Mapping of Collective Actions in Jordan
Publication Date: 2019
The mapping of collective actions in Jordan tracks mobilisations by groups of people whose goal is to achieve a common objective.
Each mapped collective action is based on a typology devised by the Centre for Social Sciences Research and Action.
The objective of this database is to explore collective actions by providing accurate data and relevant information on mobilisations happening in the country.
Explore the interactive charts below the table.
Data collection for this mapping is done by the CeSSRA team.
Information sources: Media reports, NGO reports, aid actors reports, as well as first-hand data collected by the CeSSRA team.
Period covered by data collection: September 1st, 2019 - till present.
Displaying 431 - 440 of 826
| Title | Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response |
Location |
Country | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Committee for the Defense of Radio and Television Corporation employees who were arbitrarily assigned to the National Library Department stages a sit-in in front of the Jordan Press Association to demand that they resume their work at the Corporation | Workers group: Other, CSO | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | Bargaining | Amman | Jordan | October 11, 2021 |
| As their open-ended strike continues, engineers and agronomists working for the Ministry of Education hold a sit-in in front of the ministry building repeating their demand to receive equal labor treatment with the rest of ministerial employees | Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Amman | Jordan | December 24, 2018 |
| As their open-ended strike enters the second day, municipality workers stage a mass sit-in in front of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs to repeat their demands for better labor conditions | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Amman | Jordan | October 9, 2018 |
| Retirees of the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company stage a two-day-long sit-in in front of the company's headquarters in Amman to protest against the deterioration of their health insurance | Workers group: Retirees | Corporate grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Social security and protection | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | Bargaining | Amman | Jordan | May 16, 2022 |
| The Public Security Directorate organizes a march to increase public awareness of the drug scourge, through a variety of events in various regions of the Kingdom. | Workers group: Security / Military forces | Access to socio-eco rights: Social security and protection | March | Support of a cause | N/A | Amman | Jordan | November 4, 2022 |
| Hundreds of "Yellow Taxi" drivers stage a sit-in in front of the Parliament to protest the government delay in implementing a number of protective measures cushioning the concurrence of ride-hailing apps | Workers group: Self-employed, Collective / Informal group | Corporatist grievances | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Amman | Jordan | March 19, 2019 |
| Hundreds of teachers stage a protest in front of the Professional Associations Complex in Amman to reiterate their demands for greater labor rights and benefits | Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Amman | Jordan | October 3, 2019 |
| Smart application drivers start an open-ended sit-in outside the Parliament to reiterate their demands and to protest against the lack of state response to their demands | Workers group: Self-employed | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Amman | Jordan | February 15, 2022 |
| Service drivers operating the Gardens - Khalda route demonstrate in Amman to protest against the unfair competition of minibuses drivers | Workers group: Self-employed | Corporatist grievances | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Amman | Jordan | September 28, 2021 |
| Jordanian Teachers’ Union stages a sit-in at the Education Directorate in solidarity with the colleagues detained after the school-bus accident provoked by floods in the Dead Sea region | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Amman | Jordan | November 13, 2018 |