Egypt’s women run to end violence, change social norms

“Hundreds” of Egyptian women took to Heliopolis’ streets on Friday for a run around to campaign for ending violence against women and call for greater acceptance of women running in public, Reuters reports. It is not commonplace for women to exercise outside the confines of membership-based sporting clubs in Egypt, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation named Cairo as the world’s most dangerous city for women last year, the newswire notes.