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Tunisia Contents

Citizenship and Country Documents

US Government Reports

Foreign Government Reports

  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • TUN101781.FE - Tunisia: The passport; procedures for obtaining a passport – Oct. 2006

Nongovernment Reports

  • Minority Rights Group International
    • Identity and Citizenship in Tunisia: The Situation of Minorities after the 2011 Revolution – Nov. 2018


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Children

US Government Organization Reports

Foreign Government Reports

  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • TUN101796.FE- Tunisia: Financial assistance for students who want to study abroad, particularly in Canada, and conditions for obtaining such scholarships; Tunisia's control over those students – Oct. 2006

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Gender

US Government Organization Reports

  • Congressional Research Service
    • Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Issues for Congress – Dec. 2021

Foreign Government Reports

  • Canada Responses to Information Requests (RIRs)
    • TUN105307.FE - Tunisia: Domestic violence, including legislation, state protection, and support services – Jan. 2016
    • TUN104988.FE - Tunisia: Situation of women who have had a child out of wedlock, including their treatment by family members and society; state protection and available services – Dec. 2014
    • TUN104643.FE - Tunisia: Treatment by society and the authorities of Muslims who are in a relationship with a Christian individual – Nov. 2013
    • TUN101782.FE - Tunisia: Situation of a woman who has a child out of wedlock; the attitude of the mother's family and of Tunisian society toward the mother and her child – Sept. 2006
    • TUN42770.E - Tunisia: Protection and resources available to women fleeing family abuse; whether a single woman could find safety in any part of the country – July 2004

Non-Government Reports

  • Human Rights Watch Profile
    • Trapped - How Male Guardianship Policies Restrict Women’s Travel and Mobility in the Middle East and North Africa - July 2023
    • “So What If He Hit You?” Addressing Domestic Violence in Tunisia - Dec.2022

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Human Rights

US Government Organization Reports

Non-Government Reports

  • Amnesty International 
    • Amnesty International Report 2022/23: The state of the world’s human rights - Mar. 2023
    • Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa Review: 2018
  • Freedom House 
  • Human Rights Watch -  2022, 2021, 2020, 20192018201720162015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
  • Human Rights Watch Profile
    • “No Way Out” Debt Imprisonment in Tunisia - June 2024
    • Ill-Fated Homecomings:  A Tunisian Case Study of Guantanamo Repatriations – Sept. 2007
    • Cracks in the System:  Conditions of Pre-charge Detainees in Tunisia – Nov. 2013
    • Flawed Accountability:  Shortcomings of Tunisia’s Trials for Killings during the Uprising – Jan. 2015
    • “All this for a Joint” Tunisia’s Repressive Drug Law and a Roadmap for Its Reform – Feb. 2016
    • Crushing the person, crushing a movement:  The solitary confinement of political prisoners – April 2005
    • Tunisia:  Long-Term Solitary Confinement of Political Prisoners – July 2004
    • Tunisia:  A Lawsuit Against the Human Rights League, An Assault on All Rights Activists – April 2001
  • International Crisis Group
    • Tunisia’s Challenge: Avoiding Default and Preserving Peace - Dec. 2023

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Justice System

US Government Organization Reports

Non-Government Reports

  • Amnesty International
    • It is essential to end attacks on judicial independence - June 2023
    • Amnesty International Global Report:  Death Sentences and Executions – 2020
    • We Want An End to the Fear’ Abuses Under Tunisia’s State of Emergency – Feb. 2017
  • Human Rights Watch
    • “No Way Out” Debt Imprisonment in Tunisia - June 2024
    • You Say You Want a Lawyer?  Tunisia’s New Law on Detention, on Paper and in Practice – June 2018

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Law

US Government Reports

  • United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)
    • Violating Rights – Enforcing the World’s Blasphemy Laws – Dec. 2020

Non-Government Reports

  • Amnesty International
    • Criminal Prosecutions of Online Speech Outdated and Flawed Laws:  Laws Used to Restrict Speech in Tunisia – Nov. 2020
  • Human Rights Watch Profiles
    • Tunisia:  Tunisia’s Repressive Laws - The Reform Agenda – Nov. 2011

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Maps


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Medical Availability

Intergovernmental Organization Reports

  • World Health Organization Page

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Political Figures and Parties

US Government  Reports

  • Congressional Research Service

Foreign Government Reports

  • Canada Requests for Information Requests (RIRs)
    • TUN104156.FE - Tunisia: Treatment of members of the Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) since the fall of President Ben Ali; state protection provided – July 2012
    • TUN43255.E - Tunisia: Information on the Parti démocratique progressiste (PDP), its status in Tunisia, main leaders, and platform; treatment of its members by the current government – Jan. 2005
    • TUN42689.FE - Tunisia: The Destour Democratic Party; its founding members and founding date; its political persuasion and ideology; its relationship with other established parties; its relationship with the authorities – June 2004

    Non-government Reports

    • International Crisis Group
      • How the Islamic State Rose, Fell and Could Rise Again in the Maghreb - July 2017

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    Religion

    US Government Organization Reports

    • State Department
      • International Religious Freedom Report - 202220212020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
      • United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Special Reports
        • The Religion-State Relationship & the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Comparative Textual Analysis of the Constitutions of Majority Muslim Countries and Other OIC Members – March 2005

    Foreign Government Reports

    • Canada Responses for Information Requests (RIRs)
      • TUN42405.FE - Tunisia: The problems a young Muslim man would encounter within his family, in society and especially at the hands of religious leaders if he said that he was a non-believer and refused to observe the precepts of Islam; state protection, if any, available to such a person – Feb. 2004

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    Sexual Orientation

    US Government Organization Reports

    Foreign government Reports

    • Canada Responses for Information Requests (RIRs)
      • TUN104642.FE - Tunisia: Situation of sexual minorities, including their treatment by society and the authorities, legislation, state protection and support services – Nov. 2013
      • TUN103274.FE  - Tunisia: the status of homosexual men and women, including their treatment; the laws dealing with homosexuality, protection offered by the State and the availability of support services – Nov. 2009
      • TUN42681.FE - Tunisia: Update to TUN35742.F of 31 October 2000 regarding the situation of homosexuals; the attitude of the authorities; protection offered to homosexuals – May 2004
    • Non-Government Organization Reports
    • Human Rights Reports
      • “All This Terror Because of a Photo” Digital Targeting and Its Offline Consequences for LGBT People in the Middle East and North Africa - Feb. 2023

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    Speech / Press / Internet

    Non-Government Organization Reports

    • Amnesty International
      • Criminal Prosecutions of Online Speech Outdated and Flawed Laws:  Laws Used to Restrict Speech in Tunisia – Nov. 2020
    • Freedom on the Net - 202320222021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
    • Human Rights Watch Profiles
      • The Price of Independence:  Silencing Labor and Student Unions in Tunisia – Oct. 2010

     


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    Timeline

    BBC


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    Trafficking

    US Government Reports


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    Terrorism

    US Government Reports


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Updated June 14, 2024