[1][2] She said later that it was important to honour the memory of those who lost their lives to Islamist forces by combating extremist ideology and discrediting jihad.
[2] She was a keen proponent of women's rights and was head of the Tarwa n'Fadhma n'Soumer association, campaigning for family code reform and equality.
She was concerned that men would force women to accept a matrimonial guardian and saw it as a concession to the Islamic Movement of Society for Peace who had opposed the new law.
[8] Chouaki was a member of the International Africa Secretariat of the Marche mondiale des Femmes and of the supervising committee of the Forum Social Maghrébin.
The day prior to her death she had been making preparations for a women's march against poverty and inequality to be held in Marseille, France.