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 11 - 20 of 824
| Title | Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response |
Location |
Country | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public sector employees who work for 159 state institutions and public companies hold a general strike under the umbrella of the UGTT to demand salary increases, implementation of agreed-upon agreements, and to reject privatisation | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunisia | June 16, 2022 | |
| Doctors strike nationwide to demand reforms of their status and benefits. The strike is organised by the Union of Public Health Doctors Pharmacists and Dentists. | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Healthcare workers | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunisia | January 25, 2022 | |
| Post offices employees start a three-day-long strike nationwide to demand their labour rights and better working conditions | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunisia | January 18, 2022 | |
| Supporters of ''Citizens against the Coup'', members of Parliament and opposition activists start a hunger-strike at the Movement Party headquarters to protest the measures taken by President Saied on July 25 and on September 22, and extended on December | Political Party, CSO | Policy grievances | Hunger Strike | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tunisia | December 23, 2021 | |
| 56 detainees in Tunisian jails hunger strike to demand their release | Other | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Hunger Strike | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tunisia | November 17, 2021 | |
| The basic union of aircraft technicians holds a strike after the failure of the conciliation meeting between the Ministry of Transport and the union | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Other | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunisia | September 9, 2022 | |
| Employees who work for 9 companies that collect, transport and treat hazardous medical waste strike to demand their dues to the Health ministry | Workers group: Other | Policy grievances | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunisia | July 15, 2022 | |
| Goods and fuel transport sector workers start a three-day-long strike to demand their labour rights | Workers group: Other | Corporate grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunisia | January 6, 2022 | |
| National Statistics Institute employees start a strike to demand their labour rights and better working conditions | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunisia | January 18, 2022 | |
| The Workers' Party stages a sit-in outside the Municipal theatre in Sfax to demand the fall of the current corrupted system | Political Party | Policy grievances, Corruption and/ or lack of accountability | Sit-in | Revolutionary (seeking radical change across society / political system) | N/A | Tunisia | January 16, 2022 |