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Nazra for Feminist Studies
Nazra for Feminist Studies is a group based in Egypt working on the advancement and development of feminist movement in the Middle East and North Africa.

The group advocates for feminism and gender as they believe it's political and social issues that impact freedom and development in all societies.

History
Nazra for Feminist Studies was founded in 2005 in Cairo by the Egyptian Women Rights Activist Mozn Hassan. The group was registered as an association on 28 December 2007.

Their Work
Nazra for Feminist Studies works on advancing feminist movement and providing support to all actors who strive to achieve progress in gender-related issues in many ways:

1- Producing knowledge on women’s and gender rights based on documentation, research, and analysis in addition to working on Arabic terminology that is strongly connected to those causes.

2- Supporting women human rights defenders through providing legal, psychological and medical support.

3- Supporting women’s political participation and their contributions to the public spheres in order to mobilize women’s rights as social and political rights.

4- Working on strategic litigation in relation to gender rights within the Egyptian, regional and international legal systems in addition to working on policies and legal reform from a feminist perspective.

5- Launching campaigns that would aim at engaging women’s and gender issues within the political, legal, cultural and social agendas.

6- Providing opportunities of networking among young feminist groups in order to contribute to the continuity and the decentralization of the feminist movement.

7- Supporting the role of arts in addressing feminism and gender rights.

8- Launching initiatives that aim at engaging young men and women in order to mainstream feminist consciousness and culture.

9- Providing psychological, legal and medical support to women survivors of sexual violence in the public sphere.

10- Supporting bodily safety and freedoms from a gender perspective.