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Mounira Charrad, "States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco" University of California Press, 2001 ISBN 978-0-520-22576-3 Paula Holmes-Eber, "Daughters of Tunis: Women, Family, and Networks in a Muslim City", Westview Press, 2001 ISBN 0-8133-3944-8
One year ago, Tunisia passed a groundbreaking law on violence against women. But activists are still struggling to change the broader culture One Year Ago, Tunisia Passed a Groundbreaking Law to ...
The National Union of Tunisian Women (Arabic: الاتحاد الوطني للمراة التونسية, romanized: al-Ittiḥād al-Waṭanī lil-Marʼah al-Tūnisīyah; French: Union Nationale de la Femme Tunisienne, UNFT) is a non-governmental organization in Tunisia founded in 1956. [1] [2] [3] The current UNFT president is Radhia Jerbi. [4 ...
The Tunisian Association of Democratic Women was officially founded on the 6th of August 1989. It is an independent organization that criticises Muslim influences on society, a lack of democracy and violations of women's rights. It judges the development on women's rights in Tunisia according to international standards like the Convention on ...
On February 9, 1994, "Tunisian Women's Day" was organized by the French senate under the title "Tunisia, an Assumed Modernity." Soon after a debate held in June 1997 at the European Parliament on the situation of the rights of Tunisian women, some Tunisian women were sent to Strasbourg to give Europe another view of their country.
Women activists and feminist organisations organise an annual Women March (2012 shown) National Women's Day (Arabic: عيد المرأة) is celebrated in Tunisia every year on August 13. It commemorates the day of adoption of the Code of Personal Status in Tunisia, [1] [2] [3] the 13th of August in 1956, the year of independence in Tunisia.
Tunisia was upgraded to "Partly Free" after the revolution (often associated with the so-called Arab Spring, with its political rights rating improved from 7 to 3 (with 7 the worst and 1 the best) and its civil liberties rating going from 5 to 4. [1] As of 2016, Tunisia has been upgraded to "Free"—the only Arab country to receive this rating. [2]
Azza Ghanmi is a Tunisian feminist and activist engaged in the advancement of women's rights in Tunisia. In 1978, Ghanmi was a co-founder of Club d'Etude de la Condition de la Femme at the Club Tahar Haddad. [1]