Witness - Children Who Don't Exist - Part 2

In Egypt only a father can legally register a child, leaving many without an identity.

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[vivaloriflamme]

This channel does really good work.

[zoeyjusko]

@kirmour: You shouldn't judge those women like that. It is very cold-hearted. Those women are from a very cruel culture. They were never taught to have self-respect and they're trapped in a vicious cycle. Women who step out of line are executed for some made up reason like infidelity or something. What they need is help.

[isditwelbeschikbaar]

@naasiib Girls are second class citizens.

Only boys matter.

[Nine00]

@kirmour In one part of the video it mentions that the one girls mother isn't registered either. I'm pretty certain that many of the grown women there aren't registered, which means that they cannot work and NEED the support of a husband. 

[kirmour]

@Nine00 so you mean the women who initially got into orfy marriage did it because they too are unregistered women born from previous orfy marriage?

[Nine00]

@kirmour If they do not have papers they have the choice between not getting married at all or a not registered marriage and since having no papers means that they can't go to work they are unable to support themselves and NEED a man to do so. It's a vision circle.

[kirmour]

@zinab2blessa I was in Egypt on holiday in 2005 december, I loved it, it seemed like a very forward society with music, dance, movies, arts, so much culture, heritage... the people were so warm and nice..

[kirmour]

@zinab2blessa though I must add, I dont pity the women, they wouldnt have got into these kind of not registered marriages if they had some self-respect.

But am wondering, what about the children? they will never have a normal life... why are the children stuck with the mothers, abandoned by the father? that is unfair in sharia law no?

[ammusi]

inshallah Arabic men will get some brains

[naasiib]

that is unfair. The government should do something about it. Why the girls only are not registered.