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 101 - 110 of 824
| Title | Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response |
Location |
Country | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employees of the National Health Insurance Fund strike to demand a better insurance, work clothes, a unified pension system, and a new job classification system | Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights, Access to socio-eco rights: Social security and protection | Strike / Strike announcement | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...), Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | November 11, 2021 |
| Cactus prod employees stage a sit-in outside the Government Square Cactus prod employees to demand their due salaries and benefits | Workers group: Other | Corporate grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | Repression | Tunis | Tunisia | February 17, 2022 |
| Young doctors strike to protest the failure to implement the December 23, 2020 session agreement | Workers group: Healthcare workers | Corporate grievances, Policy grievances | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | February 11, 2021 |
| A protest movemement was held in front of the US embassy in Tunis to protest the American position in support of Israel | Campaign | Regional / Political grievances | Demonstration | Support of a cause | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | May 21, 2021 |
| National Board of Tobacco and Matches employees in Tunis start a three-day-long strike to demand the disbursement of a productivity grant, the regularisation of contract workers and other labour rights | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | December 27, 2021 |
| Taxi owners demonstrate outside the Government Palace in Tunis to demand to delay the settlement of their debts | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Self-employed | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Demonstration | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | January 28, 2021 |
| A protest was held in Habib Bourguiba Avenue to denounce the recent arrests and police abuses taking place | Collective / Informal group, CSO | Access to socio-eco rights: Freedom of expression and assembly | Demonstration | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | Repression | Tunis | Tunisia | January 23, 2021 |
| Teachers in continuous protest movements in light of the failure of negotiations between the Ministry of Education and the association of Basic Education for better employment contracts. | Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | Cooptation | Tunis | Tunisia | October 18, 2022 |
| Doctors at Rabta hospital in Tunis start an open-ended strike to protest the absence of security guards to ensure public safety at the hospital | Workers group: Healthcare workers | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | May 23, 2022 |
| A protest was held by "Manech Msalmin" (I do not give up) collective movement in Habib Bourguiba Avenue demanding to reopen the investigation into the 2013 political assassinations of opposition politicians Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi and the alleged | Collective / Informal group | Policy grievances, Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Support of a cause, Demands for rights / Services | Repression | Tunis | Tunisia | September 1, 2021 |