“There are many women fighting for social justice and for them this is fighting to be able to survive.”
Heba Morayef, director for Human Rights Watch in Egypt, reflects on how the political, social and legal realities have backtracked after the initial euphoria of the 2011 revolution.
“There are many women fighting for social justice and for them this is fighting to be able to survive,” she says.
Since popular uprisings swept across swathes of North Africa and the Middle East, women and their rights have become a hotly debated topic well beyond the region’s borders.
Much ink has been spilt on whether women have benefited from the uprisings. But what do women on the ground think?
“Women of the Revolution” is a Thomson Reuters Foundation project that seeks to hand women the microphone so they can speak for themselves.
