The Civil Coalition for Individual Freedom issued its annual report on the status of individualism in Tunisia during the year 2019, which was prepared by the associations and organizations forming the coalition. It contained an inventory and assessment of the violations that affected the exercise of individual freedoms, and also included the most important gains related to it.
The report stated that violations of individual liberties, which have been documented and reported by member associations of the coalition, are mainly based on a discriminatory view, especially involving women, gay, lesbian, transgender and intersectional men and women.
The report also explained that during the year 2019, women were deprived of a number of their basic rights, especially related to the free choice of spouses as well as access to contraceptive services / abortion. Members of the LGBTQ+ community were victims of ongoing harassment from the police, judiciary and the media.
The report also examined violations of the rights of minors and children and obstacles that prevent the exercise of fundamental rights, such as the achievement of justice and the exercise of religious freedom.
On the other hand, the report highlighted some of the gains that have been made in the exercise of individual freedoms, at the legislative, organizational and institutional levels.
Despite the existence of these gains, its fulfilment remained less than expected, given the continuous absence of the Constitutional Court, as the report dwelt on the dynamics of Tunisian civil society with a view to perpetuating individual freedoms.
The report evaluated the challenges and priorities for the year 2020, in relation to individual freedoms, these challenges and priorities that were dictated by the electoral period of 2019, which was marked by a remarkable emergence of populism that targeted individual freedoms over and over again by making them secondary freedoms according to a hierarchical idea of rights and freedoms, an idea that the coalition seeks to refute .
The report emphasized that the security measures taken in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic could constitute, through its strict nature, fertile ground for violating individual rights and freedoms, pointing out that although they are necessary and justified in most cases, these measures can be done through an arbitrary limit for exercising rights and freedoms by specifying priority and
secondary rights and freedoms that can be dispensed with, according to the coalition report.
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