Full Coverage: Tunisia

24.01.2008 Tunisia has endeavoured, out of its conviction that a modern tax system is an essential conditions for the setting up of a modern economy integrated in its regional and international environment, to lay down the foundations of a fiscal system likely to meet the targets set by the country in all fields and the expectations of its economic partners.

13.08.2007 According to the 2007 report of the International Telecommunications' Union (ITU) related to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) which was released recently, Tunisia achieved a considerable progress in the field of information technologies.

01.05.2007 The appointment of veteran Tunisian free expression champion Souhayr Belhassen as president of an influential global human rights group will send a message of support to embattled fellow activists back home, reports Rohan Jayasekera.

16.03.2007 A small demonstration has been staged in front of the Cuban, Egyptian and Tunisian stands at a tourism trade fair in Paris in protest against press freedom violations.
From Reporters without Borders

05.01.2007 Nancy Pelosi isn't the only woman to have broken a long-standing "marble ceiling" recently. In Iran, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates women have been elected as well.

24.05.2006 The Tunisian authorities "have once again demonstrated their complete disregard for freedom of expression" by arresting and deporting a board member of International Amnesty Switzerland.

10.01.2006 A squabble over who controls the internet had threatened to overshadow the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia. But a “compromise” deal was reached just before the meeting opened, under which America will retain its hegemony for the time being. This leaves delegates free to discuss bridging the digital divide between rich and poor countries.

09.01.2006 The International Federation of Journalists today protested to the Tunisian government over the banning of the Federation?s web site. In recent weeks, following the World Summit on the Information Society in November when the IFJ sharply criticised restrictions on Internet use and harassment of human rights activists, the IFJ web site has been unobtainable.

28.11.2005 Civil Society organisations had earlier written to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan expressing serious concern about the suitability of Tunisia as a host country for the WSIS because of its poor huiman rights record. They have now asked him, again, to take follow up measures after serious attacks on human rights and the right to freedom of expression at the summit.

21.11.2005 The legitimacy of the World Summit On the Information Society had been put in question by the interference of the Tunisian authorities, and no UN-sponsored summit should ever again be held under such oppressive conditions, said a leading right group.

20.11.2005 On the afternoon of Friday, November 18, 2005, one of three stakeholders taking part in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) drew a line in the sand. Civil society (CS) representatives from all continents lined up on a panel to deliver a stark closing statement. At the same time, International Telecommunications Union UN-o-crats drew conclusions of their own a couple of hundred meters away in the plenary room.

18.11.2005 "I guess, once again, the “All” in ICTs for all seems to be selective in its application", writes Jac sm Kee, the regular contributor to the APC WSIS blog.

18.11.2005 Swiss Communications Minister Moritz Leuenberger denies a rupture with Tunisia over his government's controversial stand on the host government's treatment of journalists and human rights activists before the UN World Summit on the Information Society.

18.11.2005 APC vi go pretstavuva Taurai Maduna, informaticar od nevladina organizacija od Zimbabve, Kubatana i ucesnik na WSIS.
Maduna e ucesnik na rabotilnicata koja ja organizira HIVOS, nerecena "Izrazuvanje pod reprasija", koja se odrza deneska. Kako sto izjavuva, nego ne go interesira sto imaat da kazat vladite prisutni na WSIS, koi idat i nametnuivaat uslovi za koi ne moza da se pregovara, tuku go interesiraat ucesnicite od gragjanskite organizascii od cel svet i razmenata na idei.

18.11.2005 Taurai Maduna is an information officer with the Zimbabwean NGO online community Kubatana, and we met up with him in the middle of the exposition centre of the Kram, Tunis. APC's Karel Novotny reports from Tunis.

18.11.2005 Digital Opportunity Channel familiarisation and community engagement programme was hosted at the BCO Souk in the WSIS II, Tunis reports Atanu Garai from Tunis.

18.11.2005 Latha Gauri, a video reporter from Kothlapur village, Andhra Pradesh India, was the second grassroots knowledge worker to take the voices and concerns of the grassroots communities across the world, to the international policy platform at WSIS II at Tunis on November 17, 2005.

18.11.2005 A High-Level Round Table on “Shaping the Future through Knowledge”, the second of three events organised by UNESCO at the Tunis meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society, is taking place today.

18.11.2005 The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, José Antonio Ocampo, launched the Global Centre for ICT in Parliament, an alliance of national and regional assemblies, bilateral and multilateral agencies, international organisations, media, corporations and civil society.

18.11.2005 Now that water has been poured over the 'burning issue' of who controls the internet - with yesterday's agreement to set up a new Internet Governance Forum, the focus in Tunis has switched to tackling poverty.