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<title>OneWorld Africa - Tunisia</title>
<description>Tunisia</description>
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<title>Tunisia is gearing up for an electronic tax filing system</title>
<link>http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/157180/1/</link>
<description>Tunisia has endeavoured, out of its conviction that a modern tax system is an essential conditions for the setting up of a modern economy integrated in its regional and international environment, to lay down the foundations of a fiscal system likely to meet the targets set by the country in all fields and the expectations of its economic partners.</description>
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<title>ITU's Report Pays Tribute To Tunisia For Progress Made In ICTs</title>
<link>http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/152203/1/</link>
<description>According to the 2007 report of the International Telecommunications' Union (ITU) related to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) which was released recently, Tunisia achieved a considerable progress in the field of information technologies.</description>
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<title>Target of State Picked to Head Global Rights Group</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/78130</link>
<description>The appointment of veteran Tunisian free expression champion Souhayr Belhassen as president of an influential global human rights group will send a message of support to embattled fellow activists back home, reports Rohan Jayasekera.</description>
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<title>Cuba, Egypt and Tunisia Picketed at Tourism Fair</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/77531</link>
<description>A small demonstration has been staged in front of the Cuban, Egyptian and Tunisian stands at a tourism trade fair in Paris in protest against press freedom violations. 
From Reporters without Borders</description>
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<title>New Roles for Women Leaders Worldwide</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76445</link>
<description>Nancy Pelosi isn't the only woman to have broken a long-standing &quot;marble ceiling&quot; recently. In Iran, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates women have been elected as well.</description>
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<title>Action against Tunisia demanded</title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/72367</link>
<description>The Tunisian authorities &quot;have once again demonstrated their complete disregard for freedom of expression&quot; by arresting and deporting a board member of International Amnesty Switzerland.</description>
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<title>Tunisia: International Federation of Journalists protests over ban of its website</title>
<link>http://www.oneworld.ca/link/gotolink/addhit/69881</link>
<description>&quot;The Tunisian authorities continue to show intolerance of independent opinion and free expression,&quot; said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary. &quot;But they are seriously mistaken if they think this will discourage journalists from expressing their solidarity with colleagues in Tunisia.&quot; In a letter to President Ben Ali, IFJ says that all obstacles on the use of Internet technology and access to information should be lifted, except where they are in line with international standards which may limit a</description>
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<title>Internet hegemony and the digital divide</title>
<link>http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/125363/1/</link>
<description>A squabble over who controls the internet had threatened to overshadow the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia. But a “compromise” deal was reached just before the meeting opened, under which America will retain its hegemony for the time being. This leaves delegates free to discuss bridging the digital divide between rich and poor countries.</description>
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<title>Tunisia: IFJ protests over ban of its website</title>
<link>http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/125274/1/</link>
<description>The International Federation of Journalists today protested to the Tunisian government over the banning of the Federation?s web site. In recent weeks, following the World Summit on the Information Society in November when the IFJ sharply criticised restrictions on Internet use and harassment of human rights activists, the IFJ web site has been unobtainable.</description>
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<title>Open letter to Kofi Annan over violation of rights at Tunis</title>
<link>http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/122944/1/</link>
<description>Civil Society organisations had earlier written to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan expressing serious concern about the suitability of Tunisia as a host country for the WSIS because of its poor huiman rights record. They have now asked him, again, to take follow up measures after serious attacks on human rights and the right to freedom of expression at the summit.</description>
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<title>Legitimacy of UN Summit questioned </title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/69149</link>
<description>The legitimacy of the World Summit On the Information Society had been put in question by the interference of the Tunisian authorities, and no UN-sponsored summit should ever again be held under such oppressive conditions, said a leading right group.</description>
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<title>WSIS: concluso il summit dell'informazione tra censura e compromessi </title>
<link>http://unimondo.oneworld.net/article/view/122564/1/</link>
<description>E' cominciato con atti di repressione verso i giornalisti e censura di siti internet da parte del governo tunisino e si č concluso senza alcun impegno finanziario dei Paesi ricchi per sostenere il &quot;Fondo di solidarietŕ digitale&quot; per ridurre il &quot;digital gap&quot;, il divario di accesso ad internet tra Nord e il Sud del pianeta.  
Nel mezzo, il “Summit mondiale della societŕ dell'informazione” (WSIS) dell'Onu, che si č tenuto a Tunisi dal 16 al 18 novembre, ha registrato un compromesso sulla gestione</description>
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<title>THE CLOSE OF WSIS: The civil society verdict</title>
<link>http://see.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/69134</link>
<description>On the afternoon of Friday, November 18, 2005, one of three stakeholders taking part in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) drew a line in the sand. Civil society (CS) representatives from all continents lined up on a panel to deliver a stark closing statement. At the same time, International Telecommunications Union UN-o-crats drew conclusions of their own a couple of hundred meters away in the plenary room.</description>
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<title>WSIS: dissidenza tunisina al Summit, niente impegni dai ricchi</title>
<link>http://unimondo.oneworld.net/article/view/122528/1/</link>
<description>L'eco delle iniziative della dissidenza tunisina č entrata anche al Vertice mondiale sulla societŕ dell'informazione (WSIS). Mentre si teneva una manifestazione promossa dal premio Nobel per la pace 2003, Shirin Ebadi, al centro di Tunisi in un edificio dove dal 18 di Ottobre otto persone sono in sciopero della fame, nella sala &quot;La Goulette&quot; nella sede del vertice ufficiale si teneva un forum sulle riforme delle istituzioni internazionali organizzato da Ubuntu e Cris dove diversi sono stati gli</description>
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<title>Zene u ruzicastom na WSIS II</title>
<link>http://ssla.oneworld.net/article/view/122510/1/</link>
<description>Prvi dan sam bila o&amp;#269;ajna traže&amp;#263;i žene po prostoru uz toliko nadmo&amp;#263;nu prisutnost muškaraca, posebno onih uniformiranih i naoružanih. No, kad sam malo pogledala uokolo, vidjela sam (osim participanata) pretežno žene u ruži&amp;#269;astom koje rade kao &amp;#269;ista&amp;#269;ice i hodaju okolo vuku&amp;#263;i vre&amp;#263;e sa sme&amp;#263;em.</description>
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