Ten years have passed since the Egyptian Revolution. The opening up of the public sphere did not mean that everyone was welcome in it. Egyptian women were struggling to exact a space for themselves and fought bold battles so their voices could be heard, paying a heavy price for that.
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 matter.
In an unusual gesture, taxi drivers in the West Bank, Palestine, put up posters and slogans for a couple of days calling for an end to violence against women, especially domestic violence, and asking the government to quickly approve the ‘Family Violence Protection Law.’
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