Useful Information

Publications

	UN Human Rights Report 2017
	OHCHR Management Plan 2018-2021
	Human Rights in Action (PDF)
	A Handbook for Civil Society (PDF)

Tunisia

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Tunisia and UN Charter-based Bodies

Tunisia and UN Treaty Bodies

Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles and letter by the High Commissioner to the Foreign Minister

Special Procedures

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism - Mission to Tunisia (A/HRC/40/52/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers - Mission to Tunisia (A/HRC/29/26/Add.3)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence Mission to Tunisia (A/HRC/24/42/Add.1)

Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice - Mission to Tunisia (A/HRC/23/50/Add.2)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants - Mission to Tunisia (A/HRC/23/46/Add.1)

>>Full list of documents in the Charter-based bodies Database

Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2016) E/C.12/TUN/CO/3

Committee on Enforced Disappearances
Concluding observations (2016) CED/C/TUN/CO/1

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2016) CAT/C/TUN/CO/3

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Concluding observations (2011) CRPD/C/TUN/CO/1

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2010) CEDAW/C/TUN/CO/6

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2010) CRC/C/TUN/CO/3

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2009) CERD/C/TUN/CO/19

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations (2009) CRC/C/OPAC/TUN/CO/1

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2008) CCPR/C/TUN/CO/5

>>Full list of documents in the Treaty Body Database

OHCHR in Tunisia

In January 2011, Tunisia became the first country in the MENA region to change its autocratic regime through a widespread and peaceful popular uprising. Following this major transformation, an OHCHR assessment mission was dispatched to Tunisia by the High Commissioner in order to assess how the Office could accompany national efforts towards the establishment of a democratic society in Tunisia.
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Contact Information

Headquarters

Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact is in Geneva, Switzerland.

Middle East and North Africa Section
Tel. +41 22 928 9153

Office

Rue du Lac de Windermere
Immeuble Prestige Business Center – 1er étage
Tour A
Les Berges du Lac 1, 1053 Tunis
Tel: (+216) 71.286.900 and
(+216) 71.286.270
Fax: (+216) 71.28.69.88
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