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Women in Tunisia.

That's a whole different ball game....it highlights the difference between need and greed. A love rat is greedy, he/she has everything they need but wants more.
I met one of them! Today, I was cleaning out pictures. OMG....there were hundreds of old f**kface! I thought I’d 🤮 puke......as I binged him! Good riddance! 🎉🎊🥳👍
 

Decade after revolution, Tunisia’s women face uphill battle

After securing historic gains, the political engagement and representation of Tunisian women is now waning alarmingly.

Many Tunisian women dreamed of greater gender equality after autocratic leader Ben Ali was toppled by protests in January 2011 [Constantin Gouvy/Al Jazeera]

Many Tunisian women dreamed of greater gender equality after autocratic leader Ben Ali was toppled by protests in January 2011 [Constantin Gouvy/Al Jazeera]
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Constantin Gouvy and
constantine
17 Jan 2021
Tunis, Tunisia – Ten years ago, Tunisian women poured onto the streets to help overthrow autocratic leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali after nearly 20 years in power, and, for some, to denounce the patriarchal nature of Tunisia’s political sphere.
“During the 2011 uprising, we dreamt big,” longtime women’s rights activist Neila Zoghlami recalled with nostalgia.
“We dreamt of equal representation. We dreamt we would become full citizens, not just burdened with men’s duties, but also endowed with their rights … we dreamt we would finally be able to carve out a genuine space for women in politics.”
Now secretary-general of the feminist Tunisian Association of Democratic Women, Zoghlami says, despite big strides in the right direction, her dream remains unfulfilled, as women’s political engagement and representation have started to erode.
On the eve of Tunisia’s revolution, despite several decades of “state feminism” initiated by former President Habib Bourguiba upon independence from France in 1956 and perpetuated by Ben Ali’s repressive rule, politics unmistakably remained a man’s world.
On the face of it, Tunisia’s parliament comprised a large number of women. After the introduction of gender quotas on electoral lists, women secured 28 percent of the seats in the 2009 legislative election – a larger share than in the United States House of Representatives in 2021.
But under the guise of increasing representation, Ben Ali had instrumentalised women for political gains, said 34-year-old Hela Omrane, a former member of parliament elected in 2014.
“It was only a PR exercise for the regime,” she told Al Jazeera.
For Omrane, the revolution was the opportunity for women to genuinely become involved in politics, not just to be used as “ornaments”.

Mixed fortunes

To be sure, 10 years on, women have some successes to celebrate.


“After the uprising, a tremendous number of women who had never been engaged politically, never even been on social media because they were afraid of Ben Ali’s regime, found themselves mobilising politically, involving themselves in civil society, and encouraging others to vote in a spontaneous movement throughout the country,” recalled Bochra Belhaj Hmida, a lawyer, politician, and leading Tunisian feminist who spearheaded legislation for women’s rights in parliament between 2014 and 2019.
Since then, political mobilisation has landed women several historic victories.
As voters, women demonstrated their political influence most clearly in the 2014 presidential election, when one million women voted for Beji Caid Essebsi, from the newly formed secular and centrist party Nidaa Tounes, helping him to victory.
In 2012, women parliamentarians defeated an attempt by members of Islamist party Ennahdha to enshrine women’s “complementarity” to men, instead of “equality”, in the country’s new constitution.
In 2017, landmark legislation on violence against women included provisions against the prevention of women entering politics.
Women secured an unprecedented 47 percent of the seats in local elections in 2018.
Yet, in recent years, women’s political involvement and representation have been on the wane in Tunisia.
The trend was especially clear in the 2019 legislative elections, in which only 36 percent of registered Tunisian women voted – 10 percent fewer than men – and only 22 percent of the seats were won by women, some 10 percent fewer than in 2014.
“From 2011 up until 2014, even in rural areas, women entertained an unprecedented interest for politics, closely following debates on the TV,” Dorra Mahfoudh, a sociologist and longtime feminist activist who was part of the transitional authority after the uprising, told Al Jazeera.
“But as the years went by, and as the promises of the revolution went unfulfilled, their political engagement eroded.”

