Tunisia-FTDES: Women victims of physical and sexual violence

In its report on the state of individual freedoms in Tunisia, The Tunisian Forum of Economic and Social Rights (Ftde s) announced that throughout the month of January 2021, 53.7% of recorded violence was collective violence committed by both genders opposed to  45.3% for individual violence.

With a percentage of approximately 30% for the governorates of Ariana, Tunis and Ben Arous, the capital stands first among the most violent regions, followed by the governorate of Nabeul (with a rate of around 15%), next of the governorate of Kasserine (with approximately 13%), then the governorates of Monastir, Kairouan and Mahdia (with a rate of approximately 7% for each region).

Then come the governorates of Sousse, Sfax and Kébili with 5%, succeeded by the governorates of Bizerte, Kef and Sidi Bouzid with 2%. Moreover, during February 2021, women depicted 29.3% of all victims of violence, while men represented 65.9% of offenders. The report maintained that women journalists were hit in sensitive areas of their bodies, by individuals among the masses gathered by Ennahdha supporters, while they were covering the movement’s assembly on February 27. 2021. What was viewed by the Ftdes as a “dangerous precedent”, established in Tunisia for the first time, because no incidents of mass harassment in this way have been registered in the street before.