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The women's uprising in Yemen

Luiza Toscane — 2025-06-08T07:52:12Z

Yemeni women have taken to the streets in their thousands in recent weeks.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Women, Yemen

In Figuig, women fight for a common good -water

Luiza Toscane — 2024-03-12T22:00:33Z

“The involvement of women in the movement, who held a resounding demonstration on 8 March, has had the effect of shaking up the political class.“

- IV590 - March 2024 / Women, Morocco

The noose tightens in Sudan

Luiza Toscane — 2023-11-05T11:54:20Z

“Fleeing to neighbouring countries is not a solution: nearly half a million people live in Chad's camps with difficulties in accessing water, food and medical care.”

- IV586 - November 2023 / Sudan

“Islamic State”, the lethal state

Luiza Toscane — 2015-01-17T22:03:56Z

“Islamic State"” (Daesh) traces its origins to the formation of an Iraqi kernel of Al Qaeda following the US invasion. The self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi joined the latter, when it was led by the Jordanian al-Zarkawi. In 2006, the consultative council of the Mujahedeen in Iraq proclaimed “the Islamic State in Iraq”. It was by involving themselves in the Syrian revolution, fighting the Free Syrian Army (FSA) more than the Assad regime, particularly from 2013, that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant” (Daesh) was able to expand, competing with Al Qaeda and its Syrian franchise, the al-Nusra Front (or Jabhat al-Nusra).

- IV480 - January 2015 / Syria, Iraq

Aspects of the involvement of women in the Arab revolutions

Luiza Toscane — 2014-03-24T15:35:58Z

Of course women have been part of the revolutionary processes in the region. They have been strikers (in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain); they have participated in general assemblies (in Oman); everywhere, they have demonstrated, marched, occupied squares and camps (in Bahrain, Oman and Yemen). Whatever the kind of demonstration, with mixed (as in Morocco) or separated (as in Libya and Oman) contingents, women have taken to the streets and continue to do so every day. And in some countries, their specific mobilizations have played a remarkable role (students in Saudi Arabia and Sudan). Only the processes of militarization of revolutions (in Libya and Syria) have kept them in the background. And even then, women soldiers in Gaddafi's army were part of the armed insurrection when the regular army changed sides.

- IV470 - March 2014 / Women, Arab Revolutions