{"id":238830,"date":"2026-07-16T18:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-a-blueprint-for-complicity-three-years-on-eu-tunisia-deal-continues-to-fuel-human-rights-violations\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:17:22","slug":"tunisia-a-blueprint-for-complicity-three-years-on-eu-tunisia-deal-continues-to-fuel-human-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-a-blueprint-for-complicity-three-years-on-eu-tunisia-deal-continues-to-fuel-human-rights-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: &#8216;A Blueprint for Complicity&#8217; &#8211; Three Years On, EU-Tunisia Deal Continues to Fuel Human Rights Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>Joint Statement by 46 Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"83\">Three years since the signature of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_23_3887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Union (EU)-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)<\/a>, the agreement has not only failed to guarantee respect for refugees and migrants&#8217; rights, it has fueled and normalized serious human rights violations and undermined the EU&#8217;s leverage to address the deteriorating human rights environment in the country. We call on the European Commission and EU member states to immediately suspend&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607160313.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 Statement by 46 Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations Three years since the signature of the European Union (EU)-Tunisia Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the agreement has not only failed to guarantee respect for refugees and migrants&#8217; rights, it has fueled and normalized serious human rights violations and undermined the EU&#8217;s leverage to address the deteriorating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,34056,8395,5106,7012,46096,7570,3575,257,5100,254,4703,653,11974,5114],"class_list":["post-238830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blueprint","tag-complicity","tag-continues","tag-deal","tag-eutunisia","tag-fuel","tag-human","tag-news","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-violations","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238830","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=238830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}