Outcome Report >> Tunisia, Comment, 27th Session May 2017

Source of Reference
State under Review
Recommendation
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies called for (...) the enactment of legislation to protect women’s rights.
Reference type

Implementations

  • National Report
    Para 142) The Act abrogates article 227 and article 227 bis of the Criminal Code and rescinds all its procedural consequences such as dropping charges or causing an offender to marry his victim in cases involving consensual sexual intercourse with a minor.  
    Stakeholder Summary
    Para 50) Despite the progress made in the legal system (such as the adoption of Organic Act 2017-58 combating violence against women, which removed the impunity of perpetrators of sexual violence through marriage with the victim, as recommended during the previous universal periodic review), CSDHLF and JS7 condemned the fact that discrimination and violations persist and have worsened since the COVID-19 pandemic,
Response