Alkarama launches its 2016 Annual Report.
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Tunisia
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Alkarama Person of contact for country
Radidja Nemar, Email : r.nemar - at - alkarama -dot- org , Twitter : @RadidjaN
Our concerns
- Systematic practice of torture in custody
- Violations of procedural guarantees, unfair trials and arbitrary detention;
- Impunity reinforced by the lack of independence of the judiciary;
- Systematic human rights violations under the pretext of the fight against terrorism;
- Repeated attacks on freedom of expression.
Human Rights Instruments
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
ICCPR Ratified ?
✔
ICCPR Ratification Date
Individual Complaint procedure with the Human Rights committee (ICCPR Optional protocol 1) Ratified ?
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Date of Ratification of ICCPR Optional protocol 1
Second Optional Protocol of ICCPR (abolition of death penalty) ratified ?
✖
Date last Concluding Observations by Human Rights Committee
OVERDUE - State party did not submit report on time
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (UNCAT)
UNCAT Ratified ?
✔
UNCAT Ratification Date
OPCAT (National Preventive Mechanism) Ratified ?
✔
OP UNCAT Date
National Preventive Mechanism (OPCAT) created ?
✖
UNCAT Art 20 (confidential inquiries) ratified ?
✔
UNCAT Art 22 (Individual Complaint procedure) Ratified ?
✔
Date of last Concluding Observations by Committee against Torture (CAT)
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED)
ICPPED Ratified ?
✔
ICPPED Ratification Date
ICPPED Art 31 (Individual communications) ratified ?
✖
ICPPED Art 33 (Inquiry procedure ) ratified ?
✔
Date last Concluding Observations by Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
2016-05-25
Human Rights Council
Date last Universal Period Review (UPR)
Membership of Human Rights Council:
2007
National Human Rights Institution
Accreditation with the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)
B
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