- The assurance that the travel by the Judges to the sites on mission, takes
places under the best of conditions;
627. All these measures guarantee the independence of the judiciary. They show
that the independence of the justice system is based on the values of respect for
human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law, and human rights.
They also contribute to bringing justice closer to the citizen and to give him back
all his credibility and efficiency.
Conclusion
628. The protection of the human being, the development and the realization of
each individual move in tandem with the development of the society. There was a
time when civil and political rights and social and economic rights were being
opposed. Such an opposition would today appear senseless. There are no
economic and social rights without the civil protection of individuals, without
democratic political institutions, just as there is no protection of human dignity and
genuine democracy in exploitation, destitution and illiteracy. Civil and political
rights and economic and socal rights are indivisible.
629. Beyond the formal display of the rights, it is their contents that Tunisia is
currently enriching through the promotion of collective guarantees ensuring an
effective right to human development. Thus, the promotion of the right to
employment, to good health, to education and to training, delineates the
perspective of a social democracy which pushes away all the external and
internal constraints to the development of personalities.
630. The encouragement of civil society’s participation in the conception and
concretization of development priorities, in particular at the local level, the
stimulation of private initiatives, the promotion of the dynamic sectors for
economic growth and the involvement of the regional structures in the decision
preparation process are rooted in the meaning of good governance.
631. Tunisia has fixed other objectives in the domain of human development: to
join, by the year 2009, the platoon of countries which have the best indicators in
the area of human development; multiply by two the per capita income by the
year 2016 by raising it to 8,000 Dinars; bring down the unemployment rate from
14% to 10% by the end of 2016. These objectives will allow the maximization of
the advantages of globalization and to guard against the negative effects
detrimental to the exercise of human rights and to human development.
632. Tunisia has ceaselessly sought to promote an international future built on
other dynamics, on other values than those of profit and in which good governance
would be the democratic aptitude that the public authorities, civil society and the
Businesses would deploy in order to participate in, even direct the sustained
development of their environment. So long as nations continue to clash with each
other, with all the suffering that that generates and so long as national selfishness
dominates international relations, the ideal of human brotherhood will remain vain.
The appeal launched by President Ben Ali for the creation of a World Solidarity
Fund opens on a certainty which renders to the peoples and leaders of the world
their share of the intrinsic responsibility in the building of better future and in the
discovery of new complicities and new international solidarity.
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