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	Podcast:		Witness
	Episode:		When Tunisia led on women's rights
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:09:07
	Publish Date:		2019-07-25 03:40:00
	Description:		When Tunisia achieved independence it brought in a new equality law that revolutionised women's lives. In August 1956 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. He 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 who was asked by President Bourguiba to help both men and women understand how the new law would change their lives. Photo: Courtesy of Saida El Gueyed
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