Shunning elections​

For Belhaj Hmida, many older women felt betrayed when the government elected in 2014 failed to comprehensively defeat Ennahdha.
Many younger women, she added, do not see themselves as being represented by any of the parties in parliament today.
“No one really speaks to them, in their language, about the issues they care about – so they shun the elections,” she said.
Sonia Ben Miled, a 28-year-old activist and head of communications for the feminist NGO Aswat Nissa, said in rural areas this disengagement is compounded by recurring obstacles, such as women struggling to access transport and often lacking the required identification papers to vote.
The 2019 election also saw a significant drop in the representation of women in parliament; with only 5 percent of women on the electoral lists, they lost some 30 seats.
“There might have been more women in parliament in 2009, but at least now these women are democratically elected, they are legitimate,” Mahfoudh said.
Beyond the reluctance of political parties to include women on their electoral lists, Ben Miled said the disappointing figures were also in part the result of the enduring patriarchal and misogynistic nature of Tunisia’s political sphere.
“There is still a glass ceiling for Tunisian women in politics today. It’s prompting some to call it quits,” lamented Ben Miled.
“One just has to look at the composition of the party’s political offices, the parliament’s commissions, or even the government to see that women are heavily underrepresented in decision-making positions.”
The allocation of ministries also adheres to outdated gender stereotypes, she added.
“You’ll never see a woman heading the interior or the defence ministries – these are still the preserve of men. Women virtually only ever end up with the ministry for women’s affairs.”

Verbal abuse​

Verbal violence has also increasingly become a dissuading factor for women who consider entering politics.
“In 2014, there was a genuine drive for inclusivity – we were trying to set up a democracy,” Zoghlami said.
“But today, women’s participation in politics is met with increasingly violent rhetoric.”
Many have denounced the verbal abuse they have received on social media, often targeted at their personal lives and families.
“At first, it wasn’t easy for me to accept the violent backlash each of my media appearances would draw simply because I am a woman working in politics. But I think it was even harder for my family,” Omrane said.
According to Belhaj Hmida, as a result of these trends, “there is no feminism in parliament today, no progressive voices”.
Meanwhile, she said the links between parliament and women’s rights civil society organisations have started eroding, and all that is left in parliament are “retrograde views” on the role of women in politics.
Notably, last December, parliamentarian Mohamed Afess, from the conservative coalition al-Karama, lambasted women’s rights in parliament.
In an infamous speech that has drawn the ire of civil society, he claimed the progress achieved in the field of women’s rights has tainted women’s honour, and that what people call women’s freedom is in fact libertinism and a lack of virtue.
After Afess’s speech, Zoghlami confessed she lost all confidence in parliamentarians’ ability to safeguard the rights women have fought for since the revolution.
“With this new parliament, women have gone back to square one”, echoed Omrane, who had joined politics in 2012 in reaction to Ennahda’s push for women’s “complementarity”.

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Protesters chant slogans near a Tunisian National Guard member during a peaceful demonstration in Ettadamen suburb of Tunis, January 15, 2011 [File: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]In stark contrast, Belhaj Hmida said she was happy Afess’s views were aired.

“Look at the uproar it caused – it was encouraging,” she said, referring to the lawsuits several civil society organisations have filed against the parliamentarian.
“Call me a naive optimist, but I think it is a good thing we are having this conversation out loud: muzzling this kind of speech wouldn’t allow us to overcome it as a society.”

‘The fight continues’​

Many said reducing the issue to a dichotomy between feminist progressives and patriarchal Islamists is unhelpful and even misleading.
One of Zoghlami’s main causes for concern today is the continued instrumentalisation of women in politics by parties across the ideological spectrum.
“The situation hasn’t changed much compared to Ben Ali’s regime,” she said.
For Belhaj Hmida, “so-called progressive parties only take a stand for women’s rights when it suits them. They’re instrumentalising women and women’s rights just like everyone else.”
Even before the revolution, progressives and opposition parties always told her: “women’s rights isn’t the priority, it’s not the time for it”, she said.
“Today, when ‘progressive’ political parties want to pick a fight with the Islamists and the conservatives, they suddenly become more feminist than the feminists themselves. But that’s just for the show,” she added.
“The rest of the time, they try and divide us by pushing us into a constant state of competition for a small number of positions, instead of fighting with us for more parity.”
As a result, there is only a little cooperation across party lines among women in parliament.
“Women and their political rights are a pawn on the political chessboard. It’s disheartening”, said Ben Miled.
To upend this logic, in 2012, her NGO Aswat Nissa launched the Women’s Political Academy, which has trained more than 200 sitting or aspiring women politicians and community leaders below 35 on how to integrate gender issues in public policies and work across party lines to advance women’s rights.
Meanwhile, looking back at her dream a decade since the revolution, Zoghlami said, despite the difficulties, she is not ready yet to throw in the towel.
“We are still far from equal representation today, but we have won some battles since the revolution, and the fight for securing women’s place in politics continues,” she said.
“We believe in a better Tunisia, and a better tomorrow.”



