The protection of human rights in Tunisia mapped in new study

Since 2011 and in particular with the 2014 Constitution, Tunisia has set out to establish new actors and mechanisms for human rights. This study is a mapping of public independent actors and governmental actors that outlines the developing human rights system. It shows the variety of actors and the potential for improving relations between them in order to ensure human rights protection in Tunisia.

The study seeks to provide a better grasp of the Tunisian human rights system as a whole and an understanding of the central role of the public infrastructure for the protection of human rights: its actors, its normative framework and the various processes that take place at the national level. The objective of the analysis of the Tunisian institutional landscape is to give a complete overview of the public actors and their mandates at a time of recasting or creation of a human rights protection system.

It is is a snapshot of the landscape of public actors that was taken at the end of 2017. Over time, it could show how the actors and the human rights protection system of Tunisia evolve.

This study underlines the necessity for central actors of the national human rights system to be aware of and explore possible cooperation and interactions among themselves,
Stéphanie Lagoutte, researcher with DIHR.

The study is a result of a collaboration with Salsabil Klibi and Jinen Limam, lecturers of the Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Science of Tunis, who have drafted the first versions of part 2 and 3 of the study. Wahid Ferchichi, lecturer, has contributed to the study in its final phase of edition. Stéphanie Lagoutte, researcher and Annali Kristiansen, advisor, both from the Danish Institute of Human Rights, have edited the final version of the study.

The study is available in Arabic and French and was funded by the Danish Arab Partnership Programme

An English version of the study will be available soon.