- Honaida Yassir leaves her house at 7 am to reach work on time in one of the most traffic-chocked cities in the world. Three times a week, she comes to Al-Rehab City, one of Cairo's gated communities to work for a Sudanese family . The rest of the week she works for an Egyptian family in Nasr City, an area for relatively well-off Egyptians. For six days every week, she works as a domestic worker to support her family of four. At 21, she is the sole bread-winner in her household. “I came here alone in 2004, I knew my husband from Sudan ,he came here in 2003 and I followed him. I left my entire family behind and came here to marry him and move to a developed country…

- It was at a family gathering that my aunt first told me about E and her tragic story. She knew I would sympathize. You should come with me to visit her, she said. I told her I was interested. Any act of violence against women breaks my heart. E wasn’t beaten or assaulted, it was even worse. My aunt, a dedicated activist is committed to helping women in prison. E, a beautiful young mother now calls women’s prison in Omdurman her home. The prison is known for the fact that most women there are convicted of selling or making alcohol. Selling Alcohol is against the law in Sudan, if caught; the punishment ranges from a few weeks to a few years. Al-Manar, an NGO working with wo…