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Week In Review: Interview with the ICC Prosecutor, Women and Slaves
...opponents were victims twice over, our correspondent Olfa Belhassine explains, both of the regime and of society which condemns them.“We know that the taboos weighing…
Women Victims Step Up As Tunisia Truth Commission Deadline Nears
Thanks to the efforts of several civil society organizations in Tunisia, the number of cases of women victims filed with the country’s Truth and Dignity…
On World Press Freedom Day, Tunisian Media Struggling with New Freedoms
Olfa Belhassine is a journalist for newspaper La Presse in Tunisia and correspondent for JusticeInfo in that country. To mark World Press Freedom Day this…
An “Arab Winter” for Women after the “Arab Spring”?
Arab women had hoped revolutions in their countries would bring them greater freedom. But as they face economic hardship, forced exile, sexual violence, early marriage…
A Perspective on Tunisia’s New Words and Civil Society
We publish here extracts from a book co-authored by Olfa Belhassine, our correspondent in Tunisia, and journalist Hedia Baraket. “The New Words that make Tunisia”…
Week in Review: Surprise ICTY Acquittal Upsets a Pattern
...Olfa Belhassine and Hedia Baraket. One example is the term for civil society (mojtama‘ madanî in Arabic), which has emerged as a success story of…
Impunity Rules for Torture in Tunisia
Halim Meddeb is a lawyer committed to fighting human rights violations. He also works as legal advisor at the Tunis office of the World Organization…
Week in Review: Women and Transitional Justice Failures
...Olfa Belhassine. And Tunisian sociologist and women’s activist Dorra Mahfoudh asks: “What is a revolution worth if it does not change prejudices, inequalities and attitudes?”The…
Tunisian Women Set their Sights on Parity
On the morning of January 14, 2011, the growing crowd on Avenue Bourguiba in central Tunis was mixed. There were as many women as men…
“Just Let Us Work in Peace,” says Tunisia Truth Commission Head
Sihem Bensedrine, who was a dissident journalist in the time of ex-President Ben Ali, has since June 9, 2014, been heading Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity…