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Tunisia: Remembering Sadok Hichri: Civil society paid tribute on 20 June to Sadok Hichri, one of the leaders of the Baath Arab Nationalist Party, who died 36 years ago.…
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As Tunisia emerges from confinement, what future for its specialized chambers?: As Tunisia this week starts gradually coming out of confinement, will the fate of the judicial chambers specialized in transitional justice be sacrificed on the…
French commission sheds first light on sexual abuse in the Church: A creative kind of non-state truth commission, charged with establishing the facts on sexual abuses committed in the church in France since 1950, has been…
Justice is eminently political, says Tunisian expert: What are the links between transitional justice and political changes in Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria? We talked to Eric Gobe, research director at the French…
Reunion’s transplanted children still waiting for justice: Between 1962 and 1984, 2,015 children and adolescents from Reunion Island were “transplanted” to mainland France. On 10 April 2018, a report commissioned by the…
Tunisian President “can put dictatorship archives at centre of debate”: In the aftermath of the Tunisian revolution, Farah Hached founded Labo Democratique, an NGO whose aim is to help consolidate a “living and innovative” democracy.…
Tunisia and the repression of left-wing youth: In the 1960s and 1970s, young Tunisian students joined the extreme left to oppose the absolute power of President Bourguiba. They were called “Perspectivists”. They…
Tunisian government to “respond to all TRC demands”: There is a wind of change in Tunisia following several announcements hailed by civil society: upcoming publication in the Official Journal of the truth commission’s…
Tunisia: Battle over Truth Commission archives: Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission has recently completed the transfer of its archives to the country’s National Archives. But it does not want this institution…
Tunisia: Truth still elusive in symbolic Barkati case: The trial of the alleged torturers and killers of Nabil Barkati, a leftwing activist tortured to death in 1987, seems to be the most advanced…
“I’m not sure Tunisia’s political parties will advance human rights,” says expert: Law professor and human rights activist Wahid Ferchichi is an expert on transitional justice in Tunisia. Nine years after the revolution in Tunisia and one…
Tunisian victims still suffering nine years on: Nine years after the Tunisian revolution, which began on 17 December 2010, victims of serious human rights violations are still in great distress. Poorly coordinated…
Indigenous people are winning court battles: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE SERIES (2/3) The Amazonian ecosystem is under threat, yet indigenous people have been fighting for it for more than 20 years before the…
Tunisia’s specialized courts at a standstill: In a deserted courtroom, two victims recounted the arrests, brutal interrogations, torture and lay-offs that followed the strike of 26 January 1978. Yet this is…
Tunisia: what will the newly elected do for transitional justice?: Tunisia has a new jurist President and a new political landscape emerging from the October 6 elections which could, if confirmed by the game of…
Christel Cournil: Now is the time to link the climate issue to human rights: JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Christel Cournil Professor of public law at Sciences Po Toulouse, co-author of “Les procès climatiques : entre le national et l’international” (2018). Swedish…