Wednesday 23 January 2019, 2.00-3.30pm, Human Rights seminar room, 5S.6.25

Identify and Citizenship in Tunisia: The Situation of Minorities after the 2011 Revolution.

Speaker: Silvia Quattrini

Chair: Dr. Andrew Fagan, Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex

This report, Identity and Citizenship in Tunisia: The Situation of Minorities after the 2011 Revolution, documents Tunisia’s achievements to date and also the significant rights gaps that many Tunisians, including its minority and indigenous populations, face. Drawing on interviews with community representatives and activists, as well as an extensive review of the available literature, legislation and media coverage, it explores the extent to which the Jasmine Revolution and the country’s subsequent democratic transition has benefitted and included its minorities.

Full press release ://minorityrights.org/publications/identity-and-citizenship-in-tunisia-the-situation-of-minorities-after-the-2011-revolution/

Silvia Quattrini is the Middle East and North Africa Programmes Coordinator at Minority Rights Group International (MRG). She joined MRG in 2014, working from Tunisia until 2017. Her areas of interest include minority rights, women’s rights, gender issues and cultural activism in the MENA region. She holds a Masters in Translation Studies (Arabic – English) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and is currently pursuing an LLM in International Human Rights Law at the University of Essex.

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