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 681 - 690 of 824
Title | Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response | Location | Country | Date |
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Teachers in Al-primary Ghazali's school stage a sit-in due to a parent of a student's assaulting the school's principal. | Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Access to socio-eco rights: Social security and protection | Sit-in | Support of a cause | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | November 26, 2022 |
Tunisair staff protest the freezing of assets by Turkish company | Workers group: Public Sector | Corporate grievances | Demonstration | Other | Procedural action | Tunis | Tunisia | February 19, 2021 |
Leftlist political parties organized a demonstration calling for reopening the investigation into the 2013 assassinations in downtown Tunis. | Political Party | Policy grievances, Injustice / Perceived injustice | Demonstration | Support of a cause, Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | September 1, 2021 |
National Health Insurance Fund employees strike and stage a sit-in outside the Tunisian General Labour Union in Tunis to demand the enforcement of a law that would ensure their labour rights | 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 | Tunis | Tunisia | March 1, 2022 |
Public sector engineers held a sit-in in Tunis | Workers group: Public Sector | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | April 2, 2021 |
Supporters of the People's Movement stage a sit-in in front of the Municipal Theater in Tunis in support of the 25 July Referendum | Political Party | Other | Sit-in | Support to political leader / Public figure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | July 16, 2022 |
Migrants coming from African countries stage a sit-in in front of the International Organisation for Migration to demand their return to their countries of origin | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | September 4, 2022 |
Female workers in the agricultural sector stage a sit-in outside the municipal theater in Tunis to demand to put an end to their socioeconomic marginalisation and to demand same salaries as male workers | Workers group: Agriculture workers | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | October 3, 2022 |
"Citizens against Coup" organise a march towards Parliament to demand return to constitutional order, cancellation of exceptional measures taken by the President, release of "political prisoners" and to denounce difficult living conditions and shortage of | Collective / Informal group, Political Party, CSO | Policy grievances | Demonstration | Revolutionary (seeking radical change across society / political system) | Repression | Tunis | Tunisia | March 20, 2022 |
Civil society activists and human rights defenders stage a sit-in outside the US Embassy in Tunis to protest the US interference in Tunisian affairs | CSO | Regional / Political grievances | Sit-in | Support of a cause | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | July 30, 2022 |