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Tunisia: selective feminism and the marginalization of women’s struggles

It's time to challenge the state's continued tradition of instrumentalizing women’s rights for its own political purposes. عربي

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Fauque Nicolas/ABACA/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.

Tunisian women shout slogans and hold posters reading, "don't touch my rights" and "woman is the future of man" during a protest calling for the respect of women's rights and other fundamental rights in Tunis, Tunisia, August 13, 2012. Fauque Nicolas/ABACA/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.

#NoWomanNoFly was the hashtag that concluded 2017 in Tunisia; a year that witnessed historical women’s rights reforms.  

The Tunisian Parliament approved a landmark law on violence against women which, unprecedently, included progressive provisions on domestic violence and marital rape.
 
The president ordered the abolishment of a decades-long ban on Tunisian women marrying non-Muslim men, and called for equal inheritance laws.