Women's rights in independent Tunisia

<p>It's 70 years since Tunisian gained independence from France.</p><p>In August 1956, it brought in a new equality law that revolutionised women's lives.</p><p>Under the socialist President Habib Bourguiba, the North African country became the first in the Muslim world to legalise civil divorce and abortion and to ban polygamy.</p><p>Bourguiba also gave women the vote and widened access to education.</p><p>Nidale Abou Mrad spoke to Saida El Gueyed, a founding member of the Tunisian Women's Union, in 2019.</p><p>Eye-witness accounts brought to life by …