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Women taking part in a pro-democracy sit-in in Sitra, Bahrain. Women played a variety of roles in the Arab Spring, but its impact on women and their rights is unclear. The Arab Spring was a series of demonstrations, protests, and civil wars against authoritarian regimes that started in Tunisia and spread to much of the Arab world.
Since the December 2010 revolution in Tunisia and protests across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) began, Tunisian women have played an unprecedented part in the protests. Habib Bourguiba began instituting secular freedoms for women in 1956, such as access to higher education, the right to file for divorce, and certain job opportunities.
In Tunisia, due to tourism coming to a halt and other factors during the revolution and Arab Spring movement, the budget deficit has grown and unemployment has risen since 2011. [340] According to the World Bank in 2016, "Unemployment remains at 15.3% from 16.7% in 2011, but still well above the pre-revolution level of 13%."
The debate surrounding the name and the poetic influences behind the Tunisian revolution was a popular question among Tunisian intellectuals. [34] The name adopted in Tunisia was the Dignity Revolution, which is a translation of the Tunisian Arabic name for the revolution, ثورة الكرامة (Thawrat al-Karāmah). [35]
Tunisian women by century (2 C) W. Women's rights in Tunisia (3 C, 5 P) This page was last edited on 25 August 2024, at 13:03 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The economic development of the French protectorate required the formation of a Tunisian middle class; this group felt divorced from political and public life in the country. [6] Some of the Tunisian elite, now with greater contact with Europe, began trying to reconcile Islam with modern European ideas. [ 7 ]
Tunisia on Thursday commemorated the 10th anniversary since the flight into exile of iron-fisted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was pushed from power in a popular revolt that foreshadowed ...
The Tunisian Revolution [94] [95] was an intensive campaign of civil resistance that was precipitated by high unemployment, food inflation, corruption, [96] a lack of freedom of speech and other political freedoms [97] and poor living conditions.