Women's Major Battles: And Still They Fight
Nahla Chahal 2022-08-17
By common sense, many of these practices, along with the legislations and decisions around them, seem completely idiotic and unjustifiable....
Facing Up to “Legal Slavery”: A Timeline of Yemeni Women’s Fight against Child Marriage
Rim Mugahed 2022-08-16
Today, more than 66% of girls in Yemen marry before they turn eighteen, as opposed to 50 % of them...
Behind Patriarchal Prisons: Struggles against Sexual Harassment
Rabab Azzam 2022-08-10
Sexual harassment has become a societal and political means of pressure and repression. It was only after female political activists...
In Iraq, Violence against Women Comes in Many Shapes and Forms
Dima Yassine 2022-08-04
“The girl is a disgrace,” the man yelled out as he murdered his ten-year-old daughter, Zainab. The victim did not...
Criminalizing Female Genital Mutilation in Sudan: An Ongoing Battle
Shamael Elnoor 2022-08-02
In July 2020, the transitional government in Sudan criminalized female circumcision. And so, the battle against this practice may have...
The Question of Child Custody in Lebanon: Patriarchy Consolidates the “Crimes” of Sectarian Laws
Joudi Al-Asmar 2022-07-31
When it comes to personal and social status in Lebanon, child custody is one of the most unjust issues. It...
Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt: Removing the Custom of Removal
Mona Sleem 2022-07-25
After a long and overlapping struggle taken up by civil society organizations and official institutions, everyone, whether supporting the practice...
Sulaliyyate Women in Morocco: This Land Is Ours
Aicha Belhaj 2022-07-16
The struggle of the Sulaliyyate, ethnic tribal women in Morocco, began in 2007 with women belonging to tribes that deprived...
A Woman Mayor in Upper Egypt and Christian Egyptian Women Fighting for Their Right to Divorce
Rabab Azzam 2022-07-12
How can the twofold closed off communities, for many a reason, liberate themselves from the bonds that shackle their lives,...