STATEMENT
41th UPR Session of the Human Rights Council on the human rights situation in Tunisia, as delivered by Ambassador Tine Mørch Smith, Permanent Representative of Norway in Geneva.
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8 November 2022
President,
Norway urges Tunisia to ensure the separation of powers, as a basis for safeguarding fundamental freedoms and human rights. [Norway commends Tunisia on the adoption of Law No. 2019-51 on the elimination on violence against women.]
Norway recommends that Tunisia:
1) ensures in law and in practice the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression, in compliance with the ICCPR;
2) ends the use of military courts to try civilians;
3) accedes to the Istanbul Convention and ensures the effective implementation of the relevant legislation;
4) implements its obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention, and ratifies ILO Convention No. 97 on Migration for Employment and ILO Convention No. 143 on Migrant Workers;
5) ratifies the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR on the abolition of the death penalty.
Thank you.