Clandestine abortion in Algeria. An absolute taboo.
Observers and journalists hailed the health law promulgated in 2018 as an important step forward for the right to abortion in Algeria. But in reality, there is nothing revolutionary about...
Ghania, a Sorbonne graduate, is the former editor-in-chief of the Algerian daily newspaper “Liberté” and a political journalist. She is also in charge of gender equality missions in France where she resides.
Ghania holds a postgraduate degree on the work and career of Kateb Yacine, and was the first to sign the retrospective devoted to him, titled “Kateb Yacine, poèmes et éclats”, back in 1991 in Algiers, at the very beginning of Algeria’s “Black Decade.” Ghania has also been regularly contributing to babelmed.net since its creation as a specialist in Algerian society and its fabric.
Observers and journalists hailed the health law promulgated in 2018 as an important step forward for the right to abortion in Algeria. But in reality, there is nothing revolutionary about...
Perceived as second-class citizens by the Family code, Algerian female activists are however as eligible for arrest as much as men. Meet Aouicha, Samira, Dalila and others in this article.
Women prefer to pay financial compensations to redeem their freedom than to stay in undesirable relationships, thus taking the Islamo-conservatives into their own trap. Algerian lawyer Nadia Ait-Zaï elucidates the...
The Hirak is a popular and unifying movement but is it feminist? Considered as sacrilegious for some, the issue must be addressed as women should no longer be overlooked by...
Women who then dared to claim equal rights were treated as “westernised”, “prostitutes”, “disbelievers” and “girls of the French party”. The argument that the Family Code was in contradiction with...
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