Not a Lack of Cases, but a Lack of Will: Just 2 Verdicts in over a Decade of Discrimination Lawsuits
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In Egypt, a hotelier refuses a woman's booking and check-in in a single room. That's discrimination, says a court. Now the man has to go to prison and pay a fine.
For the first time, a punishment for discrimination against women has been imposed in Egypt.
Not a lack of cases, but a lack of will: Just 2 verdicts in over a decade of discrimination lawsuits
Monday’s court ruling convicting a hotel manager in Port Said for discrimination after he refused to let a single woman book a room has been celebrated as one of the first implementations of penalties against discrimination that were introduced over a decade ago. The only other, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, was a case filed by a Chinese national in 2020. Why are anti-discrimination rulings so rare? Public debate regu…
It is the first time that a punishment for discrimination against women has been issued in the country
A hotel manager in Egypt has been sentenced to a year in prison and fined the equivalent of around 800 euros for refusing to accommodate a woman traveling alone. Journalist Alaa Saad attempted to book a single room in the city of Port Said in January, but the manager refused. After a court ruled in March that this did not constitute gender discrimination, an appeals court has now overturned that decision.
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