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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zughb residents roadblock to protester water cuts | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Zughb | Tunisia | July 2, 2022 |
| Protesters roadblock in Zriba to demand the authorities to implement their promises regarding the cleaning and reviving of the irrigated area built on the Bouachir Dam | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Zriba | Tunisia | July 25, 2021 |
| Zriba residents block the Zaghouan - Zriba road to protest the recurring cut-off of drinking water | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Zriba | Tunisia | June 8, 2022 |
| Zouaouine residents block the Zouaouine - Awsajah road to protest water cuts | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Zouaouine | Tunisia | July 2, 2022 |
| Families stage an open sit-in over those missing in illegal immigration shipwreck setting up tents in the headquarters of the commission | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Support of a cause | N/A | Zarzis | Tunisia | October 21, 2022 |
| Protesters roadblock in Zarzis to demand the transfer of the migrant shelter and the expulsion of migrants from their district | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Policy grievances | Road blockade | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Zarzis | Tunisia | October 4, 2021 |
| A general strike was held Tuesday in Zarzis city, on the call of the locals, and families of missing people, asking for truth and accountability in the burial of missing migrants in the local foreigners' cemetery without identification. | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Policy grievances | Strike / Strike announcement | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Zarzis | Tunisia | October 18, 2022 |
| Families hold an open sit-in over those missing in illegal immigration shipwreck | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Support of a cause | N/A | Zarzis | Tunisia | October 20, 2022 |
| Tunisian NGOs condemned the police crackdown on a "peaceful" march staged by the inhabitants of Zarzis to demand the disclosure of the full truth about the sinking of a boat carrying 18 local migrants. | CSO | Injustice / Perceived injustice | March | Support of a cause | N/A | Zarzis | Tunisia | November 18, 2022 |
| People stage a sit-in in Zarzis, as families of missing migrants in the sinking of a shipwreck off the city came out carrying symbolic coffins of their relatives demanding the bodies of their missing sons. | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Support of a cause | N/A | Zarzis | Tunisia | November 5, 2022 |