Main Justice Project - National Seminar on Tunisia

Paris, 8 - 9 September 2007

The seminar on the “Independence and impartiality of the Judiciary – Tunisia” is the last of the four national seminars programmed by the Justice Working Group under its 2006-2007project on “Promoting the “Independence and Impartiality of the Judiciary in the Euromed Region”. It follows similar events held in November 2006 in Casablanca, Morocco; January 2007 in Amman, Jordan; and March 2007 in Beirut, Lebanon.

The seminar on Tunisia is co-organised with the Tunisian members of the Justice Working Group, i.e. Comité pour le respect des libertés et des droits de l’Homme en Tunisie (CRLDHT) and Ligue tunisienne de défense des droits de l’Homme (LTDH), and with financial support of the European Union and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency; It will take place on 8 and 9 September 2007 in Paris. The exact location and the agenda of the seminar will be announced shortly. For further information on this event, please contact the Working Group coordinator by email at Fabrice Liébaut or by phone at +45 32 64 17 23.

Agenda of the seminar
List of participants - to be announced
Minutes of the seminar

Open letter of judge Mokhtar Yahyaoui dated 6 July 2001
Letter of support from French Senator Robert Bret (in French)
Letter of support from French Senator Alima Boumédiene-Thierry (in French)


Documents distributed to the participants:


The main conclusions of the report « Justice in the East and South of the Mediterranean Region » (EMHRN, 2005), a presentation by Sian Lewis-Anthony (in French)

« The independence and impartiality of the Tunisian judiciary », a presentation by Houcine Bardi (in French)

« The increasing role of women in the Tunisian judiciary : between women empowerment and political authoritarism » by Saana Ben Achour (to be published in L’Année du Maghreb 2007, CNRS-Éditions, November 2007) (in French)

« A dear and costly independence », text drafted by the legitimate bodies of the Association des magistrats tunisiens (in French)


Additional documents related to the seminar:

Press release