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Tunisia: Court Rules That 81-Year-Old Can Drop Slave Name
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 16 October 2020
Many Black Tunisians say being marked out as descendants of slaves leads to discrimination Read more »
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Tunisia: Trabelsi 'Slave' Faces Former Masters
JusticeInfo.net, 16 July 2020
On 2 July, the specialized chamber in Tunis heard defendants in the case of Rachida Kouki, a housemaid who worked for the family of the nephew of Leila Trabelsi Ben Ali, the former… Read more »
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Tunisia: One Year On, Tunisia's #MeToo Movement Grapples With Race
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 14 October 2020
In Tunisia, Black women continue to face unequal job prospects and are often subjected to sexual harassment Read more »
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Tunisia: Tunisian Transitional Justice in Danger, Warns Civil Society
JusticeInfo.net, 5 October 2020
The new government's contested appointments and unclear positions on transitional justice have put this process at risk again, say civil society and victims who have been… Read more »
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Africa: Black Lives Matter but Slavery Isn't Our Only Narrative
The Conversation Africa, 13 September 2020
Our historical understanding of Blackness is most commonly shaped by the story of the Atlantic slave trade - the forced movement of Africans to the West, in particular to the… Read more »
Tunisian Court Allows 81-Year-Old To Drop Slave Name
The court has allowed Hamden Dali to remove a word that marked him out as descended from slaves from his name, in the country's first ruling of its kind, his lawyer said. Tunisia was one of the first countries to abolish slavery in 1846, but critics say it has not done enough to address racism against black Tunisians, who make up 10-15% of the population and are mostly descended from slaves. Dali's lawyer, Hanen Ben Hassena, has said the association with slavery is an assault on human dignity and the man's adult children had faced discrimination because of the family name, which had made it harder to get jobs.
