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Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet (Arabic: الرباعي التونسي للحوار الوطني‎, French: ''Quartet du dialogue national'') is a group of four civil society organizations that were central mediators in the effort to conso ...

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online

Hassib Ben Ammar Hassib Ben Ammar ( ar, حسيب بن عمار) (11 April 1924 – 15 December 2008) was a leading Tunisian politician and journalist/editor. He was a powerful campaigner for human rights. Life Politician As a young man he participated actively ...

was an early organizer who later received a

United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights The United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were instituted by United Nations General Assembly in 1966. They are intended to "honour and commend people and organizations which have made an outstanding contribution to the promotion and pr ...

. Saâdeddine Zmerli was the first president and a longtime officer from the beginning of the organization till the year 2000.Who's who : Saâdeddine Zmerli. ''Leaders'', Dec. 2008.
online at leaders.com

Mohamed Charfi Mohamed Charfi (11 October 1936 – 6 June 2008) was a Tunisia, Tunisian academic and politician who served as Ministry of Education (Tunisia), Minister of Education of Tunisia from 1989 to 1994. Early life Charfi was born in Sfax, Tunisia, on ...

is also a cofounder. LDTH had about 1,000 members in 1982 and 3,000 in 1985, partly because it had taken stands against the death penalty and the release from prison of Islamists who had been "imprisoned for acts of conscience." "Four of its leaders, including two of its founders and its first two presidents" were made ministers in the 1987 Tunisian government. The National Dialogue Quartet, comprising the Tunisian Human Rights League, the

Tunisian General Labour Union The Tunisian General Labour Union (french: Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail, ''UGTT''. ar, الاتحاد العام التونسي للشغل) is a national trade union center in Tunisia. It has a membership of more than one million and wa ...

, the

Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts ar, الاتحاد التونسي للصناعة والتجارة والصناعات التقليدية , native_name_lang = , named_after = , image = Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts logo.gif ...

and the

Tunisian Order of Lawyers french: Ordre National des Avocats de Tunisie , native_name_lang = , named_after = , image = Tunisian Order of Lawyers logo.png , image_size = , alt = Logo of the Tunisian Order of Lawyers , ...

, was announced as the laureate of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize "for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic

democracy Democracy (From grc, δημοκρατία, dēmokratía, ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation (" direct democracy"), or to choose gov ...

in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011."

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{{Authority control Human rights in Tunisia Organizations established in 1977 Civil rights organizations

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