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Women fighting for equality in divorce

Lawyer 陌pek Bozkurt and human rights activist Nada Nashat help women in Turkey and Egypt who want to leave their partners.

Divorces are often messy. In countries like Turkey and Egypt, they can also put women at risk of losing everything: their financial independence, the right to see their children, and their social status.

陌pek Bozkurt is a lawyer based in Istanbul. She focuses on cases of violence against women and works with a grassroot organisation called We Will Stop Femicide. Her story was featured in the documentary 鈥淒ying to Divorce鈥, which was the UK鈥檚 official entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 2022 Academy Awards.

Nada Nashat is a human rights activist based in Cairo. She is the Advocacy Coordinator at the Center for Egyptian Women's Legal Assistance (CEWLA), an organisation supporting women who want to divorce their husbands. She鈥檚 also campaigning to make divorce legislation fairer.

Produced by Alice Gioia and Lorna Treen

(Image: (L) Nada Nashat, courtesy Nada Nashat. (R) 陌pek Bozkurt, courtesy 陌pek Bozkurt.)

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