Emna Sammari combines a solid academic background with rigorous activism on human rights and the women’s rights in particular. She is a lawyer, national expert on human rights, gender and transitional justice (JT), and the laureate of Women of the Mediterranean Program-Sciences Po’ Paris in 2015. She was selected as a member of the National Technical Committee overseeing the national debates on TJ in Tunisia which elaborated the TJ law. Emna is currently enrolled in the PhD program at the University of Legal, Political and Social Sciences in Tunis where she has worked as a part-time lecturer in Criminal Procedures and criminal law since 2013.
Emna works as a national consultant on TJ and fighting against torture with UNDP. She worked three (3) years as a program officer on criminal justice and fighting corruption within ICTJ. She has been very active within the Tunisian association of defending individual liberties – of which she is the responsible of research – defending in the human rights and individual liberties.

National Consultant on Transitional Justice

United Nation Development Program Tunisia Office

Jul. 2011 - Mar. 2018

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National Consultant

United Nation Development Program Tunisia Office

Aug. 2017 - Jan. 2018

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Research Officer

Association de Défense des Libertés Individuelles

Sep. 2017 - Dec. 2017

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Program Officer

International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) Tunisia Office

Jan. 2014 - Mar. 2017

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Legal consultant

Lawyers without Boundaries –ASF – Tunisia Office

Mar. 2017 - Mar. 2017

Ph.D.in international public law

Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences, Tunis

2016 - 2018

Thesis topic: State’s Responsibility in Transitional Justice: Tunisian Case

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M.A. in Common Law

Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences, Tunis

2009 - 2012

Thesis topic : "Transitional justice in Tunisia "

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Maîtrise en Sciences Juridiques, Politiques et Sociales

Faculté des Sciences Juridiques, Politiques et Sociales de Tunis

2005 - 2009