Social / CSR in Tunisia
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BAHRAIN, 2015/04/25
Confidence part Arab youth that the Arab Spring would bring positive change across the region is declining and as a result they are uncertain whether democracy could ever work in the Middle East. This is the headline finding of the 7th Annual ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey released today.
- Arab youth see the rise of ISIS as the biggest obstacle facing the region
- Youth are keen to start their own business as concerns about unemployment continue
- The UAE remains the majority popular country to live in and emulate and Saudi Arabia is viewed as the region’s biggest ally
- A lot of view the Arabic language as central to their identity but believe it is losing its price to English
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AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20
The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
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TUNISIA, 2014/08/31
Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou spoke of "critical terrorist threats" in September "in mountains far away from urban areas."
The security and military institutions had taken the necessary steps, as part of the Crisis Response Unit, "to face up to these threats and deliver blows to terrorists so that they cannot pull themselves together," he said at a joint press conference with Defence Minister Ghazi Jeribi on the sidelines of a Conference of Governors.
The Crisis Response Unit will keep on working rigorously at a sustained pace to keep abreast of threats, Ben Jeddou underscored.
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TUNISIA, 2014/08/07
Tunisia has asked the United States for a dozen American-made Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters so its forces can "fight terrorism," the country's president said Tuesday.
Since its 2011 revolution, the North African country has seen the rise of a jihadist movement, with some 50 members of the military and police force killed in attacks linked to armed groups.
Meanwhile, extremist group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb recently claimed responsibility for attacks in Tunisia, notably an assault on the family home of the country's interior minister in May.
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TUNISIA, 2014/04/02
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) on Monday launched the 'UN World Youth programme' for the period 2014-2017 in the Tunisian capital, Tunis.
The appropriate representative of the UN Secretary-General for youth, Ahmed al-Handaoui, speaking at a news briefing, said that the objectives of the strategy were to facilitate the integration of youth in political and economic life, improve specific human rights for youth and ensure youth participation in active life.
The need to promote cooperation between youths from southern nations and promotion of voluntary work for young people throughout the world are as well some the objectives of initiative.
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BOTSWANA, 2013/06/21
Despite catalysing strong economic increase, the revenues taken from resources are widening the gap between rich and poor in a lot of African nations, the Africa Evolution Panel says.
While the continent’s 20 resource rich nations account for almost 80 % of its gross domestic product and per capita incomes have generally increased, these nations’ records on poverty reduction and human development are chequered, the APP says in its Africa Evolution Statement 2013.
“Africa’s increase figures are real and there is nothing wrong with resource based increase in terms of taking off, but increase has got to be equitable,” Strive Masiyiwa, a member of the Panel and founder of Econet Wireless said.
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TUNISIA, 2013/05/07
The extraction, refining and evacuation of phosphate ore in the major production centre of the Gafsa Phosphate Company (CPG) in Metlaoui resumed next an interruption of additional than one month which had paralysed the installations of the CPG. The ore loading operations in Redeyef as well resumed.
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EGYPT, 2013/05/06
A new partnership announced today between the United Nations and the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) seeks to fight poverty and create jobs through trade reforms in the Middle East and North Africa.
"Today we find ourselves at a world turning point, with nations of the South increasingly driving world increase and making rapid evolution on poverty reduction and job creation," said the Associate Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), Rebeca Grynspan at an event in New York.
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TUNISIA, 2012/12/08
The governments of Tunis and Algiers have urged businessmen to capitalize on the investment opportunities given to them in a bilateral cooperation between two countries in order to promote trade and development. Both parties showed their willingness to promote dialogue in their relations and agreed on the elaboration of a roadmap for the development of border regions they share aimed at strengthening their relations.
