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Tunisian torture victims seek justice at the UN after years of judicial failure in national courts

Written by Raseef22

11 February 2025

West Asia and North Africa in 2024: Turmoil, transformation, and trauma

Written by Walid El Houri

23 December 2024

Africa’s triumphs and trials at the 2024 Paralympic Games

Written by Richard Wanjohi, Guest Contributor

20 September 2024

‘Power belongs to the people’: New wave of protests in Tunisia as elections approach

Written by Walid El Houri

17 September 2024

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Ahead of its controversial elections, Tunisia bans magazine Jeune Afrique for criticizing the president

The banning of Jeune Afrique is another step in Kais Saied’s clampdown on independent media, further undoing the democratic gains of the 2011 revolution

Written by Walid El Houri

6 September 2024

Turkey's search for gold has a massive humanitarian and environmental impact

At least nine workers are still missing

Written by Arzu Geybullayeva

20 February 2024

African institutions maintain silence on sub-Saharan migrant rights abuses in Tunisia

Only civil society appears to be concerned by the abuse migrants face

Written by Jean Sovon, Arnauld Kassouin Translated by Jean-Christophe Brunet

17 August 2023

Can Algerian human rights defenders be safe in Tunisia?

Tunisia depends on Algeria for survival, reciprocating with compliance.

Written by Saoussen Ben Cheikh

28 July 2023

Deconstructing the politics behind the mistreatment of migrants from Africa in Tunisia

'The EU and Tunisia exchanged human rights for immigration control'

Written by Mariam A., Saoussen Ben Cheikh, Zita Zage

20 July 2023

How will Tunisia include its growing poor in an increasingly digital society?

Without intervention social divides will only grow

Written by Saoussen Ben Cheikh

19 July 2023

Tunisia’s dependence on its Algerian brother: the reign of the counter-revolution axis

Tunisia revives pre-revolution order with Algeria's assistance, undermining democracy

Written by Saoussen Ben Cheikh

20 April 2023

Tunisia is stuck in a permanent state of emergency

Tunisia's continued state of emergency is threatening its fledging democracy

Written by Saoussen Ben Cheikh

20 March 2023

Opening of shipping routes from Ukraine will not abate commodity and food pressure on the Middle East and North Africa

Low harvests, destroyed equipment, occupied lands threaten global food supply

Written by Global Voices Central & Eastern Europe

14 August 2022

How this Tunisian island brings Muslims and Jews together

Home to Africa's oldest synagogue, Djerba celebrates its Jewish roots annually

Written by Raseef22

28 July 2022

Tunisia: New prosecutions resurrect shadow of dictatorship

Despite reforms in 2011, gaps in legislation allow for repression

Written by Yosr Jouini

16 December 2021

To save its economy, can Tunisia reform its oversized public sector?

With the state’s coffers empty, reform is the only solution

Written by Saoussen Ben Cheikh

22 June 2021

Tunisians left to themselves to fight COVID-19

Crumbling healthcare system is pushed to the limit

Written by Saoussen Ben Cheikh

20 May 2021

Tunisia’s fight against COVID-19 unmasks shaky ground for digital rights

The government turned to penal codes to stifle coronavirus criticism

Written by Yosr Jouini

19 January 2021

‘Stop silencing MENA critical voices,’ say activists in open letter to Twitter and Facebook

Human rights defenders denounce censorship by social media platforms

Written by Dahlia Kholaif

20 December 2020

Rights groups in Tunisia mobilize against police protection bill

As activists mobilized against the bill, police targeted them

Written by Rima Sghaier

9 October 2020

COVID-19 has accelerated digitalization but will Tunisia log on?

Delayed digitalization is symptomatic of a political stalemate in Tunisia

Written by Saoussen Ben Cheikh

30 July 2020

‘Invisible hands': How millions of domestic workers fare under COVID-19

Unions and organizations fight against weak contracts

Written by Emma Lewis, Belen Febres-Cordero, Saoussen Ben Cheikh, Mina Nowrozi, Violeta Camarasa, Juliana Harsianti, Romina Navarro, Giovana Fleck

20 July 2020

Impoverished youth in the Middle East turn to cheap — sometimes deadly — alcohol

‘We are forgotten by the authorities’

Written by Saoussen Ben Cheikh

17 June 2020

As COVID-19 accelerates digital transformation, is the internet safe for women in the Middle East?

Online violence restricts opportunities for women

Written by Saoussen Ben Cheikh

1 June 2020

From counterterrorism to counter-COVID-19, governments use crises to impose continuous states of emergency in the Middle East

Emergency powers carry the risk of undermining rule of law

Written by Saoussen Ben Cheikh

22 May 2020

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