This report has been published to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The report will be promoted with an event in Tunis on 3 December 2015.  Loopholes in Tunisia’s laws are granting perpetrators of rape, sexual assault and physical violence a way out while...

The case of a 22-year-old student sentenced to one year in prison for engaging in “homosexual relations” has finally sparked public debate on same-sex relations in Tunisia. Yesterday, the Minister of Justice Mohamed Salah Ben Aissa made a ground-breaking public call for the decriminalization of...

Tunisia’s reputation as a leader on women’s rights and gender equality in the region rings hollow when the law still allows rapists to get away with their crimes. She was raped. To protect her honour now she has to marry her rapist. He was assaulted, now he stands accused of sodomy. In Tunisia, if...

The use of torture in custody and human rights violations committed in the name of security and counterterrorism will continue unabated unless Tunisia lives up to the commitments it has made today at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, said Amnesty International. During today’s session, the...

The Tunisian government must demonstrate its commitment to human rights by accepting recommendations on combating torture, ending discrimination and protecting women and girls from sexual and gender based violence, said Amnesty International. The Tunisian government received recommendations from...

The jailing of six Tunisian men sentenced to three years in prison for sodomy is a shocking example of deep-rooted state sanctioned discrimination against LGBTI people in the country, said Amnesty International today. The men, some of them university students, appeared to have been convicted...

Amnesty International has written to the Tunisian Minister of Human Rights to express its alarm at statements the Minister made about homosexuality in a television interview earlier this month.In a letter of 23 February, the organization urged Samir Dilou, Minister of Human Rights and Transitional...

 Report reviews human rights in 19 MENA states during 2018 International arms trade and lucrative business deals fuel cycle of abuse Lack of accountability drives widespread repression and civilian suffering Small advances on women’s rights and efforts to tackle past abuses due to civil society...

Hundreds of thousands of people around the world came together to call for justice in Amnesty International’s most successful ever letter-writing campaign, the organization said today.  In December 2013, more than 2.3 million letters, emails, SMS messages, faxes and tweets were sent in the “Write...

2012 has been a good and a bad year for human rights. Below are some of the highlights of the past 12 months. The list is not meant to be exhaustive but gives an overview of human rights trends and events around the world. For more information, photos or to request an interview with one […]

The killing of Palestinian protesters by Israeli forces in Gaza and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a Saudi Arabian consulate glaringly illustrated the unaccountability of Middle Eastern and North African states that resorted to lethal and other violence to repress dissent.

Recent attacks on human rights defenders across the world show the urgent need for Amnesty’s new campaign. A few days ago, on 10 May, a courageous Mexican mother and human rights defender, Miriam Rodriguez, was shot 12 times and killed in her home in Tamaulipas, northern Mexico. Miriam had been...