment.
- Making categories that makes sure you can report intersectional harassment
- Make sure that you can report without categories because your experience might not fit in one category.
2. Addressing the digital divide.
- More attention to the map through banners on toilets, changing rooms and so on (where you can put it up unseen)
- These banners should also show a way of reporting without internet (call, an address, etc.)
- Text-chains that can create a network
3. Adding myths
4. Integrate social media accounts (i.e. Facebook) with the website, advertising this reporting method and raise awareness of related harassments in more platforms.
5. Adressing the map

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- mainly people from big cities
- Not addressing digital access or skills

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Acknowledgement from a postcolonial perspective

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Acknowledgement from a postcolonial perspective

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- Local initiative and locally grounded
- Representation video only showing egyptians who all speak arabic
- Arabic langauge on the webpage

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- Mapping in itself has colonial connotations - creation of 'securitised spaces'
- situation of harassment in 'Arab culture'
- situated in a context of cultural explanations for sexual deviance rather than class-conscious explanations
- effective policing seen as goal, not as addition to the problem
- Goethe Institut as a multiplier - on its website it states that it is 'educating young egyptians to eventually take over themselves'

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- No adressing of racism, sexuality, dissability or class as a part of the harassment. The main concern is gender
(f.ex.: rape of political dissidents by police forces)
- They do consider religious clothing

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- how are people in Egypt connected to the internet
Datareport (2019): 38% of population active on mobile social media
39% of population are adverting audience on facebook, 36% of which are women
(https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2019-egypt)
- people scared of posting something because of family pressure? (to clear with a local person)
- how much are people willing to report?
- digital divide (male /female, old / young)
- awareness of sexual harassment in Egypt (what constitutes as such?)

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- government in Egypt makes it extremely hard to work publicly
- more of a shift into cooperation with the private sector as a result
- violence by police and military forces
- reporting being toned down in order to not endanger themselves

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- Junt@ : app to help women in emergencies f.ex. by sending encrypted calls for help
- SafePal: created at Hack For Youth in Uganda
- GenderWiki: arabic language platform on all things gender (initiative of the Goethe Institute)

Safe City is a platform that crowdsources personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public spaces in India.

Harasstracker is an online tool to track and document sexual harassment in Lebanon.

Ramallah Street Watch is working with reporting sexual harassment and with supporting survivors in Palestine.

Resist Harassment is working against sexual harassment in Lebanon.

Safe Streets has a sexual harassment reporting and alerting system in Yemen.

Bijoya has a reporting system, and is working to raise awareness in order to prevent sexual harassment in Bangladesh.

Name and Shame is working against sexual harassment in Pakistan and has a reporting system against it.

Women Under Siege is documenting sexualized violence in Syria.

Akshara/HarassMap India is working against sexual harassment in India.

SawtNsaa is working against sexual harassment in Algeria.

Activists and organizations in over 80 countries, including Jordan, Libya, Turkey, South Africa, US, Canada, Iran, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Cambodia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Kenya, Sudan, UK, India, Nigeria, and a cross-national group from South America are currently also working to set up their version of HarassMap.

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Internet users who embark on a quest for information on gender in the Arabic language, realise very quickly that there is little content available. Wiki-Gender, a collaborative and participatory knowledge platform, is here to change this. It diligently collects, adds and amends information on gender and women's issues in Arabic, and seeks to boost the discourse on these crucial topics. Wiki-Gender is available to the public free of charge, and thus constitutes a significant step to raise awareness, enhance knowledge and distribute information more widely on everything gender.

Wiki-Gender began in December 2016 to archive, integrate, and document text material and other content on gender and women's issues, ranging from academic over artistic to journalistic in style. Besides its function as a knowledge platform, Wiki-Gender also documents activities, groups, initiatives, projects and organisations concerned with gender and women's issues, and promotes the exchange of experience between the various actors in the two fields. Being publicly accessible and free of charge, it seeks to stimulate the discussion of questions about gender and equality amongst Arabic-speaking audiences.

As an initiative of the Goethe-Institut, Wiki-Gender is also supported by the Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF). Contents are generated thanks to contributions from many different gender and women's rights organisations, such as Ikhtiyar and from individual researchers in the field. Wiki-Gender is based on the work of volunteers and open to anyone who wishes to join the project.

The Wiki Gender is a project of the Goethe-Institut and supported by the German Federal Foreign Office.

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Translation: Jana Duman
Copyright: Goethe-Institut e. V.
July 2018

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Digital Arabic-Language Repository on Gender

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Internet users who embark on a quest for information on gender in the Arabic language, realise very quickly that there is little content available. Wiki-Gender , a collaborative and participatory knowledge platform, is here to change this. It diligently collects, adds and amends information on gender and women's issues in Arabic, and seeks to boost the discourse on these crucial topics.

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Sexual harassment is a crime according to Egyptian law! Article 306 (a) and article 306 (b).

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- Founded in 2010
- Run by volunteers
- Location and scope: Egypt

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Cairo University
Goethe Institute
NGOJobs (for outreach)
Ushahidi (for tech support)
Nazra Feminist Studies (for legal support)

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Step 1: establish belief that sexual harassment is the fault of the harasser and create rules of action for when it happens

Step 2: act on these beliefs and intervene, say stop, report the crime

Step 3: If enough people join it becomes harder to harass

Goal: zero tolerance as a goal and a decrease of sexual harassment in Egypt

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It can be very difficult (impossible) to report something so traumatic.     Meaning
1. The dark numbers must be very high 2. The act of mapping can be re-traumatising
- Using the terms harassed/harasser. You are being reduced to only that as your identity, taking away agency
- Problems with reaching men (2% of the reports)
- Problems with reaching people in general - falling number of reports and visitor.
- The webpage is a bit hard to navigate

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- myths debunked section
- focus on how every action counts
- not just a report of harassment but also of interventions
- changing the norm and people perception of sexual harassment
- Report by text, Twitter, facebook or the webpage
- You can sign up to help others report (digital access)
- Increase visibility
- Part of an onlinecommunity with people with the same offline experiences. You are able to comment and show support.
- Only local people in the video representing it
- Trying to say that harassment can both happen to men and women
- The webpage has a nice lay-out

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                                                                                   Mission: To engage all of Egyptian society to create an environment that does not tolerate sexual harassment.

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                                                                                   Mission: To engage all of Egyptian society to create an environment that does not tolerate sexual harassment.