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As women across the world were preparing for International Women’s Day 2022, a group of women who participated in last year’s IWD march in Istanbul stood trial in Turkey, accused of insulting the president with their slogans.

Women in Turkey need more shelters so that those with-out financial means may find a way out of the violence they are exposed to. The violations against them by public officials are also increasing, and these are not unrelated to the government’s decision to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention.

Legislators did not remain completely silent in the face of the constant struggle and activism of Algerian women, but the fair and equal legal arsenal today is either battling with regression or fighting for survival. Depriving divorced women who remarry of their right to their children’s custody is but one example of the injustice suffered by Algerian women.

The murder of a 26-year-old young woman by her husband, a National Guard officer, revives the debate on domestic violence in Tunisia. Feminists are calling upon the State to break with its policy that trivialises a crime whose gender-based motives are always concealed.

They call them ‘single moms’ usually because they are unmarried mothers. But they are also the mothers who have separated from their partners and are alone in providing care to their children, whether by choice or force. They are mothers who carry the burden of having to provide for a child and secure a never-ending list of needs.

For the past ten years, the struggle of Tunisian women has been incessantly making small steps towards greater equality. Boosted by the breath of a new Constitution and the expectations of women towards the acquisition of more rights and freedoms, the struggle is far from over.

Perceived as second-class citizens by the Family code, Algerian female activists are however as eligible for arrest as much as men. Meet Aouicha, Samira, Dalila and others in this article.

Who would have thought 19th century Japan could be a source of inspiration on women’s rights for a 21st century country? Well, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan did, despite a conspicuous temporal, geographical and cultural distance.