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Podcast: Witness History
Episode: Women's rights in independent Tunisia
Description: It's 70 years since Tunisian gained independence from France.In August 1956, it brought in a new equality law that revolutionised women's lives.Under the socialist President Habib Bourguiba, the North African country became the first in the Muslim world to legalise civil divorce and abortion and to ban polygamy.Bourguiba also gave women the vote and widened access to education.Nidale Abou Mrad spoke to Saida El Gueyed, a founding member of the Tunisian Women's Union, in 2019.Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated...