Around the world, political and legal discourses supporting abortion rights have emphasised
the impact that denying access to abortion has on women's physical health. There are …

This study explores the intersectional effects of criminalization on women's access to safe
abortion in Lebanon. Building on 119 original interviews with women who have had an …

The rights of Tunisian women have been safeguarded in the aftermath of Tunisia's popular
uprising, despite initial and widespread fears of the contrary following the democratic victory …

The regimes that came to power (in some cases ephemerally) in the wake of the so-called
'Arab spring'claimed democratic legitimacy as a primary means of credentialling their …

Background Unsafe abortion continues to be a major hazard for maternal health in Sub-
Saharan Africa, where abortion remains highly controversial and access to safe abortion …

While Tunisians of all ages, class backgrounds, and religious persuasions united in
opposition against Ben Ali's sclerotic regime, their unity quickly collapsed when he fled on …

This article is based on the first collection of testimonies of female former political prisoners
in Tunisia. Relying on purposive rather than random sampling, the interviews were aimed at …

The diversity found across the Muslim world is apparent in different countries' abortion laws
and practices. Tunisia, for example, reformed its abortion law before France and the USA; …

Tunisia's 2011 Revolution remade the country and triggered the most far-reaching changes
in Arab imaginations and politics since the end of colonialism. The revolution began on 17 …