Yadh Ben Achour
Yadh Ben Achour ( Arabic عياض بن عاشور, also Iyadh Ben Achour , born June 1, 1945 ) is a Tunisian constitutional lawyer , Islamic political scientist and president of Tunisia's first constituent commission. He is the son of Mohamed Fadhel Ben Achour, who was a major Tunisian theologian and activist for a trade union. In 1969, Ben Achour completed a law degree with the Diplôme d'études supérieures (DES) de Droit public, and a year later he obtained a degree in political science. In 1976 Ben Achour was appointed professor in the law faculty of the University of Tunis, in 1987 he was appointed professor in the law, political and social science faculties. In 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Laurentian University of Sudbury.
From 1987 to 1988 he was a member of the Economic and Social Council of Tunisia, and in 1988 Yadh Ben Achour was appointed to the Tunisian Constitutional Council. In 1992 he resigned from this office under protest. The reason was the President's attempt to suppress the Tunisian League for Human Rights by legal means. Since then, the lawyer Ben Achour has been considered one of the strongest opponents of the dictator Ben Ali .
On January 17, 2011, a few days after Ben Ali left the country, Ben Achour was appointed by Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi to head a commission of experts that was supposed to tackle political and constitutional reforms.
Ben Achour received the Bonn International Democracy Prize in 2012 . Ben Achour is co-founder of the Tunisian International Academy of Constitutional Law and President of the Administrative Court of the African Development Bank . In May 2012, Ben Achour was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Committee. Ben Achour is an advocate of the idea of an International Court of Justice and has recently published on this in the book Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and Islam after the Arab Spring .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Professor Yadh Ben Achour - curriculum vitae ( Memento from May 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ He became President of the Commission supérieure de réforme politique for the Ghannouchi II government
- ↑ Francis Ghiles: Democracy in Tunisia Could rewrite the history of the Mediterranean , Center d'Estudis I Documentació Internacionals a Barcelona. January 21, 2011. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
- ^ Homepage of the Association for the International Democracy Prize Bonn. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
- ↑ [1]
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| SURNAME | Ben Achour, Yadh |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ben Achour, Iyadh; عياض بن عاشور (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tunisian legal scholar and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1945 |