Yosra Frawes: born in 1979 in Jedeida, near Tunis. After earning her bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Law, Political Science, and Social Sciences in Tunis, she became a lawyer and dedicated herself to defending the most vulnerable members of society: women, disadvantaged families, and people deprived of their human rights.
Translated with DeepL.
Original language: Deutsch
Following the Tunisian Revolution (2011), she became a member of the expert committee of the High Authority for the Implementation of the Goals of the Revolution, Political Reform, and Democratic Transition. Within this body, which was responsible for legislation in the post-revolutionary period, she helped identify legal provisions that undermined human rights and participated in their repeal, as well as in the drafting of provisions to protect individual rights and freedoms in accordance with international standards. These efforts contributed significantly to improving legislation on freedom of association, assembly, the press, and expression, as well as to establishing gender parity on electoral lists.
In 2017, she was a member of the working group and advocacy group for the passage of Law 58/2017 on the Elimination of Violence Against Women within the framework of the National Coalition to Combat Violence Against Women.
After 20 years as a member of the Tunisian National Association of Democratic Women (ATFD), Yosra Frawes served as its president from 2018 until the summer of 2021. In this new role, she was responsible in particular for drafting numerous communiqués and statements of solidarity, notably the appeal of November 25, 2020, calling for the elimination of violence against women. In this vein, during the 13th ATFD Congress in 2019, she directly called on the Tunisian state and the President of the Republic to establish a constitutional court and ensure absolute equality between women and men.
She is currently leading a project on gender equality in inheritance law in the Maghreb countries of Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria. Since 2013, she has also been the first Tunisian woman to head the Tunis office of the international organization Fédération Internationale pour les Droits Humains (FIDH) for the Maghreb and the Middle East.
Yosra Frawes writes poetry, which she is the first Tunisian poet to publish both online and on CD.
