In-depth

In light of the alarming numbers that confirm the rise in violence against women in Tunisia, especially domestic violence, a state of fear and caution has settled over the feminist community concerned about the entrenchment of patriarchal mentalities not only in society but in state institutions too, those not properly implementing Law No. 58 of 2017. This is a serious obstacle to women’s safety and turns their issues into marginal topics.

“Ahyini Liyoum waktolni ghedwa” (Make me live today and kill me tomorrow)—this popular saying is what S.D. sent us as a response to our asking her about retirement…

Marta Luceno Moreno, a feminist and researcher in gender, works on intersectionality and is particularly interested in the issue of migration of sub-Saharan women. An interview.

There needs to be interaction between feminist demands in the country of origin and feminist demands in France, Lalami claims, as this is a necessary step to remove obstacles and inequalities that weigh on immigrant women.

The new Asylum and Immigration bill—the 20th in 40 years—entitled “Controlling Immigration, Improving Integration” has already provoked major controversy against the political class and spurred the mobilization of associations defending the rights of foreigners.

In France, immigrant women are subject to the Algerian Family Code, the Moroccan Moudawana, and the Egyptian personal status law… a door open to all forms of discrimination.

Women have long been organizing collectively to counter the ways in which they are marginalized from the world of work and from decision-making positions, but in recent years, new networks have emerged and membership levels in existing networks have also significantly increased.

Children and women, the elderly, people living with disability… have all come to know that dumpsters are the only refuge left for them in a city that “has enough lovers to fill up the world but is blue enough to drown five continents.” Finding ways to survive in this city has become an ordeal for the Syrians who have stayed.

During the international conference “THE FOREST FACTOR: More nature to fight climate change,” held in Rome on June 6-7, Fiore Longo spoke about green colonialism and its consequences on women’s lives.

In the Atlas Mountains, women weavers work in the shadows in difficult conditions, for the profit of traders who get rich off their labor.