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Have been 98 Egyptian women who have changed the history of the country. Almost a hundred Egyptian jurists who have been sworn in at a ceremony at the organization after the Supreme Council of Judicial Bodies ruled in favor in June. A unique event that occurs for the first time in the Arab country and after a long struggle to gain access to higher judicial bodies.

“After 75 years of the creation of the Council of State, women are joining the Council and will begin work immediately after taking the oath,” Hosamaldin highlighted at the event, according to the official news agency, MENA. “98 new judges were sworn in today before the president of the Council of State, Judge Mohamed Hosamaldin, which marks the beginning of their work in the Council, after they were transferred from the Administrative Prosecutor’s Office and the State Cases body,” the agency reported.

In Egypt, jurisdictional control of laws is the responsibility of the Supreme Court and the Council of State is responsible for administrative acts. The appointment of judges for the Council of State comes after the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al Sisi, ordered last March open the doors to women of the higher judicial bodies.

A milestone in Egypt

Iman Sharif, one of the new members of the organization, has pointed out that “the Council of State is a bastion of rights and freedoms.” “We swear that we will fulfill the responsibility and preserve the rights of Egyptian citizens“said the member, according to Europa Press sources.

For his part, Hind Ahmed stressed that it was “a great day”, as reported by the Egyptian newspaper ‘Egypt Today’. “We hope to be a good addition to the Council. The appointment is a victory for Egyptian women“he remarked.

The Council of State, created in 1946, had until now been made up only of men and had flatly rejected the inclusion of women. The Egyptian president, Abdel Fattá al Sisi, defended months ago the entry of women into this organization and in the Prosecutor’s Office, in the face of calls for greater equality.

The president was scheduled to attend the oath of office of the 98 women, but he finally traveled to Greece. His absence diminished the ceremony’s political importance, but not its symbolic importance. International and national media and social networks have echoed the news.

In 2014, the Egyptian Constitution included the access without “discrimination” of women to judicial positions in article 11, although until today it had not been applied in a country where they represent less than 1% of the judiciary. In recent years, several initiatives, such as Omnia Gadalla’s “Al Menasa Haqaha”, meaning “The stand is a right for her”, have pushed for female jurists could hold these positions, from which they were in practice banned.

Al Sisi has adopted several measures to integrate women into various labor sectors and to protect them from the scourge of sexual harassment, although on many occasions they have been aesthetic measures without impact on the lives of Egyptian women, who today have seen one of the president’s directives fulfilled.

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