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 |
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Ship crew employees demonstrate on board a ship owned by the Tunisian Shipping Company to demand better working conditions | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Other | Corporate grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Demonstration | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | January 16, 2021 |
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 |
A solidarity demonstration was held in support of President Qais | Political Party | Policy grievances | Demonstration | Support to political leader / Public figure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | March 20, 2021 |
Contract workers stage sit-ins at the Kasbah and outside the Ministry of Social Affairs to demand their labour rights | Workers group: Other | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | December 20, 2021 |
On the 11th anniversary of the revolution, the Democratic Current, Ettakatol and the Jomhouri parties stage a sit-in in Habib Bourguiba street against the measures taken by President Saied on July 25 and on September 22, and extended on December 13 | Political Party | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Revolutionary (seeking radical change across society / political system) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | December 17, 2021 |
Partisans of President Saied spontaneously gathered close by the Municipal Theater in Tunis to support the measures taken by President Saied on July 25 and more recently on September 22. | Collective / Informal group | Other | Demonstration | Support to political leader / Public figure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | September 26, 2021 |
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 |
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 |
The Tunisian Labor Party organized a march against the ruling establishment and Ennahda Party | Political Party | Policy grievances | March | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | February 27, 2021 |
Several hundred employees from state companies stage a sit-in in front of the UGTT’s headquarters in Tunisin support of the general strike to protest against the government’s economic reform plans which include privatisation, and the freezing of salaries | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector | 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 16, 2022 |