Africa's Grand Guest - Women's Rights in Tunisia: "The Risk Is that the Conservative Discourse Will Resettle and Normalize"
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In Tunisia, 13 August marks the National Women's Day and the anniversary of the promulgation of the Personal Status Code, adopted a few months after independence on 13 August 1956. This founding text enshrined several major rights for Tunisian women. But almost 70 years later, this day also remains a moment of mobilization for feminist associations, which denounce persistent inequalities and violence.
The discourse of the internet's underworld, experts warn, contributes to naturalize this type of opinion in society
Tunisian Women's Day, which falls on August 13th each year, coincides with Tunisian women commemorating 70 years of polygamy. The Ministry of Family, Women, Children, and the Elderly launched a special program running from August 6th to 13th across various governorates. This program included honoring female researchers and successful women, seminars on the image of women in the media, exhibitions of women's products, the awarding of the Zoubeida…
70 years ago to the day, on 13 August 1956, Tunisia adopted its Personal Status Code, one of the most progressive texts in the Arab world for women's rights: prohibition of polygamy, judicial divorce that may also be at the initiative of women, mandatory consent of women to marriage. Today, as Tunisia celebrates its National Women's Day, what remains of this legacy and what are the struggles of Tunisian feminists? Hela Ben Salem, Secretary Gener…
A queen who founded a city. A patron who turned her fortune into a social work. An activist who organized women in the national movement. A doctor who opened up a field for Tunisian women that was still almost exclusively male. A parliamentarian who entered one of the first political spaces reserved for men. Tunisian history included several women whose role was not simply "the first". They moved the limits of what a woman could do at their time…
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