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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employees of the Italian-Tunisian company Petroleum Development in Tataouine stage a sit-in outside the UGTT headquarters to demand the regularisation of their situation | Workers group: Other | Corporate grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tataouine | Tunisia | April 4, 2022 |
| A demonstration was held in Tatatouine calling for state investment and employment | Collective / Informal group, CSO | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in, Road blockade | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | Repression, Bargaining | Tataouine | Tunisia | June 21, 2020 |
| Five employees of a catering company in Tataouine enter their third day of hunger strike to demand job continuity and the payment of their dues | Workers group: Other | Corporate grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Hunger Strike | Demands for rights / Services | Bargaining | Tataouine | Tunisia | November 28, 2021 |
| Young men lit tires on fire and blocked roads in the city of Tebourba, a mumber of arrests followed | Collective / Informal group | Other | Tire burning | Other | Procedural action | Tebourba | Tunisia | October 22, 2022 |
| Transport workers in an open-ended strike at the Technical Agency of Land Transport demanding better work conditions. | Workers group: Other | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Technical Agency of Land Transport | Tunisia | December 12, 2022 |
| Healthcare workers in Thala stage a sit-in to denounce a recent assault against the medical staff at the emergency department | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Healthcare workers | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Thala | Tunisia | July 18, 2022 |
| The Ministry of Economy's agents and executives stage a strike in order to demand the activation of the grant approved by the former Minister of Finance and a solution to the matter regarding promotions and designations. | Workers group: Public Sector | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | The Ministry of Economy | Tunisia | November 24, 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 |
| Healthcare workers at the Hedi Jaballah Regional Hospital in Tozeur stage a one-hour sit-in to denounce the recent attacks they have been facing and to demand security agents for the hospital | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Healthcare workers | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tozeur | Tunisia | June 2, 2022 |
| Owners of tourist carts pulled by horses block the main road in front of the governorate headquarters in Tozeur to protest against the Ministry of Tourism not fulfilling its commitments towards them | Workers group: Other | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tozeur | Tunisia | August 2, 2022 |