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Despite 3 Women Candidates, French Prez Election Largely Ignores Women’s Issues

April 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Eva Joly

Women account for 53 percent of French voters but there’s little to suggest they will pack their punch behind any single candidate in the first election since the sex-harassment scandal that dashed the presidential hopes of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan. On April 22, French voters will choose among 10 presidential candidates, three of whom [...]

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Will Tunisian Islamists Strip Women of Their Rights?

November 17, 2011 by 1 Comment
800px-Souad_Abderrahim

I have personal reasons for caring about what happens next in Tunisia. I was born in 1985 in France to Tunisian parents. That meant I grew up in an adopted country where women’s legal rights were even more firmly established than in my parent’s homeland. I didn’t face restrictions, so I gave women’s rights very [...]

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