By RFIPalled on 13-08-2019Modified on 13-08-2019 at 02:36

On the occasion of the thirty years of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (AFTD), several feminist activists have been able to give their vision of priorities in Tunisia for the struggle for women's rights.

Despite significant achievements for women's rights in Tunisia such as the law on the elimination of violence against women, in 2017, or the abolition of circular 73 which prohibited a Tunisian to to marry a non-Muslim, fighting remains to be fought.

In Tunis, some feminist struggles have their teeth hard, even after years of struggle. This is the case of the battle against street harassment that persists. Meryem Sellami, socio-anthropologist coordinated a national survey on the subject. Nearly half of Tunisian women are subject to violence in the public space.

" The procedure is still difficult and especially the proof. We did set up a toll-free number that receives all kinds of calls and complaints. There are also campaigns with, for example, slogans written on buses " cheraa mouch lik wahdek", that is to say "the street is not only for you, " she said.

If awareness is there for this battle, some gains for women's rights are they, in sharp decline, according to Najma Kousri Labidi who works on sexual and reproductive rights.

" The numbers show it. Women no longer have access to contraception because it is no longer a priority of the state today and that is unfortunate, "she laments.

An absent state to implement policies in favor of women but which nevertheless passes progressive laws. For Henda Chennaoui, an activist, we must fight, sometimes at a distance from power, through a new generation of feminists.

" Feminists who are in the counter-power, in" we want everything and immediately "and we are indebted to nothing, " she advocates.

While August 13 celebrates women in Tunisia, the feminist movement is renewing itself and faces many challenges, including the fight for equality in inheritance. The bill, tabled in Parliament in January, has not been debated.

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