07 / 12 / 2011
Tunisia to upgrade key women's rights statute
"The Islamist party that won Tunisia's first post-revolution election said it would elevate a decades-old gender equality statute to a basic law. "We want the personal status code to become a basic law so that no one can tamper with it by a simple majority vote," Nourredine Bhiri, spokesman of the Ennahda party, told parliamentarians". Read more
By IOL News, 7 December 2011