“Tomorrow at dawn, I’ll go back to the fields” (1/2)
At a time when men are abandoning farming, the workers on the fields of Regueb are now armies of women ensuring food security for all Tunisians while still underpaid, uninsured...
Olfa Belhassine is a Tunisian journalist who has been working with the Tunisian daily “La Presse” since 1990. After the 2011 protests, her articles started appearing in “Libération”, “Le Monde” and “Courrier International”, a testament to her extensive experience as a journalist reporting from Tunisia during President Ben Ali's rule and after his fall. In 2013, Olfa was awarded the first journalism prize of the “Center of Arab Women” for her investigative work on customary marriage in Tunisia, published in “La Presse.” Olfa has also been corresponding since 2015 for the JusticeInfo.net, a website specializing in transitional justice around the world. Olfa Belhassone and Hedia Barkat have published a book titled 'Ces nouveaux mots qui font la Tunisie' (These new words that make Tunisia), providing an in-depth exploration of the political transition in Tunisia after the revolution.
At a time when men are abandoning farming, the workers on the fields of Regueb are now armies of women ensuring food security for all Tunisians while still underpaid, uninsured...
Handling insecticides with their faces uncovered. When paid, it’s half the amount men receive. Their work is still overlooked by official statistics. They are thousands to take the road to...
In this short interview, Sana Ben Achour, President of the Beity Association, answers one simple question: is the Tunisian government doing enough to protect women?
Fleeing the hell of trafficking and servitude, many African women find a home at “Beity”, a shelter in the medina, alongside single mothers, non-conforming women and victims of domestic violence.
The murder of a 26-year-old young woman by her husband, a National Guard officer, revives the debate on domestic violence in Tunisia. Feminists are calling upon the State to break...
#EnaZeda is the slogan of a campaign launched on social media networks in Tunisia in October 2019 to denounce sexual violence against women and men. The movement has since grown...
For the past ten years, the struggle of Tunisian women has been incessantly making small steps towards greater equality. Boosted by the breath of a new Constitution and the expectations...
How did my mother suddenly become the queen of social networks?
Often inspiring other women in the region, Tunisian women have obtained their rights and freedoms since their country gained independence in 1956. In times of democratic transition, Tunisian women are...
Assaulted, starved and driven from their homes... the Tunisian lockdown and confinement to the home have brought the fragility of women back to the surface. The legal system, supposed to...
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