Day: August 20, 2017

August 2017 marks a new journey towards women empowerment in Africa. From The Women Advancing Africa Forum in Tanzania, to the Women Empowerment Collaboration in South Africa, the continent shows strong signs of social reconstruction. Every year, people from different African nations gather on May 25th to celebrate Africa Day (formerly known as African Liberation Day), to commemorate the organisation of African Unity in 1963 (which changed to the African Union in 2002). Now the continent is working towards another liberation, the liberation from gender segregation. Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania,…

Tunisia’s consideration of a bill to grant equal property inheritance rights to women and men has divided the country over a larger question: whether it should be a secular state or one where Islam is the basis for its code of laws. The bill was proposed by Tunisia’s first democratically-elected president, Beji Caid Essebsi, a secular leader who ran on a platform of economic and social liberalization. Among the changes to inheritance that the bill would bring if it comes into law is permitting marriages between Muslim women and non-Muslim men in Tunisia. Essebsi, who announced the…