The House of Representatives is discussing additional amendments to the inheritance law that would see the formation of judicial body “specifically tasked with actually restituting inheritances to their rightful heirs,” Walaa Hussein writes for Al-Monitor. The new draft comes just six months after the government amended the law to “punish anyone who deliberately denies an inheritance to those entitled to it.” A 2010 survey of 200 women in Egypt found that 59% of them did not receive any inheritance. “Social traditions and habits force women to accept any sum of money, even if not equivalent to the value of their share of the inheritance, for fear of being hated by their own family,” said secretary of the House Committee on Media, Culture and Antiquities Ghada Sakr.