*The New York Times Reports on Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission*

*"Tunisia has embarked on a bold and painful experiment, gathering
testimony from victims of six decades of abuses under two dictatorships
before its revolution four years ago led to a still-fledgling democracy.
Already, thousands have arrived to lodge complaints at the country’s Truth
and Dignity Commission, which is scheduled to begin public hearings in June
with the goal of exposing the violations, making reparations and holding
the abusers accountable in a search for national reconciliation.*

*Women were tortured as brutally as men were. But they suffered an added
stigma — that of rape and sexual assault. Such abuse was used as a
systematic and institutionalized form of torture, often directed at women
for no reason other than that they were married or related to a member of
the opposition." —Carlotta Gall, The New York Times, http://nyti.ms/1FQcQ9L
<http://nyti.ms/1FQcQ9L>*

Hajer Ben Nasr's documentary* TUNISIAN WOMEN: WE WILL STAND UP* features
interviews with seven women activists who for decades denounced the
brutality of both the Bourguiba's and Ben Ali's regimes:

   - Journalist and human rights activist Om Zied
   - Political leader Maya Jribi
   - Human rights lawyer Radhia Nasraoui
   - Professor and writer Zeineb Cherni
   - Lawyer and community activist Saida Garrach
   - Singer Amel Hamrouni
   - President of the Association of Mothers of Victims of the
   Counterterrorism Law, Zeineb Chelbi

Winner of the Grand Prix at the Khouribga International Documentary Film
Festival in Morocco, *TUNISIAN WOMEN* is a powerful record of the work of
women activist in Tunisia and a celebration of Tunisia's extraordinary
history of activism and resistance against authoritarian rule since the
1970s.

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VIEW TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsROY0-Ydp0

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