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Aug 13 2024
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Women’s Day Tunisia

National Women’s Day Tunisia is celebrated every year on August 13th. It commemorates the day of adoption of the Code of Personal Status in Tunisia in 1956, the year of independence in Tunisia. The code enacted laws for the family that contain fundamental changes, the most important of which is the prohibition of polygamy, the withdrawal of guardianship from men, and the making of divorce by the court instead of men. Tunisian women celebrate their rights and rally for gender equality on this day. In 2017, President Beji Caid Essebsi announced on National Women’s Day that he intended to remove gender bias from Tunisian inheritance law, sparking much controversy both from leftist groups who saw it as a political move and conservative groups that saw it as contrary to Sharia law.