📋 Tender Overview
With financial support from the European Union, Tunisia is systematically undertaking anti-migrant and racially motivated operations, including “desert dumps” and unlawful arbitrary expulsions of migrants and refugees to remote areas near Libya and Algeria, according to recent reports.
Violence Against Migrants and Arrests of Human Rights Defenders
The growing number of reports revealing abuses suffered by migrants and refugees in Tunisia are spurring widespread indignation. A spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights recently expressed serious concerns over the increased targeting of migrants in Tunisia, particularly those coming from sub-Saharan Africa. The refugee agency denounced “a rise in the use of dehumanising and racist rhetoric against Black migrants and Black Tunisians” and “incidents of arbitrary arrest and detention of human rights defenders, lawyers and journalists critical of the Government, as well as its migration policies.”
