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 631 - 640 of 824
Title | Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response |
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The Free Constitutional Party stages a sit-in outside the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to denounce the scientific and educational seminars that the ministry is carrying out in partnership with the Association of Muslim Scholars | Political Party | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | December 25, 2021 |
National Anti-Corruption Agency employees stage a sit-in in front of the headquarters of the agency in Tunis to demand clarification about the future of the agency and of their contracts | Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | January 24, 2022 |
National Agency for Energy Control employees stage a sit-in to demand the publication in the Official Gazette of the agency's updated status | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | March 10, 2022 |
Unemployed stage a sit-in in the Kheireddine Pacha Avenue in Tunis to protest against the decision of President Saied to cancel Law No. 38 of 2020 | Workers group: Unemployed | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | December 14, 2021 |
Managers at the National Railway Company stage a sit-in at their workplace to protest the dismissal of four of their colleagues following a collision between two trains | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | March 30, 2022 |
Radio journalists stage a sit-in outside the Tunisian National Radio building to demand a reform of the institution | 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 | May 25, 2022 |
Free Destourian Party activists stage a sit-in outside the headquarters of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Tunis to denounce human rights violation in Tunisia | Political Party | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Support of a cause | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | July 22, 2022 |
The General Union of Independent Traders affiliated with the Tunisian Labor Union organized a protest in front of the Tunis governorate headquarters to demand the completion of the Carthage project, which has been delayed since 2011. | Workers group: Union / Syndicate | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Demonstration | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | December 6, 2022 |
Hundreds of protesters and civil society organisations demonstrated denouncing police repression and arrests | Collective / Informal group, CSO | Access to socio-eco rights: Freedom of expression and assembly | Demonstration | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | January 30, 2021 |
Free Destourian Party activists demonstrate in the Kasbah to demand to obey the Constitution and to dissolve terrorist associations | Political Party | Policy grievances | Demonstration | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | November 20, 2021 |