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SOURCE : AL JAZEERA


No rights, no equality, no freedoms, no respect....it's high time the world started to ignore the bullshit Tunisia puts on paper to impress the world about how progressive they are, and looked for the truth.....life for a woman is shit!
 

Tunisia-Abir Moussi accuses Mabrouk Korchid of assaulting her View attachment 6227

By Rim Hana
| 12 novembre 2020


The president of the free Destourian party, Abir Moussi, on Wednesday, November 11, accused MP Mabrouk Korchid of attacking her, pushing her by her shoulder and shouting: “I am not an employee of your father!”
“I nearly fell to the ground if it wasn’t for the door that embodied the shock,” she said. It took security intervention to put an ending to the aggression. ”
According to PDL deputies, MP Samia Abbou would have seen this aggression which took place at the parliament.


Tunisia-Video:Makhlouf continues his crusade against women​

By Rim Hana
| 29 janvier 2021

Al Karama bloc leader Saifeddine Makhlouf continues with his episodes and this time by attacking a delegation of women who came to the parliament to PDL MP leader Abir Moussi, after his assault on the deputy in question.

Some women in the delegation provoked Makhlouf, who did not differ from his nature and responded violently, attacking them, calling them a French diaspora in Tunisia.



Quote "Some women in the delegation provoked Makhlouf" How dare they :ROFLMAO:
 

Tunisia-Olfa Youssef: A takfirist attempted to enter my home​

By Rim Hana
| 30 janvier 2021

Writer Olfa Youssef, declared on her official page this Friday, 2021, that takfirist attempted to enter her home

“To reassure all my friends… Yes, there is a takrifist who attempted to get to my home yesterday… The security guards detained him. I didn’t want to bring up the subject… but the news leaked… I’m fine, ”she revealed.


Takrifist = hardline extremist
 

Tunisia-Abir Moussi files a complaint against Seifeddine Makhlouf (y)

By Rim Hana
| 1 février 2021

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PDL leader Abir Moussi formally filed a criminal complaint with the public prosecutor of the Tunis Court of First Instance against Al-Karama Coalition head Seifeddine Makhlouf.
She called on the judiciary to implement the law, face the “aggressor” and bring justice to the victim.
In a statement published on Monday, February 1 by the PDL, Moussi likewise called for the protection of women active in the political field against violence and discrimination.

 

Tunisia-Abir Moussi files a complaint against Seifeddine Makhlouf (y)

By Rim Hana
| 1 février 2021

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PDL leader Abir Moussi formally filed a criminal complaint with the public prosecutor of the Tunis Court of First Instance against Al-Karama Coalition head Seifeddine Makhlouf.
She called on the judiciary to implement the law, face the “aggressor” and bring justice to the victim.
In a statement published on Monday, February 1 by the PDL, Moussi likewise called for the protection of women active in the political field against violence and discrimination.

Good for her! It's so nice to see her standing up and saying no to the mistreatment of women ❤
 

Tunisia-PDL protests using loudspeakers 🤣 chearledergif.par37.gif

By Rim Hana
| 2 février 2021

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Recently attacked by Seifeddine Makhlouf, PDL leader Abir Moussi continued her demonstration movements.

This Tuesday, February 2, 2021, the plenary session dedicated to the examination of the bill approving the framework deal of credit line concluded between Tunisia and the French cooperation agency in the presence of the Minister of Finance was interrupted by the PDL sit-in.

To make themselves heard Abir Moussi, and her party deputies decided to use megaphones to oppose forms of violence against Tunisian women.

Indeed, the PDL bloc protested in parallel with the reading of the report. She complained in particular before the finance minister against the assault on women at the parliament and against the government’s indifference to debt policies.

 
She complained in particular before the finance minister against the assault on women at the parliament and against the government’s indifference to debt policies.

