Climate justice in Tunisia
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Torture Europe Développement Ennahdha Université Pollution Agriculture Enseignement supérieur Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur

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Hamadi Jebali Habib Essid Yassine Brahim Chokri Belaid Mehdi Jomaa Béji Caid Essebsi Mohamed Ayachi Ajroudi Abdallah Kallel Mohamed Najem Gharsalli

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Tunis Gabes Metlaoui Hammamet Kerkennah Sers Mdhila Le Kef
University Samih Beji Okkez 19 April 2019

Professors raise red flag against marginalization of Tunisia’s public universities

Since March 25, 2019, more than 140 university professors have held an open sit-in before the Ministry of Higher Education. The demonstration is the latest development in the course of a two-year mounting crisis involving the Tunisian University Professors and Researchers Union (IJABA) and concerned Ministry. With a warning to the government about the possibility of losing out on an entire academic year, the protest movement is drawing attention to the precarious future of Tunisia’s public universities. As they demand sector reforms, professors are shedding light on the deterioration of the institutions that serve as the country’s incubators of thought and knowledge.

Economy Samih Beji Okkez 02 January 2019

Finance law 2019: exacerbating debt, perpetuating fiscal injustice

Another hot summer in Tunisia gave way to teachers’ strikes in the fall, while winter follows suit with plans for a general strike on January 17. In this context, on December 10 the government adopted the Finance Law of 2019, a package of measures that perpetuate fiscal injustice, aiming to handle the country’s growing deficit by reaching into the pockets of those most impacted by economic crisis. Ahead of the 2019 elections, the new public budget was passed amidst a rejection rate of 30% in parliament, suscitating a new wave of popular and political rejection in the most recent test put to the government of prime minister Youssef Chahed.

Environment Diane Robert 08 February 2017

Investigation: Mohamed Ayachi Ajroudi grabs Hammamet’s forest 

On Sunday, January 22, a group of friends set off to Jbel el Faouara in the hills of Hammamet, where they were threatened by security forces at the service of wealthy businessman Mohamed Ayachi Ajroudi, who is expanding his palace in the foothills, illegally. The following Sunday, residents of Hammamet organized a picnic protest recalling their right to access the green space they love.

Rights Henda Chennaoui 25 November 2016

Truth Commission Public Hearings: Kamel Matmati and Tunisia’s disappeared

Last Thursday, November 17, Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission held the country’s first public hearings with victims of human rights violations carried out under the Bourguiba and Ben Ali regimes. Torture victims—including former political prisoners Sami Brahem and Gilbert Naccache—as well as the families of the disappeared and martyrs of the revolution testified on national television.

Environnement Diane Robert 11 Nov 2016

COP22 à Marrakech : le vernis vert, le profit et l’injustice climatique

La 22ème COP se déroule actuellement à Marrakech, jusqu’au 18 novembre. Ce sommet du climat, qui rassemble des cohortes de négociateurs internationaux, de représentants de firmes multinationales, d’ONG, est l’occasion pour le Makhzen marocain de verdir son image, dans un contexte social tendu. Il confirme aussi la mainmise des intérêts privés sur la question du climat, occultant le débat démocratique sur un modèle de développement obsolète et destructeur qui est à l’origine du changement climatique. Et la Tunisie suit la même tendance.

Environment Diane Robert 08 November 2016

Report: International mobilization against pollution in Gabes

For its stopover in Tunisia, the Ibn Battuta Odyssey of Alternatives, a mobilization across the Mediterranean which culminates at the COP22 in Marrakech, set up camp in Gabes, although the boats had docked in Bizerte. Three days of exchanges and debates concerning an environmentally- and socially-destructive economic model and potential alternatives drew attention to the deplorable environmental situation in Gabes, and were marked by heightened tension following the death of a STEG worker who was asphyxiated by the fumes of the industrial zone. Report.

Politics Vanessa Szakal 03 August 2016

After Obama, what’s in store for Tunisia?

In a letter to Barack Obama on July 27, 121 American analysts and former diplomats called upon the President to make an official visit to Tunisia before the end of his term in January. While some openly request official support for Tunisia, the possible appointment of Youssef Chahed, former employee of the American embassy in Tunis, raises questions around the less overt forms of US engagement with its unique North African partner.

Environnement Hamza Hamouchene 16 Jun 2016

Kerkennah : en première ligne du changement climatique et de la résistance à l’industrie fossile

La Petrofac n’a pas repris ses activités hier, mercredi 15 juin, comme l’avait annoncé mardi dernier, le ministre de l’Energie et des mines. Ahmed Souissi, le représentant de l’Union des chômeurs diplômés à Kerkennah a expliqué que la reprise est tributaire de la satisfaction des revendications des habitants. Les médias dominants ont largement relayé la réunion ministérielle de samedi dernier au siège du gouvernorat de Sfax, la présentant comme une solution aux problèmes de Kerkennah. Mais selon Ahmed Souissi, les habitants ont boycotté cette réunion. Alors que les autorités focalisent sur la création d’une entreprise de services pour embaucher les chômeurs, les habitants de Kerkennah, exigent la création d’un fonds de développement, la lutte contre la corruption, le départ du directeur de Petrofac et plus de redevabilité des entreprises pétrolières. Au-delà des soubresauts de l’actualité, comment le choc entre néolibéralisme et changement climatique pourrait se révéler calamiteux pour l’archipel et ses habitants ? Enquête.

Economy Vanessa Szakal 08 December 2015

EU “support” for Tunisia: loans and free trade to remedy terrorism

With each measure of “support” the EU has offered Tunisia—whether in the form of a sizable loan for security reforms, or a free trade agreement for economic growth—particular emphasis has been placed on the recent successes and imperative role of civil society in the country’s path to democracy. But if what Tunisian civil society demands is a shifting of the scales and relations based on reciprocity, is Europe really prepared to listen?

إقتصاد Hamza Hamouchene 30 أفريل 2015

ديزيرتيك: الإستيلاء على الطاقة المتجددة؟

يبدو أن خطة تزويد أوروبا بالطاقة من محطات الطاقة الشمسية في الصحراء قد توقفت، ولكن لا تزال العديد من المشاريع الشمسية الكبيرة في شمال أفريقيا تمضي قدما رغم المخاوف المحلية. الدكتورحمزة حموشان، يسأل: أين كان الخطأ في مشروع ديزرتيك، وهل يمكن للطاقة الشمسية من الصحراء أن تلعب الآن دورا في مستقبل ديمقراطي ومستدام؟

Themes Meriem Dhaouadi 13 February 2013

Weekly Political Review: Assassination of Chokri Belaid as a Dark Day in the Modern History of Tunisia

Picture this as a cryptic phenomenon in the modern history of Tunisia, a script that is currently being written by revolting masses. It is not one about the true start of this modern history in 1837 with Ahmed Bey’s access to power and the initiatives he undertook abolishing slavery, 18 years before the US, modernizing education by establishing the Saint Louis school in 1845, with its all-inclusive philosophy, giving equal access to modern means to Tunisia’s Muslims and Jews equally