The National Union of Tunisian Women, a non-governmental organization founded in 1956 with the independence of Tunisia. In August of the same year, the Code of Personal Status was enacted.
At first, UNFT has devoted its efforts in awareness campaigns that led to for women across the country to get them to aware of their rights and their role in economic and social development.
Since UNFT advocates for improving the status of Tunisian women.
She has worked to strengthen the legal basis under which experienced pulse of the current President, a breakthrough with the amendments of the code, introduced in August 1992 and the presidential measures in April 1996.
Mission:
• Work towards improving the status of women and the elimination of all forms of discrimination against them.
• Ensure the promotion of women in all areas: economic, social, cultural, scientific.
• Acting for greater involvement of women in the centers of power and decision-making spaces.
• develop programs to enhance the involvement of women in development.
• strengthening the education of women fighting one hand against illiteracy, fighting other hand, the causes of wastage.
• Train girls out of school in the vocational training centers UNFT.
• Facilitate women’s access to new information and communications technology
• Advocate for the eradication of poverty, creating sources income for women and provide support to families in precarious situations.
• Acting in the interest of peace in the world.