أرشيف الوسم : Tunisia

Reporters Without Borders released the annual World Press Freedom Index, which ranks 180 countries performance according to criteria including media independence, legislative framework and the level of censorship prevailing in the country, and the infrastructure environment in which the media operate. The index highlights the worldwide deterioration in freedom of information in 2014 because of wars, the growing non-state actors …

The new Tunisian parliament on Tuesday held its inaugural session, a landmark event in the nation’s transition to democracy after the 2011 revolution in the country that fuelled the region’s Arab Spring. After singing the national anthem, the National Constituent Assembly’s (NCA) speaker Mustapha Ben Jaafar opened the parliament of 217 members elected in October. “Tunisia has managed to secure …

Tunisia will hold its first multi-candidate presidential election this coming Sunday, with twenty-seven candidates in the running for President. Former premier 87-year-old Beji Caid Essebsi, whose Nidaa Tounes party won the October 26 parliamentary election, is the favorite to win the poll. His challengers include outgoing President Moncef Marzouki, left-wing politician Hamma Hammami, businessman Slim Riahi, magistrate Kalthoum Kannou, the …

Advocacy group Human Rights Watch on Tuesday said that Islamic State (IS) extremists had tortured teenagers from Syrian town of Kobane for six months in captivity. According to the rights group, 153 school-going children were kidnapped by the IS in May while they were returning to Kobane after sitting for exams in Aleppo; it released 25 of the hostages late …

TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – July 22, 2014) – Despite the promise of the Arab Spring, most nations in the region have failed to reform their economies, largely leaving elite privilege in place, finds a new essay released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank. The essay,Institutions and Economic, Political, and Civil Liberty in the Arab World, …

قال رئيس الوزراء البريطاني الأسبق ، توني بلير ، إن على القادة الغربيين وضع الخلافات مع روسيا في الشأن الأوكراني جانبا حتي يتمكنوا من التركيز على الخطر المتنامي للإرهاب الإسلامي. في خطابه يوم الأربعاء قال مبعوث الشرق الأوسط إن تنامي الفكر المتطرف في المنطقة إلى جانب كل من أفغانستان وشمال أفريقيا وباكستان “يمثل أكبر تهديد للأمن العالمي في القرن الحادي …

أصدر المنتدى الاقتصادي العالمي أحدث تقرير له “مؤشر التنافسية العالمية ” و هو  تقرير سنوي  يرتب الدول وفقا لمدى قدرتهم على  استخدام الموارد المتاحة لهم بطريقة فعالة ومنتجة .  كما يقيس نسبة ثأثير المؤسسات والسياسات والعوامل في بلد ما على الازدهار الاقتصادي في المستويات الحالية والمتوسطة الأجل. ويصنف التقرير الدول وفقا لمجموعة من البيانات التي تم جمعها  في اثنتي عشرة …