In a rather low-key, overlooked way, the Tunisian Minister of Culture, Mourad Sakli, has announced yesterday on a radio program on Jawhara FM that the ministry plans on privatizing Tunisian heritage sites. The plan is to have private companies lease the sites for periods of 25 to 30 years.
The deposition of former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi: call it what you like – a popular uprising, a military coup, a continuation of the “Arab Spring”, or a hammer blow to democratic reform efforts. Whatever it was, Tunisia is certainly not immune to it.
Today, we are confronting what we could credibly call a ‘crisis.’ An identity crisis, a socioeconomic crisis, and most of all, a daily, practical crisis.
Ever since the attacks against the US Embassy and American school in Tunis, the world’s attention has been refocused on Tunisia. I have been holding my breath since the events took place and have also been reading plenty of analyses about the situation in the meantime.
Le 1 août dernier a eu lieu, au sein de la commission des droits et libertés de l’ANC, un vote sur des la protection des droits de la femme. Une protection édictée en des termes ambigues puisque la femme y est décrite comme « la partenaire de l’homme ».
On August 1, 2012, the Tunisian committee on rights and liberties – one of the constitutional committees charged with drafted different chapter in the Tunisian constitution – voted in controversial new language that promises to protect women’s rights as “man’s partner.”
« Derrière ces troubles en Tunisie se trouvent des criminels, des trafiquants de drogue et des extrémistes salafistes », c’est ce qu’a déclaré ce mardi à l’ANC, Ali Larayedh, le ministre de l’Intérieur. M. Larayedh a été invité à s’exprimer devant l’Assemblée…
“Criminals, drug traffickers, and Salafist extremists are the ones behind the unrest,” Ali Laraayedh, the Tunisian Minister of the Interior, told the Constituent Assembly on Tuesday. The minister was invited to speak to the assembly and answer its questions
Le 4 Juin, les membres du groupe OpenGovTN (une initiative qui vise à institutionnaliser la transparence dans la Tunisie nouvelle) ont rencontré Karima Souid, la représentante de l’information et de communication officielle de l’Assemblée constituante.
On June 4th, members of the OpenGovTN group (an initiative that works to institutionalize transparency in the new Tunisia) met with the information and communication official in the Constituent Assembly, representative Karima Souid.
Tout a commencé il y a 3 mois au sein de la Commission des Finances de l’Assemblée constituante. Un membre de l’Assemblée constituante, qui ne siège pas au sein de cette commission, m’a confiée sous couvert d’anonymat :
It all started 3 months ago in the Constituent Assembly’s Finance Committee. One Constituent Assembly member, who does not sit on the committee, anonymously confided to me: “It was one of the first things they discussed.”
Le 16 décembre dernier, l’Assemblée constituante tunisienne a adopté son règlement intérieur, un règlement qui s’applique pour toute la durée du mandat. Il gère tout : des règles de procédure établissant les commissions et sous-commissions…
On December 16, 2011, the Tunisian Constituent Assembly passed the internal bylaws it was to operate under for the duration of its mandate. The bylaws cover everything from the procedural regulations that first established the assembly’s committees and subcommittees to the number of unexcused absences
يمثل التصويت حقا أساسياً للمواطنين في كل الديمقراطيات، كما يمثل بالتوازي مسؤولية منوطة بعهدة المسؤولين الذين يتم انتخابهم. هؤلاء المسؤولون مدعوون للتصويت على مجموعة من القضايا، بمقتضى توكيلنا لهم كمواطنين للتعبير عن مواقفنا منها.
Voter constitue un droit élémentaire des citoyens dans toute démocratie qui fonctionne, c’est également une responsabilité confiée aux représentants élus du peuple.
To vote constitutes an elemental right of the citizens of any functioning democracy, and acts dually as an entrusted responsibility of the officials that are elected. These officials are to vote on issues that we, as citizens, give them permission to represent…
Since last Thursday, the national Constituent Assembly has been discussing the national budget proposed by Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. Until yesterday, the assembly discussed the budget in a general fashion – today, assembly members are going through the budget proposal
