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Despite the remarkable evolution of human civilization and the extent of technical and scientific inventions; human rights remained the Achilles heel of a human society which recognises democracy as a mode of rational government. Human rights are often forgotten or neglected in the relations between states.
For many, if human rights are now the subject of political speculation, women’s rights and their observance and their violation has now acquired the status of a universal criterion by which could to measure the evolution of human society.
We Tunisian liberals, we have always believed that crimes against humanity and violations are the logical result of complacency by those who adopt humanitarian slogans for demagogic use, often attached to a election issue.
The awarding of the Prize for Freedom by Liberal International to Shirin Ebadi is a tangible proof of the inseparable nature between liberalism and modernity. This civil woman is the juridiquo-political synthesis of modernity.
The universal aspect of human rights leads us to reject the arguments of cultural specificity. No argument can waive these inalienable rights.
What young girls are forced to suffer in Pakistan, India, and Sudan … (to mention only a few regimes in the world) is simply unacceptable from the point of human dignity.
The forced marriage of under age girls, female circumcision, and organized rape, ignoring for a secong, issues such as female illiteracy and violence perpetrated against women, cause us to invoke the forces of civil society to conduct a global compaign on several fronts to stop this practice and to ensure that women regain their rights to dignity and freedom.
Several countries in which the rights of women have evolved, such as Tunisia, have found themselves today threatened by clear regression of social consciousness and the negative return of fundamentalism!
This phenomenon is reflected by increased graduate unemployment and the crisis of secular democracy.
This will, without recalling that the fundamentalist movement has the appearance of an international organization amplified by support from several states and has sources of funding likely to be significant.
Rawdha Seibi, Social Liberal Party, Vice-President INLW