A number of black-rights advocacy organisations have emerged in recent years to tackle legacy of discrimination.
By Afifa Ltifi
Al-Jazeera - 24 Apr 2014
Tunis - For four consecutive days last month, black
Tunisians marched against racism, travelling from the island of Djerba
in the southeast to Tunis in the north.
The "Equality Caravan", which marked the International Day for the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination, was organised by a group of black
Tunisian citizens who hoisted banners reading "Wseef is not a colour," referring to a pejorative racial epithet sometimes used against black Tunisians.
"We wanted to raise awareness, break the taboo subject of racism
through this march. We wanted to shock people about the reality of
discrimination," said event organiser Maha Abdulhamid, the co-founder
and a former member of the black rights' organisation ADAM for Equality
and Development in Tunisia.
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