100 Women 2016 : Female Arab cartoonists challenge authority - BBC News
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In some Arab countries women still have to ask permission from a male relative to get a passport, marry or leave the country. Although the practice of “male guardianship” is not always enshrined in law, it persists in everyday life within many families.
As part of the 100 Women season, the BBC asked three female cartoonists from North Africa to take up their pens and illustrate how the custom continues to affect women’s lives in their countries.
#Egypte #DOAA_EL_ADL #young_brides
The phrase ’young brides’ means girls who have just reached the legal age for marriage in Egypt - which is 18 - but whose families marry them off to much older foreign men.
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If a foreign man wants to marry a girl who is more than 25 years younger than him, then he is obliged to pay her family the equivalent of just over US$6,000 (£4,800).
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“The men in these societies are basically selling these girls off,” says el-Adl. “And the state has failed to stop this happening.”
#Tunisie #Nadia_Khiari #Willis_from_Tunis #viol
Her chosen theme for this cartoon - which also features Willis - is the continuing pressure on rape victims to marry their attackers in order to avoid bringing shame on their families.
She was inspired to draw the cartoon in response to controversial comments by a male Tunisian TV talk show host who was suspended from his job in October, after suggesting that a young girl who had been subject to years of sexual abuse by three male relatives should marry one of them when she became pregnant.
#Maroc #RIHAM_ELHOUR #liberté_de_circulation
Riham Elhour was the first ever female cartoonist to be published in the Moroccan press.
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The theme she has chosen for her cartoon is foreign travel, and the numbers of Moroccan men who are using the law to stop their wives travelling abroad.
Although many of Morocco’s male guardianship laws were overturned in reforms in 2004 and 2014, women still legally need their husband’s formal permission to leave the country if they want to take their children with them.
#femmes #monde_arabe #caricatures #féminisme #luttes #domination_masculine #droits_des_femmes #cartoonists