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On its part the [[International Centre for Transitional Justice]] has set nine 'concrete and tangible' goals with focus on "accountability for serious violations of human rights, access to justice, facilitating peace processes, advancing the cause of reconciliation and reforming the state and social institutions".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ictj.org/about|title=About us|publisher=International Centre for Transitional Justice|access-date=20 April 2019|date=15 February 2011}}</ref> One of those goals was taken up by [[Truth and Dignity Commission (Tunisia)]] that recorded and submitted to the relevant court the human rights abuses which had been committed by the Tunisian regime. A new climate of freedom of speech, freedom of organisation and elections characterised the political environment of post-Ben Ali Tunisia.
 
Some observers and social analysts remarked, however, that the issue of [[social justice]] remained a rhetoric or was marginalised. In the context of revolution. According to Fathi Al-Shamikhi, an expert in debt issues and founder of the Tunisian association [[RAID]], different social forces played a crucial role in matters related to social demands and achieving social justice. "This role varies between those who advocate these demands and those who reject them, according twoto the social nature of each of these forces."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.socialjusticeportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Social-Justice-Concept-and-Policies-after-the-Arab-Revolutions-E.pdf|title=Social Justice in the Light of the Revolutionary Process in Tunisia in ''Social Justice Concept and Policies After the Arab Revolutions''|publisher=Arab Forum for Alternative Studies, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation|date=2014|access-date=20 April 2019|page=93}}</ref>
"Bread, freedom and social justice" were the main slogans of the Arab revolutions. But although social and economic demands were raised, argued researcher and former editor in chief of the Egyptian [[Al-Shorouq]] Newspaper, Wael Gamal, "they were pushed aside in the political arena, and more attention was given to issues such as the transfer of power arrangements, the constitution first, the elections first, democratic transformation and the religious-secular conflict."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.socialjusticeportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Social-Justice-Concept-and-Policies-after-the-Arab-Revolutions-E.pdf|title=Social Justice and the Arab Revolutions: The Complexities of the Concept and Policies in ''Social Justice Concept and Policies After the Arab Revolutions''|publisher=Arab Forum for Alternative Studies, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation|date=2014|access-date=20 April 2019|page=15}}</ref>