%0 Journal Article %A Mary Kimani %T Women in North Africa secure more rights %D 2008 %J Africa Renewal, %V 22 %N 2 %P 8-10 %@ 25179829 %R https://doi.org/10.18356/e33dca25-en %I , %X Hayet Laouni is a member of Tunisia’s senate and an owner of her own maritime business. She credits her success to the liberal approach to women’s rights that the government has shown since independence, and to its investment in education. “I am very grateful to my country,” she says. “I was born and grew up in a part of the world where life is supposed to be hard for most people, but harder for women. In fact, I come from two parts of the world, Africa and the Arab Muslim world.” %U https://www.un-ilibrary.org/content/journals/25179829/22/2/4