Houcine Abassi ( ar, حسين العباسي; born 19 August 1947), is a Tunisian unionist.

Biography

He was the Secretary General of the

Tunisian General Labour Union The Tunisian General Labour Union (french: Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail, ''UGTT''. ar, الاتحاد العام التونسي للشغل) is a national trade union center in Tunisia. It has a membership of more than one million and wa ...

(UGTT) since 2011.« Biographie de Houssine Abassi, nouveau secrétaire général de l'UGTT », ''Espace Manager'', 30 décembre 2011
UGTT was part of the

Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet (Arabic: الرباعي التونسي للحوار الوطني‎, French: ''Quartet du dialogue national'') is a group of four civil society organizations that were central mediators in the effort to conso ...

, which was awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize "for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Tunisian Revolution of 2011". Along with other leaders of the Quartet,

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, Mohammed Fadhel Mafoudh and Abdessatar Ben Moussa, Houcine Abassi traveled to

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to collect the

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on 10 December 2015. He is also a permanent member of the Executive Board of the

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and President of the Arab Trade Union Confederation.

Honours and awards

(2015) * Grand-officier of the Order of the Republic of

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(2015) * Commandeur of the

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(2015) * German Africa Foundation prize (2015) * Fairness Awards (2015) *

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from

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(2017) * Honorary Degree from

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(2017)

References

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