Tunisia
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Our concerns
- Violations of fundamental rights and procedural guarantees under anti-terrorism legislation and the state of emergency decree;
- Persistent practice of torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment;
- Undue restrictions on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association under the state of emergency.
Human Rights Instruments
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
ICCPR Ratified ?
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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 ?
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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 ?
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UNCAT Ratification Date
OPCAT (National Preventive Mechanism) Ratified ?
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OP UNCAT Date
National Preventive Mechanism (OPCAT) created ?
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UNCAT Art 20 (confidential inquiries) ratified ?
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UNCAT Art 22 (Individual Complaint procedure) Ratified ?
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Date of last Concluding Observations by Committee against Torture (CAT)
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED)
ICPPED Ratified ?
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ICPPED Ratification Date
ICPPED Art 31 (Individual communications) ratified ?
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ICPPED Art 33 (Inquiry procedure ) ratified ?
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Date last Concluding Observations by Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED)
2016-05-24
Human Rights Council
Date last Universal Period Review (UPR)
Membership of Human Rights Council:
Term expires in 2019
National Human Rights Institution
Accreditation with the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)
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