The Politics of the Truth and Dignity Commission in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Gender Justice as a threat to Democratic transition?
Categories: Human Rights, Statebuilding
Sub-Categories: Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), Transitional Justice
Country: Tunisia
Region: Middle East and North Africa
Year: 2016
Citation: Zaki, Hind Ahmed, “The Politics of the Truth and Dignity Commission in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Gender Justice as a threat to Democratic transition?” in Women and Gender in Middle East Politics, POMEPS Studies no. 19. Washington, DC: Project on Middle East Political Science [POMEPS], May 2016.
Sub-Categories: Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), Transitional Justice
Country: Tunisia
Region: Middle East and North Africa
Year: 2016
Citation: Zaki, Hind Ahmed, “The Politics of the Truth and Dignity Commission in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Gender Justice as a threat to Democratic transition?” in Women and Gender in Middle East Politics, POMEPS Studies no. 19. Washington, DC: Project on Middle East Political Science [POMEPS], May 2016.
Executive Summary
For decades, thousands of Tunisian women suffered from systematic sexual violence at the hands of state agents. The establishment of a Truth and Dignity commission less than two years ago has empowered many of these women to seek legal remedies and public recognition of those crimes. Redress for gender-based violations at the hands of state agents in Tunisia represents an important, albeit until recently ignored, dimension of Tunisia’s post-revolutionary democratic transition.