396. The budget increase makes possible the realization of new major projects
for the benefit of the cultural infrastructure, they are:
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The City of Culture which contains several rooms for shows (Opera,
Theatre, Music), a Multimedia Library, Exposition Galeries, A National
Archive Office for Artistic Works, two large Cinema Projection rooms and
National Civilizations Museum;
The National Book Centre (The National Library of Tunis) which shows the
importance accorded in Tunisia to the preservation of collective memory as
a basic cultural right and means of communication between the
generations;
The technological pole for the Cinema Industry which is intended to be a
supporting institution for the professionals of the private sector, both
Tunisian and foreign, for the purpose of allowing picture artists in Tunisia
to carry out their work in appropriate conditions and through the use of
advanced technology.
397. In the matter of human rights linked to the participation in cultural life,
Tunisia can therefore boast of a cultural space open to all Tunisians.
III- The promotion and protection of morals and traditional
humanistic values
398. The promotion and protection of morals and traditional humanistic values are
necessary for societal equilibrium and for each of the citizens. It is a requirement
for the resistance against all the expressions of extirpation and loss of self
generated by a certain destructive globalization. It is in this regard that Tunisia
made the protection of humanistic values an uninterrupted daily endeavour, which
constantly requires Ijtihad and creativity in order to preserve its creativity and its
aura.
A) The values of solidarity, of mutual assistance, of tolerance for work
and moderation
399. Article 5 of the Tunisian Constitution stipulates that « the State and Society
shall work towards the firm implantation of the values of solidarity, of mutual
assistance and tolerance between individuals, groups and generations». This
constitutionalization of the fundamental human values carries a vocation which
corresponds to Tunisia’s best values and to its firm establishment in universality.
The political incidences of solidarity, of mutual assistance, of tolerance on the
relationship between rights and responsibilities, between freedom and
responsibility, as between individualism and the general interest, nationality and
citizenship become a concrete and daily affair.
400. In this same perspective, Article 3 of the orientation law n° 2002-80 of 23rd
July 2002, relative to education and school teaching establishes for the School a
primary mission of implanting in the pupils « the set of values shared by all
Tunisians and which are based on the primacy of knowledge, of work, of
solidarity, of tolerance and moderation. It is guarantor of the establishment of a
society which is deeply attached to its cultural identity, open to modernism and
which takes inspiration from the humanistic ideals and universal principles of
freedom, democracy, social justice and human rights ».
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