Tunisia-Rached Ghannouchi sends bailiff to the parliament​

By Rim Hana
| 2 février 2021


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House speaker Rached Ghannouchi requested a bailiff to make a statement on “the interruption of the plenary session by MP Abir Moussi”, Shems FM reported.

It is remarked that the PDL leader and members of her parliamentary bloc took a megaphone to condemn the fact that the parliament approved three new loan deals between the Tunisian government and foreign countries.


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Tunisia-[Video] Abir Moussi: A bill to combat discrimination against women​

By Rim Hana
| 5 février 2021

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Speaking at a press conference,PDL leader Abir Moussi affirmed that her party has introduced a law to stop violence against women.
Concerning political violence against women, the MP stated that the concept of political violence was not well outlined in the old text and that the penalties are relatively derisory.

She recommended that political and moral violence be penalised with a fine of 5,000 dinars instead of 1,000 with 6 months in jail in the event of a repeat offence, adding that the provocation of public opinion to abandon the gains of women will also be condemnable.

in this sense, legal persons need to be also sanctioned in the event of discrimination against women by the halt of their activities and even the dissolution in the event of recidivism, as well as the media that justify violence against women.

The politician likewise condemned the exploitation of the image of women in politics, adding that the PDL project intends to combat Islamic and extremist beliefs that attempt to normalize discrimination against women.

 

Tunisia-[Video] Abir Moussi: A bill to combat discrimination against women​

By Rim Hana
| 5 février 2021

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Speaking at a press conference,PDL leader Abir Moussi affirmed that her party has introduced a law to stop violence against women.
Concerning political violence against women, the MP stated that the concept of political violence was not well outlined in the old text and that the penalties are relatively derisory.

She recommended that political and moral violence be penalised with a fine of 5,000 dinars instead of 1,000 with 6 months in jail in the event of a repeat offence, adding that the provocation of public opinion to abandon the gains of women will also be condemnable.

in this sense, legal persons need to be also sanctioned in the event of discrimination against women by the halt of their activities and even the dissolution in the event of recidivism, as well as the media that justify violence against women.

The politician likewise condemned the exploitation of the image of women in politics, adding that the PDL project intends to combat Islamic and extremist beliefs that attempt to normalize discrimination against women.



They have a long way to go.

Bra Burning in the 1960's

 

Tunisia-[Video] Abir Moussi: A bill to combat discrimination against women​

By Rim Hana
| 5 février 2021

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Speaking at a press conference,PDL leader Abir Moussi affirmed that her party has introduced a law to stop violence against women.
Concerning political violence against women, the MP stated that the concept of political violence was not well outlined in the old text and that the penalties are relatively derisory.

She recommended that political and moral violence be penalised with a fine of 5,000 dinars instead of 1,000 with 6 months in jail in the event of a repeat offence, adding that the provocation of public opinion to abandon the gains of women will also be condemnable.

in this sense, legal persons need to be also sanctioned in the event of discrimination against women by the halt of their activities and even the dissolution in the event of recidivism, as well as the media that justify violence against women.

The politician likewise condemned the exploitation of the image of women in politics, adding that the PDL project intends to combat Islamic and extremist beliefs that attempt to normalize discrimination against women.

If Tunisia only had more women in politics, it would be a much better country!
The majority of men in power seem to still be so stone age in their beliefs and so misogynistic, that it's holding the country back.

I really like this Abir Moussi....her ideas are good and fair.....I just hope she is able to put her ideas into practice and they don't just become another paper law that nobody adheres to.

That Al Karama party are vile! They don't deserve a voice 👍
 

Tunisia-Abir Moussi: From now on, a bailiff will attend all meetings (y)

By Rim Hana
| 11 février 2021

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Following the complaint lodged against her by Al Karama head Seif Eddine Makhlouf, PDL Abir Moussi leader announced that from now on a bailiff will be present at the meetings of the parliament bureau.

The MP revealed that the bailiff is bound by professional secrecy, and accordingly his presence will not pose any issue.

“If the house speaker does not accept this resolution, no one will be able to stop me from filming everything that is occurring in the room live, in order to be able to defend me against false accusations”, she said.

