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Tunisia

Regional group:

African Group (AG)

Council member:

2006-2007

2007-2008

2008-2009

2009-2010

2010-2011

2011-2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

Council Bureau membership:	–
Coordinator of regional group:	1 (2017)
Voluntary financial contribution to OHCHR (2023) :

Other HRC positions:	–
OHCHR presence:	Country Office
NHRI accreditation status:	B

National Mechanisms for Implementation, Reporting, and Follow-up (NMIRF): Standing - Inter-Ministerial

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

Human rights, democracy and the rule of law; The safety of journalists; The promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet; Civil society space; Human rights and preventing and countering violent extremism; Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic; Protection of the family; Youth and human rights; Promoting and protecting the human rights of women and girls in conflict and post-conflict situations on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000); Civil society space: COVID-19: the road to recovery and the essential role of civil society; Human rights implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people.

Voting record

After it became a member of the Council in 2006, Tunisia either joined consensus on, or voted in favour of, all resolutions dealing with country-specific situations. It also joined consensus on capacity-building resolutions. For thematic resolutions dealing with civil and political rights, Tunisia has generally joined consensus. When there has been a vote, it has always voted in favour. For thematic resolutions dealing with economic, social and cultural rights, Tunisia has either joined consensus on, or has voted in favour of, nearly all adopted texts (with the exception of a 2007 vote on a resolution on unilateral coercive measures, when Tunisia did not vote).

HRC participation

During HRC general discussions, panel debates and interactive dialogues with the Special Procedures, during the past three years, either as an HRC member or not, the State has joined:

262

Regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 78

241

Subregional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 50

139

Political group
statements

Average of statements for all countries: 109

121

Cross-regional
group statements

Average of statements for all countries: 96

Other joint
statements

Average of statements for all countries: 5

HRC member empty chair?

Overall, as a HRC member, has participated in more than 10% of panel discussions, general debates and interactive dialogues.

Cooperation with international human rights system

Special Procedures

Standing invitation

Communications responded to / received

Visits requests status

Completed
Invitation sent by the State not (yet) accepted by the SP
Accepted / date set
Visit request by the SP and not (yet) accepted by the State
Postponed / cancelled

Longest visit request not (yet) accepted by the State >
SR on hosuing, 2017

Treaty Bodies

Ratified

Reporting Status

Ratification status
Party Not Party
Individual complaint procedure accepted.
Reporting status

Submitted on time
Submitted late
Not applicable

On schedule
Overdue (outstanding)

CAT

ICCPR

CED

CEDAW

CERD

ICESCR

CRC

CRPD

Most overdue report

CAT
3.5 Years

OP-CAT

Ratified

NPM established

Received Sub-Committee visit

Universal Periodic Review

Reported

(2008, 2012, 2017)

Mid-term report

2nd cycle

Level of delegation

Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 24 / 192

2^nd cycle: 92 / 192

Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Cited in the Secretary General’s reports on 'alleged reprisals for cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights' (2010-2023)?

YES

Response to allegations from government concerned?
NO

Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments

Specific voluntary pledges: 0

Tunisia presented voluntary pledged and commitments in support of its candidacy for membership of the Council for the period 2017-2019 on 16 June 2016.

Tunisia pledged to, inter alia: maintain open dialogue and constructive cooperation with the members and non-members of the Council; pay particular attention to the fundamental rights of people in the most vulnerable groups; support the UPR as a mechanism; continue to contribute to the normative efforts of the Council including those sponsoring draft resolutions on civil society space (with Ireland), freedom of expression on the Internet (with Sweden) and the protection of journalists (with Austria); continue its tradition of co-sponsoring resolutions on human rights defenders; reprisals; the right to engage in peaceful demonstrations; torture; business and human rights; the right to development; violence against women; racism; and the rights of persons of African descent; continue supporting the special procedures of the Council, the OHCHR; the International Criminal Court and the treaty body strengthening process.

An analysis of Tunisia’s pledges shows that, although it has continued to support all the initiatives mentioned, it was not a co-sponsor of the 2018-resolution on torture, sponsored by Denmark.

Tunisia did not make a voluntary financial contribution to the OHCHR in 2018, but it is host of an OHCHR country office. Tunisia participated in the UPR at a high political level (ministerial level), and its participation in other States’ reviewed almost quadrupled from the first to the second cycle.

Tunisia

African Group (AG)

Engagement with the HRC

Principal sponsorship of HRC resolutions

Voting record

HRC participation

HRC member empty chair?

Cooperation with international human rights system

Special Procedures

Standing invitation

Communications responded to / received

Visits requests status

Treaty Bodies

Ratified

Reporting Status

Universal Periodic Review

Participation in other reviews 1st cycle: 24 / 192

2nd cycle: 92 / 192

Cooperation with the UN, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Fulfilment of past voluntary pledges & commitments

Specific voluntary pledges: 0

Participation in other reviews
1^st cycle: 24 / 192

2^nd cycle: 92 / 192