Interview with Professor Wahid Ferchichi: Individual Liberties during COVID 19 Published: 27 November 2020 COVID-19 has radically changed our lives. Hence, it is crucial to analyze the ways in which the responses of the Tunisian authorities' to the pandemic and the implementation of effective and proportionate security measures have affected the civil rights and individual freedoms of citizens. In this interview, Mahassen Segni, our Democracy Program Coordinator, speaks to Professor Wahid Ferchichi, Professor at the Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences of Carthage University and founder of the Tunisian Association for the Defense of Individual Liberties, about the challenges of having effective COVID-19 measures while staying committed to the protection of individual rights and liberties for the whole period of the crisis. For more information, please see a follow-up report covering the period from March to July 2020.
Hidden hardship of an unnoticed workforce Published: 3 November 2021 Our report provides a better understanding of economic lives of refugees and migrants in Tunisia and includes recommendations for key stakeholders including Tunisian authorities.
Environmentalism After Decentralization Published: 29 April 2021 Based on three cases studies, the report sheds light on the gaps in urban solid waste management which, in the most serious cases, can endanger public health.
Places of safety in the mediterranean: The EU's policy of outsourcing responsibility Published: 16 September 2020 Is Tunisia a safe place for disembarking of migrants and refugees? The answer to this question is within the summary.
State of individual liberties in 2019 Published: 7 July 2020 This report, published by CCIL, reviews the violations, progress, challenges and priorities in terms of individual liberties in Tunisia.
Perspectives #10 - Borders: Lines in the Sand or in the Mind? Published: 20 October 2016 When ISIS announced the establishment of the so-called ‘Islamic State’ it fuelled discussions as to whether this would herald the ‘end of Sykes-Picot’ – borders artificially drawn by the colonial powers at the beginning of the twentieth century. But borders are more than ‘lines in the sand’: they divide. While the privileged few may cross legitimately by simply presenting their passport, for most, these borders present difficult if not insurmountable hurdles. People fleeing from war, climate change or economic hardship, attempt to cross the Mediterranean but many drown trying.
Perspectives #9 - A Region Heating Up: Climate Change Activism in the Middle East and North Africa Published: 29 August 2016 The Middle Eastern and Northern African (MENA) region, faced with tumultuous changes in the last five years, shows a picture of shrinking spaces for civil society activism. In contrast, ecological activism is growing and connecting the fight for climate justice to other demands for community and indigenous rights, gender equality, democracy and transparency.
A change of course - How to build a fair future in a 1.5° world Published: 1 November 2016 In Paris in December 2015 the parties to the UN Climate Convention agreed to keep global warming „well below“ 2 degrees Celsius, ideally at only 1,5 degrees by 2100.
Tricky Business: Space for Civil Society in Natural Resource Struggles Published: 12 December 2017 Governments and corporations are driving the demand for water, land and organic resources of all kinds as never before. Citizens are fighting for their rights and working to preserve their livelihoods. Our study "Tricky Business" shows how the mechanisms of expropriation work.
Stakeholders Report: Universal Periodic Review of Tunisia Published: 23 November 2017 The Tunisian coalition for the rights of LGBTIQ people submits this report on the situation of the LGBTQI community on the occasion of the Universal Periodic Review of Tunisia scheduled for May 2017.