Tunisia: Review EU Approach Toward Tunisia's Human Rights Decline

CPJ, partners call on EU to review approach toward Tunisia amid critical human rights decline

On Friday, the Committee to Protect Journalists and five other press freedom and human rights organizations sent a joint letter to the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen calling for an immediate change in the EU’s approach toward Tunisia due to a severe human rights decline.  The signatories urged von der Leyen to condemn...

Tunisia: Review EU Approach Toward Tunisia's Human Rights Decline

Document - Joint CSO Letter

Three Years After the EU-Tunisia Deal, Review EU Approach Toward Tunisia's Human Rights Decline

We are writing to you three years after the signing of the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 16 July 2023, to encourage you to show principled leadership and initiate a reset of an EU approach that has failed to uphold human rights and freedom of the press principles in Tunisia and to reprioritize human rights in EU relations with the Tunisian government.