ProudlyTunisian

Published on Your Middle East  and OpenDemocracy                    #WorldRefugeeDay   More than  2.8 million Syrians  have been forced to leave their country so far. The vast majority of them remaining in neighboring countries, such as Turkey (764,000), Lebanon (1,093,069) and Jordan (597,328), according to the UN Refugee Agency. They are often living in dire conditions because countries like Lebanon and Jordan are already under extreme economic and political strain. Few others went seeking refuge in Europe. However, Europe has only granted asylum to 89,000 people. Though  Europe is failing refugees from Syria  , Sweden is one of the few European countries to offer permanent residence to Syrians arriving at its borders. Salim Salamah, found refuge in Sweden after fleeing Syria to Lebanon. I met Salim few weeks ago in Malmo, the most densely populated are...

"à l'occasion  du 13 août, F ête  Nationale de la  Femme" Les tunisiennes ont impressionné le monde entier en se levant pour défendre leurs droits en tant que femmes et en tant qu'êtres humains. Epaules contre épaules elle se sont soulevées aux côtés des hommes afin de défendre leur nation pendant la révolution. Ceci dit, le mouvement des femmes tunisiennes remonte bien avant le 14 janvier 2011. Dès le début du 20e siècle les femmes tunisiennes ont joué un rôle déterminant dans l'obtention de l'indépendance de leur pays. Comme les hommes furent arrêtés et emprisonnées après le manifestations qui ont amené les français et leur protectorat à se retirer et à reconnaitre l'indépendance du pays le 20 mars 1956. Moins de 5 mois plus tard, le 13 aout 1956, le premier président de la Tunisie, Habib Bourguiba, faisait un discours où il citait un extrait du code civil défendant les droits des femmes. Le codex interdisait la polygamie et le ...

 If it was just me experiencing this, I would maybe not even talk about it since I'll consider it an exception but it strangely happened with many people complaining about the same thing and you might have experienced it as well. We are 15 bloggers for CIVICUS, who have been granted full bursaries to attend the World Assembly in Canada.  Some of us had their visas either rejected once and twice or not issued on time because of long and annoying procedures. I will talk in my name and take full responsibility of my words but I will meanwhile quote from my fellow bloggers. Prabin Rokaya , a young activist from Nepal, had his visa rejected twice." They told me I can't even appeal!! I had to reapply and again the same reasons were given ", he said. Three main reasons have been claimed by the Canadian Consulate in Nepal that I will cite then you decide if they were fair enough. First, they mentioned his strong ties in Canada though he doesn't have any friends or ...