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Tunisian Association Of Democratic Women
The Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (French: ''L'Association tunisienne des femmes démocrates'' (ATFD), Arabic: الجمعية التونسية للنساء الديمقراطيات) is a Tunisian feminist association which was founded in 1989. History In the 1970s and 1980s, a group of Tunisian intellectuals formed a debating circle around feminist topics in the Tahar-Haddad cultural club with the support of Jalila Hafsia. The Tunisian Association of Democratic Women was officially founded on the 6th of August 1989. It is an independent organization that criticises Muslim influences on society, a lack of democracy and violations of women's rights. It judges the development on women's rights in Tunisia according to international standards like the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Tunisia did advance earlier in granting women more rights. For example through the Code of Personal Status in Tunisia which was established after ...
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Yosra Frawes
Yosra Frawes, born in Djedeida, is a Tunisian business lawyer, human rights activist and feminist. Biography On the initiative of her teacher of civic education, she attended 1995 a debate on the role of Tunisian women in popular soap operas She then joined the youth club of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women while campaigning in the General Union of Tunisian Students. In 2000, she launched a petition calling for gender equality in inheritance. After the Tunisian revolution of 2011, Yosra joined the group of legal experts who verified the texts of the democratic transition within the Higher Authority for Realisation of the Objectives of the Revolution, Political Reform and Democratic Transition. Meanwhile, she devoted herself to denouncing human rights abuses and inequalities. She then worked on a bill of violence against women which was later adopted by the Assembly of the Representatives of the People in July 2017. Distinguished by her activism for the protection of ...
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Kais Saied
Kais Saied ( ; born 22 February 1958) is a Tunisian politician, jurist and retired assistant professor of law currently serving as the fifth president of Tunisia since October 2019. He was president of the Tunisian Association of Constitutional Law from 1995 to 2019. Having worked in various legal and academic roles since the 1980s, Saied joined the 2019 Tunisian presidential election, 2019 presidential election as an Independent politician, independent social conservative supported by Ennahda and others across the political spectrum. Running with little campaigning, Saied ran on a populist anti-corruption platform. He won the second round of the election with 72.71% of the vote, defeating Nabil Karoui, and was sworn in as president on 23 October 2019. As president, Saied has overseen democratic backsliding, as he has repressed the political opposition and dissidents in Tunisia. In January 2021, 2021 Tunisian protests, protests began in response to alleged police brutality, ec ...
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Social History Of Tunisia
Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it or not, and whether the exchange is voluntary or not. Etymology The word "social" derives from the Latin word ''socii'' ("allies"). It is particularly derived from the Italian ''Socii'' states, historical allies of the Roman Republic (although they rebelled against Rome in the Social War of 91–87 BC). Social theorists In the view of Karl Marx,Morrison, Ken. ''Marx, Durkheim, Weber. Formations of modern social thought'' human beings are intrinsically, necessarily and by definition social beings who, beyond being "gregarious creatures", cannot survive and meet their needs other than through social co-operation and association. Their social characteristics are therefore to a large extent an objectively given fact, stamped on them from birth and affirmed by socialization processes; and, according to Marx, in producing and reproduci ...
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Organizations Established In 1989
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is an entity—such as a company, or corporation or an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. Organizations may also operate secretly or illegally in the case of secret societies, criminal organizations, and resistance movements. And in some cases may have obstacles from other organizations (e.g.: MLK's organization). What makes an organization recognized by the government is either filling out incorporation or recognition in the form of either societal pressure (e.g.: Advocacy group), causing concerns (e.g.: Resistance movement) or being considered the spokesperson of a group of people subject to negotiation (e.g.: the Polisario Front being recognized as the sole representative of the Sahrawi people and forming a partially recognized state.) Compare the concept of social groups, which may include non-orga ...
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1989 Establishments In Tunisia
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December; the movement ended in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Revolutions against communist governments in Eastern Europe mainly succeeded, but the year also saw the suppression by the Chinese government of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. It was the year of the first Brazilian direct presidential election in 29 years, since the end of the military government in 1985 that ruled the country for more than twenty years, and marked the redemocratization process's final point. F. W. de Klerk was elected as State President of South Africa, and his regime gradually dismantled the aparthei ...
