The Tunisian Football Federation is the governing body of football in Tunisia. It established on 29 March 1957. It became a member in the FIFA in 1960,and in the same year it also became a member of CAF association. The federation also joined the UAFA in 1976 and the UNAF in 2005.
Since the December 2010 revolution in Tunisia and protests across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) began,Tunisian women have played an unprecedented part in the protests. Habib Bourguiba began instituting secular freedoms for women in 1956,such as access to higher education,the right to file for divorce,and certain job opportunities. Women in Tunisia enjoy certain freedoms and rights that are denied to women in neighboring countries,although the social norms have shifted since 2011.
Mezri Haddad is a Tunisian journalist,writer,philosopher and diplomat. Haddad was a doctor of moral and political philosophy at the Paris-Sorbonne University,and the first Muslim candidate to be qualified by the National Council of French universities as a lecturer in Catholic theology. He is the author of several essays that focus on politics and religion.
Wided Bouchamaoui,also transcribed Ouided Bouchamaoui,is a Tunisian businesswoman who since 2011 has been leader of the Tunisian Confederation of Industry,Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA). As leader of the organization she took from 2013 part in Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet which led the latter organization to receive the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize. The French news magazine Jeune Afrique has identified her as one of the Top 25 Business Women in Africa. In 2014 she won the Oslo Business for Peace Award for her work in UTICA.
Bineta Diop is a Senegalese women's rights activist. She is the founder of Femmes Africa Solidarité,a non-profit organization which promotes women's rights in Africa.
Ahlem Belhadj was a Tunisian psychiatrist and women's rights campaigner. Serving at various times as president,chair,and director of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women (ATFD),Belhadj campaigned for better treatment of women in Tunisia. She successfully fought for the right of women and children to apply for passports without permission of their husband or father. Belhadj led a march of thousands of women against President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali during the 2011 Tunisian Revolution. She was the 2012 winner of the Simone de Beauvoir Prize and placed 18th on Foreign Policy's 2012 list of global thinkers.
Sana Ben Achour is a Tunisian academic,lawyer and activist,and a specialist in public law. She is a professor of public law at the Faculty of Legal,Political and Social Sciences at the University of Carthage. She is active in several feminist organisations,and has founded a women's refuge shelter.
The Tunisian Association of Democratic Women is a Tunisian feminist association which was founded in 1989.
Bochra Belhaj Hmida,is f a lawyer,politician and activist from Zaghouan Tunisia.
Sophie Bessis is a Tunisian-born French historian,journalist,researcher,and feminist author. She has written numerous works in French,Spanish,and English on development in the Maghreb and the Arab world,as well as the situation of women denouncing the identity imprisonment to which they are subjected. She is the recipient of the Paris Liège literary prize and was honored as Commandeur of the Order of the Republic.
Zakia Dhifaoui is a Tunisian teacher,journalist,and human rights activist who fought against the regime of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali before the Tunisian revolution of 2011.
Mounir Baatour is a Tunisian lawyer and LGBT activist. He is the founder of the LGBT organisation Association Shams,leader of the Tunisian Liberal Party,and was the first openly gay presidential candidate in the Arab world.
Najma Kousri is a Tunisian feminist and LGBT-rights activist. Kousri is a co-founder of the #EnaZeda movement and a co-ordinator of the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women. She is a campaigner for LGBT rights and her photographic project documenting the lives of same-sex couples went viral in 2017.
The Tunisian Association for the Support of Minorities or ATSM is a Tunisian Non-governmental organization fighting for minority rights,targeting antisemitism in particular.
Chouf Minorities,also known as Chouf,is a Tunisian non-governmental organization that advocates for the personal rights of Tunisian people who identify as women and of the LBT community in general.
Abir Moussi is a Tunisian lawyer and politician. She has been the president of the Free Destourian Party since 2016 and a member of Parliament since 2019. Abir Moussi is considered one of the most important and famous Tunisian politicians who defend the civil state and Bourguiba's approach. She is also known for her absolute rejection of political Islam movements and all forms of confusion between religion and politics. On October 3,2023,Abir Moussi was arrested in front of the presidential palace of Carthage,in a series of political arrests and crackdown on the opposition launched by Tunisian president Kais Saied.
Hadja Idrissa Bah,also Hadja Idy is a child's rights and women's rights activist from Guinea,who was elected President of the Guinean Children's Parliament in 2016. She has advised President Emmanuel Macron on women's issues.
Khemais Chammari was a Tunisian human rights activist,diplomat,and politician of the Movement of Socialist Democrats (MDS). He was sentenced to prison many times by the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
The Constitution of the Republic of Tunisia 2022,or the Third Republic Constitution,is the current constitution of Tunisia that was adopted in Tunisia on 25 July 2022 after the voters approved the constitutional referendum that was held on the same day.
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