{"id":237484,"date":"2026-06-26T17:30:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-three-years-after-the-eu-tunisia-deal-review-eu-approach-toward-tunisias-human-rights-decline\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:30:55","slug":"tunisia-three-years-after-the-eu-tunisia-deal-review-eu-approach-toward-tunisias-human-rights-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-three-years-after-the-eu-tunisia-deal-review-eu-approach-toward-tunisias-human-rights-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Three Years After the EU-Tunisia Deal, Review EU Approach Toward Tunisia&#8217;s Human Rights Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><em>Joint CSO Letter<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\">Dear President von der Leyen,<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">We are writing to you three years after the signing of the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 16 July 2023, to encourage you to show principled leadership and initiate a reset of an EU approach that has failed to uphold human rights and freedom of the press principles in Tunisia and to reprioritize human rights in EU relations with the Tunisian government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"73\">Since the MoU&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606260235.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint CSO Letter Dear President von der Leyen, We are writing to you three years after the signing of the EU-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 16 July 2023, to encourage you to show principled leadership and initiate a reset of an EU approach that has failed to uphold human rights and freedom of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":237485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,10111,7012,14228,46096,3575,257,6399,5100,254,4703,653,6684,5114],"class_list":["post-237484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approach","tag-deal","tag-decline","tag-eutunisia","tag-human","tag-news","tag-review","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisias","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}