On National Women's Day in Tunisia, celebrated last Sunday, President Beji Caid Essebsi announced the review of a law that demands that a man receive twice the share of an inheritance as a woman.

I grew up confident about gender equality in Tunisian society. I only realized it was a fragile equilibrium as an adult, one that I would later live to see crashing in the span of months. I am a ...

In August 1956, it brought in a new equality law that revolutionised women's lives. Under the socialist President Habib ...

From movies and jewellery to the cartoon Willis from Tunis, Tunisia’s women are using modern IP tools to protect ancient skills and challenge old inequalities, says Vera Albino of Inventa Each year, ...

WASHINGTON -- Things being what they are in Washington, with everyone focused on the deteriorating situations in Iraq and Afghanistan, one is hard put to come up with positive international reporting ...

To mark Tunisia’s National Women’s Day, women wearing the traditional sefsari tunic paraded through the streets of the capital, Tunis, on Wednesday. Organised by the Turathna Association, the 10th ...

Conceived as a model to help society’s most vulnerable groups—including women, Tunisia’s law on social and solidarity economy has, in fact, had the opposite effect. Despite its central role in the ...

Extracting oils from plants at the "Al Baraka" laboratory in Tbainia — FETHI BELAID On a hillside in Tunisia's northwestern highlands, women scour a sun-scorched field for the wild herbs they rely on ...