Sexist practices mar the campaign for the legislative elections held in June 2021
1 May 2021
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Rights at stake and state’s obligations
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Rights at stake and state’s obligations
May-June 2021: On the posters of electoral lists of certain regions, political parties blurred the faces of female candidates or replaced them with silhouettes. The faces of men, on the other hand, were perfectly visible.
25 May 2021: The Head of “Al-Rashid Governance Front Party,” Issa Belhadi, objectified women candidates in a statement during the election campaign by stating that among the “beauties” on the electoral lists, “we have chosen the best for you: we gave you the selected strawberries, not those going to South Africa”
See VOA, June 2021, TV5 Monde, June 2021 and Algerian Feminism Times, May 2021.