Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES by its French initials) issued a press release in which it held the Tunisian government responsible for the traffic accident of a truckload of agricultural workers in a rural countryside in Kairouan.
“The government did not move amid the succession and recurrence of these horrific incidents”, FTDES said in its statement.
FTDES denounced the government’s behavior for not issuing any orders to organize the work of these agricultural female workers under clear legal provisions.
FTDES added that the government did not respond to the recommendations of civil society regarding the proposed solutions to concretely and realistically activate these legal provisions.
The condemnation also included the slow action of the parliament, which ratifies and passes laws without exercising its oversight role of following up on the implementation of these laws, ensuring their application instead of becoming void measures.
FTDES recalled that this incident, which caused the injury of 13 workers, took place only a few days after a number of Tunisian CSOs, including Asswat Nisaa, FTDES, Women and Citizenship Association and the Voice of Hawa Association, launched the “Salma Taaish” campaign as a panic call on the one year anniversary of Law No. 51 of 2019 going into force.
This law is related to organizing transportation and launching a new class of transportation for workers in the agricultural sector.
In its press release, FTDES also affirmed that ‘Law No. 51 has been held hostage to the absence of political will, which has made it a false slogan which they use to laugh at the people and whose victims are this fragile fragment of the population from workers in the agricultural sector, whose reality remains bitter and tragic.
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