Women's Rights in Egypt

In the past week, the nation of Iran has drafted new laws that are outlawing voluntary sterilization for women, no longer allowing birth control and making it more difficult for women without children to get jobs. According to the article written by BBC (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31828123), if these laws are passed, it would set women’s rights progressing back decades. In the second article written by the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/world/middleeast/as-egypt-birthrate-rises-population-policy-vanishes.html?_r=0), Egypt has seen a large increase in population. Population control used to be relatively regulated, but the Egyptian people have recently seen less government control on allowing women to use contraception.

The large population increases that are occuring in Egypt and could occur rapidly in Iran are major threats to the nations cities. With larger populations and weak economies, these countries are on the path to even poorer circumstances for their people.