, by BELHADJ Ahlem, DAHER Joseph
In Tunisia, major mobilizations led by feminist organizations have taken place in recent weeks to demand full equality in the law, particularly with regard to the Tunisian Personal Status Code (CSP). The CSP consists of a series of legal provisions governing marital relations between men and (...)
, by CANAVAN Kristen
On June 3rd, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (Euro-Med) hosted a conference entitled “Forms of Violence Against Women and Girls” to discuss the Tunisian Personal Status Code and Penal Code – both of which are long overdue for reform. Critical yet optimistic, the proposed goals for legal (...)
, by CHAVEZ Josefina
Gender Violence Alerts are a new tool with which human rights, feminist and civil society organizations in Mexico have sought to stop escalating levels of violence against women by forcing the government to devote more resources to anti-violence campaigns.
Introduction
Under a 2006 law (...)
, par BELHADJ Ahlem, SULEHRIA Farooq
In the run up to International Women’s Day on March 8 we aim to publish a number of articles on women’s resistance internationally. Farooq Sulehria interviewed Feminist and revolutionary Ahlem Belhadj for the Swedish feminist magazine Feministiskt Perspective.
Socialist Resistance WOMEN’S RIGHTS (...)
, by GRAMI Amel, SABRA Martina
The Arab revolutions are calling traditional gender roles into question. In this interview with Martina Sabra, Tunisian intellectual Amel Grami tells how strong women in Tunisia are resisting the Islamisation efforts of both the ruling Ennahda Party and the Salafists. ------------
Martina (...)
, by BELHADJ Ahlem, ROGEZ Olivier
In Tunisia, Amina remains in prison. The young Femen, who had posed bare-breasted on social networks, was arrested in possession of a teargas bomb, leading to her trial. On Thursday May 30, 2013, new and more serious charges were notified to her, notably that of association with malefactors. (...)
, by MHADHBI Amira
The Tunisian experience with state feminism is a model to draw lessons from, especially for the Arab-Muslim countries whether governed by liberal autocratic regimes or Islamist regimes: whenever the regime talks in favour of women, read between the lines.
As a young Tunisian feminist living in (...)
, par Assemblée pour la Charte des principes de l’Autre Europe, BARON Alain, BELHADJ Ahlem, FITOUSSI Eve
Ahlem Belhadj, President of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD), spoke to Eve Fitoussi and Alain Baron for Afriques21 in January 2012 about the current situation of women in Tunisia. Eve Fitoussi, Alain Baron – What kind of discrimination is suffered by women ? What is there s (...)
, by WHITAKER Brian
Tunisia is the first country in the region to withdraw reservations to the UN convention granting equal rights to men and women.
reddit this Last December, Tunisians rose up against their dictator, triggering a political earthquake that has sent shockwaves through most of the Middle East and (...)
, by BELHASSEN Souhayr
Interview of Souhayr Belhassen, FIDH [Fédération internationale des droits de l’Homme – International Human Rights Federation] President by Égalité. How did Tunisian women participate in the revolution ?
Souhayr Belhassen – Throughout the month of protests in Tunisia we saw a huge presence of women (...)
, by Collective
On Saturday 29th of January there was a big demonstration arranged by independent women’s rights organizations in Tunisia.
Due to this occasion 155 Iranian women’s rights activists in a letter showed their solidarity with the Tunisian women and their struggles to preserve their achievements with (...)
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