Mapping of Collective Actions in Tunisia
Publication Date: 2019
The mapping of collective actions in Tunisia 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: December 23rd, 2019 - till present.
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| Title | Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response |
Location |
Country | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young doctors strike to protest the failure to implement the December 23, 2020 session agreement | Workers group: Healthcare workers | Corporate grievances, Policy grievances | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | February 11, 2021 |
| Tunisia's Young Judges Association starts an open-ended strike a sit-in to protest the Interim Supreme Judicial Council which was appointed by President Saied after the dissolution of the Supreme Judicial Council | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector, CSO | Policy grievances | Strike / Strike announcement | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | February 14, 2022 |
| The Workers' party stage a sit-in outside the Municipal Theater in Tunis to denounce the exceptional measures decreed by the President on July 25 and the pre-25 July political system, They call for a "democracy from the people". | Political Party | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure, Revolutionary (seeking radical change across society / political system) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | October 9, 2021 |
| A protest was held in Habib Bourguiba Avenue to denounce the recent arrests and police abuses taking place | Collective / Informal group, CSO | Access to socio-eco rights: Freedom of expression and assembly | Demonstration | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | Repression | Tunis | Tunisia | January 23, 2021 |
| Independent traders strike and stage a sit-in outside Tunis municipality to demand the municipality to be more flexible with them in light of its inability to provide them favourable conditions | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Self-employed | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights, Corporatist grievances | Sit-in, Strike / Strike announcement | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | May 25, 2022 |
| Dozens of women supporting gender equality movements take part in a "Gender Dynamic" march from Ibn Khaldun Square to Habib Bourguiba Avenue to protest against violence to women in society | CSO | Access to socio-eco rights: Gender equality and inclusion | March | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | December 10, 2021 |
| Employees of the National Health Insurance Fund strike to demand a better insurance, work clothes, a unified pension system, and a new job classification system | Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights, Access to socio-eco rights: Social security and protection | Strike / Strike announcement | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...), Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | November 11, 2021 |
| Individual taxi owners stage a strike due to the government's refusal to acknowledge their concerns on the transportation application. | Workers group: Other | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | January 16, 2023 |
| Healthcare staff held a demonstration demanding urgent reforms in the healthcare sector, and calling on the government to commit to immediately fixing basic facilities in public hospitals. | Workers group: Healthcare workers | Corporate grievances | Demonstration | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | December 8, 2020 |
| Representatives of 5 opposition parties demonstrate outside the headquarters of the Independent High Authority for Elections sub-committees of Sfax 1 and 2 in continuation of their "national campaign" against the July 25 referendum | Political Party | Policy grievances | Demonstration | Revolutionary (seeking radical change across society / political system) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | June 11, 2022 |