1. What the Women Say: The Arab Spring & Implications for Women
ICAN’s First MENA Region Issue Brief
In the first of ICAN’s What the Women Say, MENA Region Briefs, crosscutting regional trends that threaten basic norms of democracy, equality and affect women’s abilities to participate in and influence critical decision-making processes–nationally and internationally—that will determine the course of these countries’ futures and the lives of women have been highlighted. Beyond identifying key regional challenges and issues impacting women, the brief provides recommendations to national and international policymakers and the media on the importance of and the strategies for ensuring the participation of women in the formation of just, open, equal and democratic societies.
This regional issue brief results from in country visits and consultations with women’s rights and human rights activists, lawyers, scholars, journalists and policymakers in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco as well as broad consultations with international experts and local activists from the region, including Libya and Afghanistan.
