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October 10, 2019

IMF spending $93 billion bailing out reckless lenders, says Jubilee Debt Campaign

Research by the Jubilee Debt Campaign indicates a major breach by the IMF of its own policies, with $93 billion of lending to highly indebted countries without any debt restructurings.
April 8, 2019

Condemnation of Algeria's detention and expulsion of two Tunisian journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the detention and expulsion of two Tunisian journalists from Algeria and called on the Algerian authorities to allow the foreign press to freely cover demonstrations in the country.
July 25, 2018

Covenant for equality and individual freedoms published in Tunisia

The proposals aim to place human rights at the heart of the Tunisian justice system.
June 29, 2015

UN chief condemns terrorist attacks in Tunisia, Kuwait and France

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemning the terrorist attacks carried out se in Tunisia, Kuwait and France
April 9, 2013

Has the 'Arab Spring' sprung? Middle East podcast

In a new Middle East analysis podcast, Ekklesia associate and regional expert Dr Harry Hagopian talks to James Abbott from the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales about the status of what has been commonly described by commentators (and some protagonists) as the 'Arab Spring'.
December 15, 2012

Change and challenge across the Middle East and North Africa Region
September 29, 2012

Amnesty calls on Tunisia to drop indecency charge in 'police rape' case

Amnesty has called on the Tunisian authorities to drop indecency charges against a woman summoned to court after complaining that police officers raped her.
April 22, 2012

New Tunisian government urged to protect free expression

Amnesty International have said that a Tunisian prosecution against a television boss is “reminiscent of the Ben Ali era” and is a threat to freedom of expression.
June 10, 2011

The G8, corporate economics and the Arab Spring

The G8 summit of world leaders in France in May 2011 announced billions of dollars of 'aid' for the Arab Spring. Yet it was the G8 who armed and financed the dictators of Egypt and Tunisia, who have now been overthrown.
May 26, 2011

Western governments urged to cancel Egypt's 'unjust debts'

The Jubilee Debt Campaign has called for all of Egypt and Tunisia’s ‘unjust debts’ to be cancelled unconditionally, ahead of a G8 discussion on north Africa.

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