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Since 2008, “Lucha y Siesta” has been a unique model of active citizenship and solidarity for the capital city. A space that is more than a mere building, or group that resists, but rather an irreversible process born from below. After years of precariousness, negotiations and threats, the Lazio region has finally won the battle for the property.

Violence against women in Palestine takes social and structural dimensions that are evident in the protection afforded by the Palestinian Authority to the tribal culture, to the extent that it has established the so-called ‘General Directorate of Tribal Affairs and Conciliation’, while overlooking for years the duty to provide full protection to women, including by offering adequate and safe shelters.

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.

In Spain, Law 12/2009* regulating asylum and subsidiary protection explicitly includes in the definition of a refugee, “persecution for reasons of gender or sexual orientation.” Rescate, an association supporting asylum seekers who have fled their countries for reasons related to gender, cared for them and hundreds of others who have endured gender-based violence, including sex trafficking.

Instead of receiving support, feminist groups must struggle against institutions to survive, as was the case of the “Casa Internazionale delle donne” and “Lucha y Siesta”. Threatened with eviction by the Municipality, these two symbolic places of the feminist movement celebrate together the end of a nightmare.

Hijabistas, a neologism for fashionistas who wear the hijab, now dictate fashion trends. In Algeria, the many veiled bloggers are followed by thousands of subscribers. Sharing beauty tutorials and tips to seduce, they also give the hijab all kinds of styles, from the most classic to the sexiest…

Although abortion in Spain is allowed by law, it is a matter that is not yet read in terms of women’s rights and leaves huge gaps when it comes to exercising it. This gap is not one that the far-right is willing to pass up to impose its own agenda.

As the world celebrates International Safe Abortion Day on 28 September, we are publishing a comprehensive series of articles on women’s sexual and reproductive rights. For the drafting of this content, Medfeminiswiya journalists reported from Algeria, Egypt, Italy, Palestine, Turkey, Lebanon, Morocco, Spain and Malta, countries where these fundamental rights are far from being achieved or remain very fragile.

Having a C-Section without being informed about the consequences and risks in a country where women have an average of 3 children is, to say the least, problematic. Caesarean sections carried out for the comfort of the practitioner and not the mothers are akin to gynecological violence. Here’s how.