Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights
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The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (Arabic: المنتدى التونسي للحقوق الإقتصادية والإجتماعية; French: Forum tunisien pour les droits économiques et sociaux, or FTDES) is a non-governmental organization in Tunisia. FTDES studies and makes recommendations about such socioeconomic issues as protest movements, economic policy, unemployment, state violence, transitional justice, anti-corruption, marginalization of Tunisia's interior (west-central) regions, and the Mediterranean migration crisis.[1][2][3][4]
The organization cites the January 2008 Gafsa Basin protests as well as the 2011 revolution as inspiration for its work.[3]
Leadership and structure
As of 2021[update], the FTDES executive director is Alaa Talbi.[5][6][7]
Actions
Among the core activities of the FTDES is researching and publishing monitoring reports on current issues of social and economic concern in Tunisia.[8][9][10]
In 2015, the FTDES worked with families of missing youth who had migrated to Italy to pressure the government into forming a commission of inquiry about their fates.[11]