.... With three Arab Spring countries slated to revamp their constitutions wholesale, the future of women in North Africa and the Middle East is teetering on the precipice — at a crossroads like no other time since the uprisings erupted in 2010.
“Women still have to fight for their rights because for them, the revolution is not over yet,” said Heide Gottner, who works with Amica, a Germany-based women’s organization with field workers in Libya and the West Bank.
“Women fought for and demanded their rights. Now we see that they’re sort of the losers of the revolution.”
Nowhere is that more true than in Egypt, at least so far. [National Post] Read more
