UN General Assembly
1967

111. Tunisia, for its part, having a decade of independence behind it, can for the first time take stock of what it has accomplished in its struggle against under-development and for the promotion of human welfare. We have had ten years fraught with difficulties, many of whom vestiges of the colonial era, ten years of bitter struggle against under-development in all its forms, including backward economic structures, superannuated social institutions, and mental attitudes unsuited to modern times, ten years at the end of which there is at last a reasonable and serious hope that in the near future the Tunisian will fully recover his human dignity, as well as his freedom. Looking back, we can see that profound changes have taken place in Tunisia: women have been completely emancipated, the children are in school, the citizens are becoming increasingly aware of both their rights and their duties in a society which is ever striving for greater justice.