Entisar Elsaeed
Entisar Elsaeed (also spelled Entessar El-Saeed, Intisar al-Saeed) is an Egyptian activist for women's rights and is the founder and director of the Cairo Foundation for Development and Law. Her foundation and mission primarily focus on curbing female genital mutilation, helping victims of domestic abuse, and providing sexual education. Activism COVID-19 pandemic With the coming of the COVID-19 pandemic, Elsaeed and her foundation focused on increasing domestic abuse inflicted on many women. With lockdown orders keeping men away from work and in homes for more hours of the day, the rate of domestic abuse was predicted to rise. Additionally, sexual education suffered during the pandemic, resulting in growing inability to access safe sexual information. Finally, the responsibility for keeping family members safe and socially distanced was observed to most frequently fall on the mother of the household, along with general responsibility for the health and care of the family. As a result, Elsaeed's foundation increased its output of educational material on all three of these issues, which allowed them to continue to make an impact while still adhering to safe COVID protocols. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/EgyptianWomenCOVID-19.aspx Female genital mutilation Elsaeed has spoken out against female genital mutilation (FGM) in Egypt, which has the