President Kais Saied marked National Women’s Day in Tunisia on August 13 by sending his wife to make a celebratory speech in which she sang her husband’s praises. That didn’t sit well with many Tunisians who reminded her that ‘first lady’ is not a recognized function in the country.
بدأ من مرحلة الإيقاف مرورا بالتحقيق وصولا إلى العقوبة السجنية، سرد الضحايا خلال جلسات الاستماع العلنية لضحايا انتهاكات حقوق الانسان قصص الإعتداء اللفظيّ والبدني الذّي مارسته أجهزة النظام. عذابات هؤلاء لم تنته بخروجهم بانتهاء مرحلة الإيقاف أو السجن، بل تواصلت في شكل ما كان يعرف بالعقوبة التكميليّة، أو التعذيب الناعم عبر فرض ما اصطلح على تسميته قانونيا بالمراقبة الإداريّة. في مارس سنة 2010، أصدرت الجمعية الدولية لمساندة المساجين السياسيّين، بالتعاون مع موقع “نواة”، تقريرا مفصّلا عن المراقبة الإدارية في تونس بعنوان “مواطنون تحت الحصار”. دراسة تضمّنت شهادات لضحايا هذه العقوبة وأمثلة موثّقة لارتداداتها النفسيّة وانعكاساتها على حياة المساجين السياسيّين عقب تسريحهم من مراكز الإيقاف أو السجون.
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.
On October 14, journalists and women’s association members put their heads and pens together to draft a Declaration of Principles on Media Coverage and Journalistic Practices concerning Violence against Women. The same day, Alaa Chebbi is denounced by activists for “violating press laws” and “normalizing violence against women and little girls […] just to make a buzz.”
Fighting terrorism and respecting human rights are two sides of the same coin, 46 national and international human rights organizations said today in an open letter addressed to all Tunisians and titled “No to Terrorism, Yes to Human Rights.”
With under 48 hours left for parties to complete the negotiations, a new version of the draft agreement is expected this afternoon, but the inclusion or exclusion of explicit human rights or gender specific language remains open for debate.
In seamless consistency with the government’s response to the Bardo and Sousse attacks in March and June, official discourse, superficial security measures, and the actions of security forces since last Tuesday’s tragedy reflect the absence of a comprehensive counterterrorism strategy and have kept alive the notion that effective security requires the relinquishing of certain rights and liberties.
In the minutes and hours following attack transpired the ungracious diffusion on Instagram and Twitter of victims lying lifeless between beach chairs and parasols; dramatized headlines announcing the “beach resort massacre” and innumerable variations recounting the scene … But after the initial shock of and Western media’s knee-jerk reaction to one of three attacks which occurred on June 26, mainstream news reports on terrorism in the country are relatively more substantial and worth contemplating than was the case several months ago.
As civil society and political forces across the Mediterranean debate Europe’s Agenda on Migration, in Tunisia it is the absence of a comprehensive national strategy, cohesive immigration legislation and designated State institutions which is at the heart of migration discussions.
(Tunis, January 14, 2014) – As Tunisia’s National Constituent Assembly (NCA) is discussing the chapter on the judicial powers in […]
Mercredi matin à Tunis avait lieu une conférence de presse de l’ONG Human Rights Watch à l’occasion de la publication de son rapport mondial 2013. Un an après l’élection de l’ANC Human Rights Watch dresse un tableau assez sombre de la situation en Tunisie. Et l’assassinat politique le même jour de Chokri Belaid ne faisait que confirmer l’impression générale.
Les mythes scandent notre vie en autant de récits qui disent notre perception du réel déformé, réduit parfois à du non-sens. Parmi ceux ne traduisant pas la réalité dans sa complexité, il en est un formé de toutes pièces dans les pays du Nord et repris à leur compte par les politiciens du Sud, celui de l’expatriation de leurs ressortissants.
La prise de conscience des droits de l’homme dans la Tunisie post-révolutionnaire constitue un fait majeur. Aujourd’hui, la culture des droits de l’homme font l’objet d’une attention accrue chez la société civile qui vise à armer les citoyens avec des nouveaux outils de citoyenneté.
Is free access to internet a human right”? This was the question that I asked to participants at the Democratic Exchange Forum in Malmo, Sweden. All of the interviewees had one and only one answer “Yes”. Internet is knowledge, and knowledge is one of the human rights”, said George Alain from Syria.
