Based on the Urban Studies Foundation fund awarded to a joint group from Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University and Faculty of Engineering, Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Smart Village Campus, the team organizes a series of seminars—Cairo, April 2019 and January 2020— to address women’s right to the city, especially in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region. These seminars will discuss women’s rights within different subjects & will address various domains that are of close relationship to women’s rights and go beyond the three parameters of the United Nations’ Gender Inequality Index (GII) health, empowerment, and labor market. The discussions will look deep at the causes of the limited performance of MENA cities according to the GII and will pose a number of related questions. Are women’s rights respected within the design of the new cities? Are women’s rights taken into consideration while developing/ eradicating informal settlements? Is the female perspective regarded in public spaces? Do women have adequate transportation choices that enable them to actively engage in the labor market? All these issues will be discussed among various stakeholders from multidisciplinary backgrounds.
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A Seminar took place at AASTMT Smart Village Campus, the 26th of February 2020.