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Speak Up is a feminist initiaive that works through social networks to identify aggressors of gender violence, sexual harassment and rape.

Activities
Speak Up encourages women to speak out about harassment , provide legal and emotional support. It also pressures authorities to prosecute and change laws, and highlights narritives of rape culture in the media. Speak Up was involed in the criminalization of Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt in March 2021 and the prosecution of Michael Fahmy for sexually assaulting 6 girls.

Awards
Gehad Hamdy, an Egyptian dentist and feminist activist working against gender based violence who founded Speak Up in 2020 has been nominated for several awards for Speak Up.


 * BBC’s 100 Most Influential Women in the World, 2022
 * Gold Award Winner: Social Change Maker of the Year in Gender by The Stevie Awards, 2022
 * Finalist for the Equal Rights and Non-Discrimination award at the World Justice Forum, 2022
 * Finalist for Aidex Humanitarian Hero Award, 2022
 * The Changemaker and The Humanitarian awards by Women SME Leaders Awards by Entrepreneur Middle East and Mastercard, 2022
 * International Humanitarian award by Women4Africa, 2021
 * Finalist for the Women Empowerment Award by Africa Women Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF), 2021

She is also one of the leaders of Connecting Humanity, an activist collective which provides internet access to people in Gaza using donated eSIMs, allowing them to connect to networks outside of Gaza.