AFAEMME's President suppporting the creation of an Economic and Social Committee in Tunisia

Ms. de Felipe, AFAEMME's President and member of the Euromediterranean Commission of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), has taken part of a mission which aims at supporting the creation of an Economic and Social Committee in Tunisia.

Ms. de Felipe traveled to Tunis on the 13th and 14th of April, together with the President of the EESC, Mr. Georges Dassis; Mr. José María Zufiaur Narvaiza, President of the Euromediterranean Commission and member of the Workers Group of the EESC; and another French member of the EESC. 

The mission is an initiative of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, a coalition of civil society groups that came together in the summer of 2013, when Tunisia was at a crossroads between democracy and violence. The Quartet is formed by the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), the Tunisian Confedereration of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts (UTICA), the Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH) and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers.

Ms. de Felipe and the other mission's participants met the highest representatives of the above mentioned organisations and discussed with them about how to design and plan the constitution of an Economic and Social Committee and about how this Committee should then function.

She also met AFAEMME's Tunisian member, the Chambre Nationale des Femmes Chefs d'Entreprises (CNFCE), by meeting its President, Ms. Raoudha Ben Saber and the association's treasurer and Board Member Ms. Cyrine Ben Mlouka.