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Countless Moroccan women continue to face abuse and sexual violence at the hands of their husbands. About 6 million women in Morocco are victims of violence, or around one in three.
Morocco’s Social Development Minister Bassima Hakkaoui, the only female minister in the country, says she would try to push forward a law protecting women that has been stuck in Parliament for eight years.
Read more at Bikya.
Arabic version by the international network Women Living Under Muslim Laws here.
The Lebanese organisation ABAAD breaks new ground with its innovative work on masculinities giving insights into – for example – how gender inequalities are transformed and violence is reduced when men become agents of change.
Read more at WILPF’s Mena Agenda 1325.
Arabic version here.
Arab women in leading positions in their fields of medicine, human rights, media and business, speaks about the role of women in the changes taking place as a result of the Arab Spring.
Listen to the radio programme at ABC.
Reports say that Amina Tyler – the Tunisian activists baring her breasts on Facebook – has been arrested for writing ‘Femen’, on a cementery wall in the holy town on Kairouan in Tunisia. Femen is a feminist organisation from Ukraine.
Read more at watch video at Huffington Post.
The Women Human Rights Defenders program at Nazra for Feminist Studies is launching its manual on Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) tailored specifically for an Egyptian context.
The manual includes sections on Egyptian legislation and military verdicts used to constrain public action; regional and international mechanisms that WHRDs can utilize to report violations committed against them; and security tips that can be of special use during perilous circumstances.
Nazra is a partner organisation to KVINFO.
Read more at Nazra for Women's Studies.
Tunisia
Tunisia
Tunisia achieved independency from France in 1956, and a one-party state was established by the president Habib Bourgiba. In 1987 Bourgiba was removed from power and replaced by Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
After a shorter period of massive popular uprisings president Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on January 14 2011 after 23 years of ruling the country, and the successful Tunisian revolution sparked a wave of protests and regime changes in the Middle East.
The first election after Ben Ali’s fall took place on October 23 2011, appointing members to a Constituent Assemblyassigned to rewrite Tunisia’s constitution. The Islamic party Ennahda won 41 percent of the total vote.
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| Total population | 10,629,186 |
| Female population | 5,326,769 |
Total 0-14 years (women) | |
Total 15-64 years (women) | |
Total 65 years and over |
| Life expectancy at birth (women) | 77,17 |
| Fertility rate | 2,03 |
| Total literacy rate | 78% |
| Total literacy rate among females | 78% |
| School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) for women | 15 years |
| Female enrolment at higher education* | 59,5% |
*Higher education is the degree after achieving the high-school diploma
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By Nadia Zaabi & Rikke Hostrup Haugbølle