An EU study group has recently filed its diagnostic report on Tunisian Civil Society (TCS). A look back at the principal elements of this report and some proposals for future action.
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Informal work, or evidence of the state’s incompetence
The problem is that the informal field is theoretical and is difficult to define. “The informal sector encompasses all employment activity that is executed with out registration, accounting, or paying taxes or dues. Such activity is beyond the state’s control and regulation.
My name is Farah, I am 9 years old, and I work
Today, 1st may, this scene is not limited to child labor and exploitation, for this is the scene that the Tunisian citizen has gotten used to seeing, especially in recent times, all over the capital’s main thoroughfare, Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis.
Sustainably Combatting Unemployment with New Regional Development
The delicate social climate in most inner regions of Tunisia is a reminder of the tension that unemployment has created over the years. Gafsa, home to one of the largest employment producing companies in the region, the Gafsa Phosphate Company (Compagnie des Phosphates de Gafsa, CPG)
Tunisia is backtracking on women’s rights
Tunisia’s historical commitment to women’s rights is being used by Ben Ali as a smokescreen for the persecution they now […]
Tunisia: Prominent Activist Arrested For Environmental Video Report Published Online
On October 20th, 2009, Zouhaïer Makhlouf, a Tunisia Human rights activist and correspondent of Assabil Online website has been arrested for publishing a video report online about the environmental pollution in Nabeul (Dar Chaabane El Fehri), a coastal town in northeastern Tunisia. […]
Tunisia: A country under siege “فعلى الدنيا السلام” [video]
We must put an end to tyranny and humiliation. Tunisian taxpayers’ money is being spent to maintain the status quo […]
Internet Filtering in Tunisia – The OpenNet Initiative Report
Although Tunisia has actively sought to develop its information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, the government continues to pervasively block a range of Web content and has used nontechnical means to impede journalists and human rights activists from doing their work. The filtering of political content and restrictions on online activity has […]
Pilots urge reinstatement of Tunisian pilot
BRUSSELS (AP) — The world’s largest pilots’ group urged Tunisian authorities Monday to reinstate the captain of an airliner that […]
Tunisia: Behind Tunisia’s ‘Economic Miracle’: Inequality and criminalization of protest
Tunisia’s ‘economic miracle’ has not benefited all, nor has it been matched by greater enjoyment of human rights. This was […]
Israeli Army T-Shirts Mock Gaza Killings
The Israeli army is at the centre of a second controversy over the moral conduct of its soldiers in as many days. The revelations centre on t-shirt designs made for soldiers that make light of shooting pregnant Palestinian mothers and children and include images of dead babies and destroyed mosques. […]
Tunisia’s bloggers defy state censors
Foreign tourists know Tunisia for its sunny beaches, ancient ruins and one of the Arab world’s most liberal societies. But for Tunisians, life is a daily tiptoe through a minefield of political taboos enforced by a vast security apparatus and heavily censored media. Now the country’s drive to embrace the internet is giving Tunisians an unexected new outlet to challenge authority.
Tunisian media is becoming more “Islamized”
In a recent report that surveyed radio listeners in Tunisia, the Sigma Consulting Center found that “Zaytouna” – a private religious radio station – topped the list with 12.1 percent audience share throughout the country. Private variety radio station Mosaic came close with 11.3 percent, followed by government-backed radio station […]
A local staff in Japanese embassy to Tunisia pushed to death
After weeks of pressure, stress, harassment and humiliation , Ahmed CHOUL , a young Tunisian local staff working for the embassy of Japan to Tunisia since more than 10 years had fatal heart attack on Friday November 20TH . few weeks ago , he had […]
Torture en Tunisie : Un ancien ministre s’exprime sur El Hiwar Ettounsi
Pour résumer, en utilisant la formule consacrée, cet ancien ministre était «responsable mais pas coupable» quant à la pratique de la torture sur les citoyens tunisiens dans les locaux de l’administration tunisienne. L’entretien est une reprise diffusée le 17 février 2008, où l’on retrouve un TBH assez offensif avec sa manière si particulière dans le paysage médiatique tunisien d’être «cordialement direct».
You Still Can’t Write About Muhammad
Starting in 2002, Spokane, Wash., journalist Sherry Jones toiled weekends on a racy historical novel about Aisha, the young wife […]
Tunisia : – جواباتي كثرت يا ميمة
Dear Mr President Z.A.B.A I am pleased to receive your message from pactejeunesse.tn– pleased because I, as many other young […]
Tunisie : Libération Du journaliste Slim Boukhdir
Reporters sans frontières a exprimé son soulagement à l’annonce de la libération, le 21 juillet 2008, de Slim Boukhdir, intervenue quatre mois avant le terme de sa peine. Le journaliste indépendant a souffert de conditions de détention très difficiles à la prison civile de Sfax (230 km au sud de Tunis), où il était incarcéré depuis le 26 novembre 2007.
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