Mali: Women of Mali organise against new bill

On 2 December 2011, the Malian parliament passed a Family Code, which threatens to set back women’s rights in Mali quite considerably. Women’s organisations like WILDAF Mali, Women in Law and Development in Africa, have been pulling women, and men, together into various formations to inform and to organise. On 31 December, they pulled together representatives from over 20 organizations to think through the intricacies of the new bill and of the new moment, to strategize and to begin to implement counter-strategies.