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The women’s rights champion. Tunisia’s potential for furthering women’s rights.
CMI Report | Oct 2016
The women’s rights champion. Tunisia’s potential for furthering women’s rights. Mari Norbakk CMI Rep
women's rights, Tunisia
The right to abortion in Tunisia after the revolution of 2011: Legal, medical and social arrangements seen through seven abortion stories
Journal Article | Dec 2019
In this article, we explore the effects that Tunisia’s post-revolutionary democratization process has had on the right to abortion, drawing on ethnographic ...
Tunisia
"The educated way of thinking". Individualisation and Islamism in Tunisia
CMI Report | Jan 1993
"The educated way of thinking". Individualisation and Islamism in Tunisia Marit Tjomsland CMI Repor
"The educated way of thinking: Individualisation and islamism in Tunisia"
Book Chapter | Jan 1994
"The educated way of thinking: Individualisation and islamism in Tunisia" Marit Tjomsland State and
Negotiating the "in-between". Modernizing practices and identities in post-colonial Tunisia
CMI Report | Jan 1992
The study focuses on the Tunisian post-colonial process of modernization and its effects on Tunisians of different generations, gender, and educational ...
Modernization, Gender relations, Tunisia
The way ahead for Tunisia
Event | 23 Oct 2015
Is Tunisia delivering on the promise of the Arab Spring by producing a real democracy?
Tunisia
Islamic resurgence as response to
Project | Jan 1996 - Dec 1999
The project focuses on the strong resurgence of Islamic ideas in Tunisia during the 1980s and the apparently equally strong movement away from such ideas ...
Tunisias uavklarte overgang?
News | 11 Dec 2015
Den Tunisiske kvartetten for Nasjonal Dialog fikk Nobels fredspris for sitt demokratiseringsarbeid etter den arabiske våren. Ikke minst utmerket de seg gjennom bidraget med å få i havn landets nye grunnlov, som har vært nær ved å strande flere ganger. Kvartetten for Nasjonal Dialog har uten tvil spilt en viktig rolle i arbeidet med den nye grunnloven. Men har de mest av alt bidratt til å forflytte problemet til domstolene? Mye tyder på at tunisierne enda har de tøffeste debattene foran seg.
Tunisia
Why did the Tunisian dialogue quartet win the Nobel peace prize?
News | 9 Dec 2015
As the Tunisian dialogue quartet was awarded the Nobel peace prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee hailed the Tunisian quartet's essential role in advancing peaceful democratic developments. To make further advances, the Tunisian people must regain their sense of participation and significance in the process. If this happens, the Nobel peace prize can make an actual contribution to safeguard democracy in Tunisia.
The Limits of Law: Abortion in the Middle East and Northern Africa
Journal Article | Dec 2019
The Limits of Law: Abortion in the Middle East and Northern Africa Irene Maffi and Liv Tønnessen Hea
Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Turkey and Tunisia
The balancing act of moderate Islamist politics in Tunisia
News | 12 May 2015
Discussions over the role Islam should play in public life, are raging in Tunisia. A veiled Tunisair flight attendant caused uproar in the Tunisian Parliament recently, writes researcher Mari Norbakk from fieldwork in Tunis.
Tunisia
Women's Human Rights and Law Reform in the Muslim World
Project | Mar 2014 - Jun 2017
This project seeks to map family and criminal law reforms in the period 1995-2015 in Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia ...
Pakistan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Yemen, Iran, Lebanon
Gendering the "Arab Spring"
Event | 31 May 2013
During the last couple of years there has been a series of seminar on the events related to the "Arab spring" in Yemen, Syria, Tunisia and Egypt ...
Marriage is Politics: Prospects for Women's Equality after the Arab Spring
CMI Insight | Apr 2013
Hopes were high that the uprisings that began in 2011 across the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) that have come to be known as “the Arab ...
Egypt, Tunisia
Prosecutions, Politics and Transitions How criminal justice in the Arab Spring is shaping transitional justice
Event | 6 May 2014
This panel will address the question of the prosecution of political leaders in the Arab region, with a focus on four countries whose leaders were ousted during the Arab Spring uprisings: Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen.
The accumulation of unexplained wealth by public officials: Making the offence of illicit enrichment enforceable
U4 Brief | Jan 2012
Recent high-profile cases have focused attention on the transfer of assets abroad by heads of state and other senior officials from developing countries ...
international drivers of corruption, asset recovery, repatriation of stolen funds, international cooperation, mutual legal assistance, illicit enrichment, UNCAC, Tunisia, Egypt
Kvartettens halve seier
Newspaper Op-Ed | Oct 2015
Årets fredsprisvinner, den Tunisiske kvartetten for Nasjonal Dialog har fått prisen for sitt demokratiseringsarbeid etter den arabiske våren. ...
Tunisia, fredspris 2015, kvinners rettigheter, komplimentaritet, islam
Maffi Irene
Associated Senior Researcher
Social anthropologist focusing on political anthropology and reproduction.
Political determinants of sexual and reproductive health: Criminalisation, health impacts and game changers
Project | Mar 2016 - Dec 2021
Development actors have increasingly recognised the importance of the political determinants of health. One way in which politics and power dynamics impact ...
Abortion, homosexuality, criminal law, health policy, mental health, political determinants, Uganda, Malawi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Zambia, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia
Islam har skylden?
Newspaper Op-Ed | Jan 2006
Det demokratiske underskuddet i Midt-Østen og Nord-Afrika er slående. Mange vil hevde at «islam har skylden», da islam i litteraturen ...