 

Tunisia-Abir Moussi: From now on, a bailiff will attend all meetings (y)

By Rim Hana
| 11 février 2021

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Following the complaint lodged against her by Al Karama head Seif Eddine Makhlouf, PDL Abir Moussi leader announced that from now on a bailiff will be present at the meetings of the parliament bureau.

The MP revealed that the bailiff is bound by professional secrecy, and accordingly his presence will not pose any issue.

“If the house speaker does not accept this resolution, no one will be able to stop me from filming everything that is occurring in the room live, in order to be able to defend me against false accusations”, she said.

She ain't taking no shit 😂
 

Tunisia-Rania Amdouni sentenced to 6 months in jail​

By Rim Hana
| 4 mars 2021

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Rania Amdouni was handed down a six-month prison sentence with immediate execution.
She had been accused of undermining public morals .


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Tunisia-Rania Amdouni sentenced to 6 months in jail​

By Rim Hana
| 4 mars 2021

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Rania Amdouni was handed down a six-month prison sentence with immediate execution.
She had been accused of undermining public morals .


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I feel really sorry for her. Tunisia does not see women as worthy or equal with regards to anything. Her defending LGBT rights probably will never happen in that backwoods country, yet rats carry on in the woods and with any tourist....male or female, and nothing ever happens to them! Disgusting!
 

Tunisia-Minister for Women: Violence against women on the rise during Coronavirus pandemic​

By Rim Hana
| 5 mars 2021

The Minister of Women, Families and the Elderly, Imen Zahouani Houimel announced today that acts of violence have especially increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to him, the ministry gets 3,500 phone calls each year to record acts of violence. This number reached 13,500 during the first phase of lockdown.

For his part, the head of the Ministry of the Interior, Raoudha Bayoudh announced that the ministry faces challenges concerning the implementation of the organic law relating to the elimination of violence

 

Tunisia-Abir Moussi: From now on, a bailiff will attend all meetings (y)

By Rim Hana
| 11 février 2021

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Following the complaint lodged against her by Al Karama head Seif Eddine Makhlouf, PDL Abir Moussi leader announced that from now on a bailiff will be present at the meetings of the parliament bureau.

The MP revealed that the bailiff is bound by professional secrecy, and accordingly his presence will not pose any issue.

“If the house speaker does not accept this resolution, no one will be able to stop me from filming everything that is occurring in the room live, in order to be able to defend me against false accusations”, she said.


Tunisia-PDL: “Ghannouchi hid correspondence sent by the Inter-Parliamentary Union”​

By Rim Hana
| 5 mars 2021

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The PDL declared that the Human Rights Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union has directed a formal correspondence to the Tunisian Parliament, notifying it of the acceptance of the complaint lodged by MP Abir Moussi.

According to the PDL bloc, the interparliamentary union requested the parliament presidency for an explanation on the measures taken to guard Moussi’s rights and preserve her dignity as a woman politician at the head of an opposition party.

In the same context, it condemned the concealment of correspondence by house speaker Rached Ghannouchi “who did not present it to the council office” and “who proceeds to protect the attackers and to operate to change the facts. and make the victim an accused ”.

 

Tunisia-Minister of Social Affairs congratulates Tunisian woman​

By Rim Hana
| 8 mars 2021

The Ministry of Social Affairs issued a congratulatory statement on March 8, 2021, on the occasion of the celebration of International Women’s Rights Day.

On this occasion, The Minister, Mohamed Trabelsi, addressed his congratulations to all Tunisian women inside and outside the nation, as well as those serving in the ministry and within its several services. The ministry further commended the spirit of sacrifice and struggle of women at all levels and in several fields of activity by vowing to support the efforts of Tunisian women.

The Ministry of Social Affairs has reiterated its dedication to helping underprivileged and poor social classes by helping all strategies and programs promoting social inclusion and the economic independence of women.

The department has pledged to improve the care and support mechanisms for women with disabilities or victims of poverty. The objective is to defend them against violence, violent extremism, human trafficking and to offer guarantees to organize domestic work as well as respectable working circumstances in the agricultural field in particular.

 
The department has pledged to improve the care and support mechanisms for women with disabilities or victims of poverty. The objective is to defend Themis against violence, violent extremism, human trafficking and to offer guarantees to organize domestic work as well as respectable working circumstances in the agricultural field in particular.
I will believe it when I see it! 🤞🤞🤞
 
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