“Change did happen. Thousands…of women who never felt the need to get involved in political and social activism have mobilised.”
Bochra Belhaj Hmida, a lawyer and member of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women, reflects on how entrenched patriarchy is threatensing women’s emancipation and warns that the “coalition for the protection of the revolution”, a Tunisian pro-Islamist militia, is halting the transitional process.
