Tunisia is not “only” Arabic but Carthaginian, Roman, German, Byzantine, Turkish, somewhat French and Spanish and Andalusian naturally. In thirty years of his reign, Habib Bourguiba, the founder of independent Tunisia, has made this nation the embodiment of modernity – abolition of polygamy, introduction of divorce through the courts, free consent of future spouses…
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Despite a hostile environment, Tunisia’s democratisation process since 2011 has survived and progressed. Yet crucial structural reforms to ensure effective governance, economic growth and resilient democracy have yet to be implemented…
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Whenever any country makes its first hopeful steps towards a more democratic government, we are easily inclined to conclude that it has become a democracy. But real democracy is more than just elections. It is diversity, accountability…
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Tunisia still faces numerous hurdles to protecting its human rights gains nine years after Tunisians ousted the authoritarian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2020. The authorities failed to scrap laws that are still being applied to punish Tunisians for peaceful criticism or for pursuing their private lives as…
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It has been three months since free and fair presidential and legislative elections were held in Tunisia, the Arab world’s only democratic, secular state, and still no new government has been installed. Last Friday, lawmakers rejected the proposed cabinet of the designated prime minister Habib Jemli. President Kais Saied has now to ask another political figure to …
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