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News 25 Jun 2013 3 min read

Women's rights after the Arab revolutions

- Organised from 21 to 23 June in Fez, the sixth International Forum "Mediterranean Women" was held around the theme: "Women's rights after the Arab revolutions".
- The debates highlighted the new challenges facing intellectuals and activists to promote the situation of women in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
Women's rights after the Arab revolutions
In parallel with the major changes that the Arab world is experiencing today, two years after the outbreak of the "Arab Spring", women's rights are in clear decline. In this context, the ISIS Centre for Women and Development and the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation organised, from 21 to 23 June in Fez, the sixth edition of the International Forum "Mediterranean Women", around the theme: "Women's rights after the Arab revolutions". "We wanted to dedicate the forum this year to this issue which is more relevant than ever, in order to draw attention to the situation of women after the Arab revolutions and the struggles they are waging to impose themselves in their societies. Indeed, women who played an important role in the Arab Spring, manifesting their indignation and anger against all forms of injustice and tyranny, find themselves today victims of physical and psychological violence,…

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