Commitment title:

Advocate for Women and LGBTIQ++ Rights

Commitment description:

Raise awareness regarding gender based violence (GBV) such as harassment, abuse, rape and gender norms, and the right to be in charge of one’s body such as access to safe abortion, through social media platforms, by producing sponsored videos, comic books and spots in Tunisian dialect to reach 3 million web surfers throughout 3 years.

Monitor hate speech concerning women and the LGBTIQ++ community and the normalization of violence in media to report to the authorities.

Advocate for the access to treatments for all and prevention methods of HIV/AIDS and STIs (Prep, Pep, female condoms, male condom, etc.)

Monitor infractions in hospitals concerning GBV, obstetric violence and discrimination against LGBTIQ++ and persons living with HIV. It mainly consists on having observers that detect infractions and on having surveys that evaluate the provided services.

Mode of engagement:
  • Programmatic action
    Advocate for Women and LGBTIQ++ Rights
Commitment to be actioned in: Tunisia
Submitted from: Tunisia
Submitted by
Y-PEER Tunisia
Thematic area
Address gender-based violence and the harmful practices of child, early and forced marriages and female genital mutilation
Commitment category

(5) (a) Zero sexual and gender-based violence and harmful practices, including zero child, early and forced marriage, as well as zero female genital mutilation; and (b) Elimination of all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, in order to realize all individuals’ full socio-economic potential.