Between December 7th and 9th, 2023, International IDEA’s Tunis Office collaborated with the non-profit organization "The Model African Union" to organize a Model African Union event in Tunis, Tunisia. The event brought together 28 students from Tunisia and Sub-Saharan Africa, with a thematic focus on climate change and migration.
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On the 18th and 19th of March 2023, International IDEA's Tunis Office, organized a Moot Court Competition on the limitation clause of rights and freedoms in the Tunisian constitution and the principle of proportionality.
Since 2014, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance has been working with Tunisian institutions and civil society to promote the implementation of proportionality in the country.
Here are five events and trends from the last year that capture the most important developments in democracy and human rights across the continent.
The Mozambique Office of International IDEA facilitated on 14 and 15 October 2022 in the district of Matutuíne, Province of Maputo a two-day training and reflection session for the Parliamentary Committee on Public Service and Local Government on the new decentralisation architecture in Mozambique.
The recent postponement of the local polls in Karachi, Pakistan due to the extreme weather (Khan 2022) is an example of how natural hazards can affect an electoral process. To date, the floods have submerged a third of the country, destroying critical infrastructure and killed more than 1,000 people.
On July 25, exactly one year after Tunisia’s maverick President Kais Saied sacked the prime minister, dissolved the parliament, suspended the much-celebrated 2014 constitution and started to rule by decree, Tunisians voted to approve a draft constitution proposed by him that critics warn will
Members of Parliament from the Committees on Constitutional Affairs, Human Rights and Legality and on Public Administration and Local Government of the Mozambican Parliament jointly met over three days this past weekend to consider the Draft Law on Municipal Government, submitted to the Parliament by Government in 2021.
International IDEA has made women's participation one of its main axes in improving the inclusiveness of electoral processes in the Arab region.
International IDEA works to reduce the gap between women's rights as affirmed in the legal texts in the different Arab countries and the low rates of women in decision-making positions.
After a quarter of a century of democratic experience that followed another 25 years of a revolutionary process that put women’s emancipation at the centre of the revolutionary discourse, women in Mozambique still face social, economic and political exclusions that impact their participation and representation in politics in general and in electoral processes in particular, while constituting 51 per cent[1] of the population and 53 o
On the evening of 15 February 2022, reports emerged that key police and military officials in Djibouti were put under house arrest, reportedly amid fears of a coup d’état. This was the latest in the string of successful and attempted coups in Africa—from Mali to M
International IDEA recognises that Tunisia has made great progress towards establishing itself as a legitimate member of the international community of democratic nations since 2011. The respect for the Constitution and the rule of law are key democratic principles that all democratic nations must adhere to.
In view of ongoing and recent contestations between the president and prime minister, and president and legislature in Tunisia and in Sri Lanka, International IDEA’s Constitution-Building Programme organised a webinar on the ‘Value and Perils of Semi-Presidentialism in Transitional Contexts’ on 2 August 2021.
International IDEA, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia, held a virtual training session for young Tunisian diplomats on 8 June 2021. The training session was part of the Democracy for Diplomats training that the Institute has developed for its Members States.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Parliament of Mozambique and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) in Maputo, Mozambique, today.
The MoU is valid for 30 months and establishes the principles and areas of cooperation between the two institutions, namely, among others:
ADDIS ABABA— African countries are still far from achieving women's equal and effective participation in political decision-making. Women constitute only 24 per cent of the 12,113 parliamentarians in Africa, 25 per cent in the lower houses and 20 per cent in the upper houses of parliaments, according to the first Women's Political Participation: Africa Barometer 2021 published today.
Under the project “Working for a new era in protection of fundamental rights in Tunisia”, International IDEA organized a Moot Court Competition that centered around Article 49 of the Tunisian Constitution. This activity was the first of its kind, bringing together law faculties, students and leading practitioners from across the country to engage on cutting edge legal issues, including the application of the principle of proportionality.
ADDIS ABABA - The COVID-19 pandemic has regressed key aspects of democracy in Africa and the Middle East, including the disruption of electoral processes, restrictions on civil liberties like freedom of expression, and increasing persecution of opposition leaders and parties. The pandemic has hit the region at a time in which the significant advances of democracy in the last decades were coming to a halt.