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Feminist Organisations In Tunisia
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern societies are patriarchal—they prioritize the male point of view—and that women are treated unjustly in these societies. Efforts to change this include fighting against gender stereotypes and improving educational, professional, and interpersonal opportunities and outcomes for women. Originating in late 18th-century Europe, feminist movements have campaigned and continue to campaign for women's rights, including the right to vote, run for public office, work, earn equal pay, own property, receive education, enter into contracts, have equal rights within marriage, and maternity leave. Feminists have also worked to ensure access to contraception, legal abortions, and social integration; and to protect women and girls from sexual assault, sexual harassment, and dom ...
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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 consolidate democratic gains and form a lasting constitutional settlement in Tunisia following the unrest and historic regime change of the 2011 Jasmine Revolution. /sup> The quartet was formed in the summer of 2013 following a political crisis that halted the constitutional process. As a result of the Quartet's success in bringing the Ennahda-led government to see negotiations through and producing a historic constitution, on 9 October 2015, the quartet was awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize. The National Dialogue Quartet comprises the following organizations in Tunisian civil society: * The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT, ''Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail'') * The Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts ( ...
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Express FM
Express FM is a private Tunisian radio station specializing in economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ... which was founded on October 21, 2010 by Mourad Gueddiche and Naoufel Ben Rayana, co-founders of Maghreb Productions Communication (MPC). Express FM is the fifth-launched private radio station in Tunisia. Key people * Karim Benamor, Head of Programming * Najoua Rahoui, General Manager See also * Shems FM References External links * Radio stations in Tunisia Radio stations established in 2010 {{Tunisia-radio-station-stub ...
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Monia Ben Jemia
Monia Ben Jemia (born 1958) is a Tunisian law professor, academic, feminist and president of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD). Jemia is a professor of law at the University of Carthage The University of Carthage (, ) is a university located in Tunis, Tunisia, and was founded in 1988. Organization University of Carthage is formed by 21 institutions under single-supervision and 12 under joint-supervision. The first category is .... Biography Jemia reports that because she was born into a conservative family, she was immensely inspired by the feminist works of Simone Du Beauvoir as a teenager. Jemia's mother was illiterate and her family stuck to strict gender roles. She was one of the first in her family to complete advanced studies. As soon as the ATFD was created, she joined, and she eventually became president of the organization. ATFD focuses on trying to curb issues of violence against women (such as making incest easier to prosecute and adoptin ...
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Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane
Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane is a Tunisian medical professional. She was Tunisia's health minister. She took office in the interim Tunisian government which began on January 28, 2011, after protests had dislodged a longstanding authoritarian government. Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane earned a public health degree from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tunis (1978) and trained further in public health at Laval University (1979), the University of Chicago (1981) and the University of Tokyo (1988). She is a professor of preventive medicine with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tunis and head of the Laboratory for Research on the epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular diseases and has worked with the World Health Organization. In 2001, she received the Award of Maghreb societies of Medical Sciences. She is a founding member of the Tunisian League of Epidemiology, and other national and international medical societies. (fr) Habiba Zehi Ben Romdhane cofounded the ...
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Safia Farhat
Safia Farhat (; née, Foudhaili; 1924 – 7 February 2004) was a pioneer of visual arts in Tunisia, as well as an academic and a women's rights activist. She is remembered for establishing modern tapestry in her country, as well as for her contributions in the fields of design, painting, ceramics, upholstery, and decorative arts, employing various materials such as stamps, ceramics, stained glass, and tapestry. Farhat also founded the first Arab-African feminist magazine, ''Faïza''. Biography Born in Radès in 1924, she was educated in France and Tunisia, including at the Tunis Institute of Fine Arts. Farhat is remembered for establishing modern tapestry in Tunisia. She was a crucial part in creating collaborations between artists and artisans from the state-run craft industry during the period of Tunisian Socialism. Her role as the first female and first Tunisian director of the postcolonial School of Fine Arts in Tunis helped change the schools colonial, male-dominated cultu ...
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Sana Ben Achour
Sana Ben Achour (, born 1955) is a Tunisian academic, lawyer and activist, and a specialist in public law. She is a professor of public law at the Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences at the University of Carthage. She is active in several feminist organisations, and has founded a women's refuge shelter. Early life Sana Ben Achour was born in La Marsa, Tunisia in 1955, daughter of the theologian Mohamed Fadhel Ben Achour (1909–1970). She is the sister of Rafâa and Yadh Ben Achour. Career Ben Achour's career has focused on legal education and scientific research in law, and her work covers four main areas: urbanism and cultural heritage, Tunisian law during the colonial period, the status of women, and democracy and civil liberties. An activist committed to equality and citizenship, she is involved with several organizations: the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (Association tunisienne des femmes démocrates - ATFD), of which she has been the president, t ...
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