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.
Displaying 541 - 550 of 824
| Title | Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response | Location |
Country |
Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxi drivers block the Sousse -Nabeul road over a decision of the municipality of Hammamet to make new taxi stations where taxis coming from Bouficha are banned and which can only be used to drop-off taxi riders | Workers group: Self-employed | Corporatist grievances | Road blockade | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Hammamet | Tunisia | June 20, 2022 |
| Free Destourian Party activists demonstrate outside the ''Lawyers House'' in Tunis in solidarity with their party leader Abir Moussi who has been summoned in front of the Court of First Instance and was refused entry into the Lawyers House | Political Party | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Demonstration | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | June 21, 2022 |
| The National Campaign to Abolish the Referendum launched by opposition parties organises a sit-in and a march from Nabeul's medina to the Independent Higher Authority for the Elections' headquarters to demand to cancel the referendum | Campaign | Policy grievances | March, Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Nabeul | Tunisia | June 19, 2022 |
| Farmers roadblock in Oued Mliz to protest irrigation water cuts | Workers group: Agriculture workers | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Oued Mliz | Tunisia | June 19, 2022 |
| Thyna residents block the Gabes - Sfax road to protest the prolonged 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 | Thyna | Tunisia | June 20, 2022 |
| Contract teachers stage a sit-in outside the Ministry of Education in Tunis to demand permanent positions and increase in wages and benefits | Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | June 21, 2022 |
| Taxi drivers stage a sit-in outside the Governorate Building in Nabeul to demand to operate the Nabeul - Bouchifa route | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Self-employed | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Nabeul | Tunisia | June 22, 2022 |
| General Federation of Textiles, Clothes, Leather and Shoes organises a sit-in outside the Ministry of Social Affairs to protest the government's inaction regarding working conditions in the sector | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Other | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | June 22, 2022 |
| Dahmani residents stage a sit-in to protest the authorities' failure to provide them with drinking water and pump water despite what they pledged | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | Repression | Dahmani | Tunisia | June 22, 2022 |
| Protesters block the Bousalem-Fernana road to protest drinking water cuts | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Jendouba | Tunisia | June 23, 2022 |

