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This article presents an urgent call to action from a Tunisian feminist who sees the hard-fought legacy of generations of activists evaporate by the day.
Tunisia has become a hostage of President Kais Saied’s mission to consolidate power and destroy every democratic institution and achievement (...)
Ahlem Belhadj died, too young, in Tunis on March 11, 2013. Activist, child psychiatrist by training, she was best known for being the president of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD). We publish below a first set of tributes that we have received.
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The New Anti-Capitalist Party sends its condolences to Myriam, Youssef and Jallal, to all the comrades of Ahlem, activists in the feminist and trade union movement.
Ahlem is leaving at a time when the social movement is particularly targeted, when women’s rights and the democratic rights she (...)
The Bureau of the Fourth International wishes to express its shock and sadness at the death of our dear comrade Ahlem Belhadj.
Ahlem’s warmth, kindness and militant qualities were appreciated by all. As soon as the news was known we received messages from France, Brazil, Mexico, the West (...)
A leading figure in trade unionism, in the fight against oppression, courageous, committed, she was since her age in the front line on all fronts. With a strong voice and determination, she had long carried the cause of democracy and women on her shoulders and in her heart. Dr Ahlem Belhadj, 57 (...)
Zakaria Hannache is present on the Tunisian territory since August 22, 20. Risk of refoulement of asylum seeker in cooperation with Algerian authorities would mark a dangerous turning point for human rights for Tunisia.
Update: Thanks to regional and international mobilization, Zakaria (...)
Tunisia is undergoing an authoritarian restoration in the form of the personalization of power and the hardening of police repression.
Since the coup of 25 July 2021, President Kaïs Saïed has extended his powers. After ending the parliament, suspending the 2014 constitution that emerged from the (...)
One year after his coup de force of 25 July 2021, the Tunisian president Kaïs Saïed has had a new constitution adopted by referendum, giving him almost all the powers.
The Constitution of 25 July 2022 establishes a regime in which the president has most of the powers. Placed under his direct (...)
A decade after their successful uprising, Tunisians are still waiting for the realization of their political, economic, and social demands, despite frightful signs of a lagging economy and stunted politics.
The Tunisian uprising in 2011 was triggered by a spontaneous public demand for social (...)
Hamma Hammami is the Secretary General of the Tunisian Workers’ Party (est. 1986, legalized 2011) and a leader of the Popular Front for the Realization of the Objectives of the Revolution (est. 2012). He is the editor of the newspaper Sawt Achaab, author of eleven books on politics and (...)
The screams for “work, freedom and national dignity”, echoing in the streets throughout Tunisia in 2011, have brought about political and democratic change, that led not only to the abolition of the former dictatorship, but more importantly to a new constitution and gain of political-democratic (...)
According to the Minister of Women, Children and the Elderly, Asma Shiri Laabidi, violence against women in Tunisia has increased five-fold since March 2019. Since the start of the confinement period, several associations have red-flagged this trend.
With its support centers set up in (...)
Relatives say more than 30 people stuck at sea told to go home or lose food and water
More than 30 migrants from Bangladesh who were trapped on a merchant ship off Tunisia for three weeks have been sent back to their home country against their will, according to relatives.
They were among 75 (...)
In the aftermath of what ’s often been referred to as the “Arab Spring”, the European Union (EU) gave much more attention to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region, especially to Tunisia, where the democratic transition was more likely to bring about hope, as its peaceful political (...)
Judicial harassment and rise in arrests under anti-sodomy law add to climate of tension and fear.
One of the Arab world’s most visible advocacy groups defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people is facing closure following legal threats by the government. (...)
Judicial harassment and rise in arrests under anti-sodomy law add to climate of tension and fear.
One of the Arab world’s most visible advocacy groups defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people is facing closure following legal threats by the government. (...)
Today is the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty, organised by La Via Campesina. In this article, Max Ajl reports from Tunisia on the struggles for food sovereignty there, and on what it means for the Global South.
Gabès, the Tunisian South’s garden-city, is otherworldly. It (...)
In Tunisia, major mobilizations led by feminist organizations have taken place in recent weeks to demand full equality in the law, particularly with regard to the Tunisian Personal Status Code (CSP). The CSP consists of a series of legal provisions governing marital relations between men and (...)
Spring 2018 is about to see two fundamental negotiations for Tunisia conducted between representatives of Tunisia and the European Union (EU). First, during the week of April the 17th, negotiations will be held on the readmission of migrants and the facilitation of visa applications for a small (...)
Trade union power and democratic transition in Tunisia The UGTT: a unique story, an unprecedented experience
A case study by Sami Adouani and Saïd Ben Sedrine
With 600,000 members out of a working population of around four million people, the UGTT is the largest, and most influential, (...)
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