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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Several people demonstrated in front of the Prime Ministerìs office in downtown Tunis in support of Palestine | Collective / Informal group | Regional / Political grievances | Demonstration | Support of a cause | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | May 11, 2021 |
| Left leaders and supporters staged a sit-in in front of the Ministry of Interior to demand to reveal the truth in the file of the assassination of Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi in 2013 | Political Party | Policy grievances, Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Support of a cause, Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | September 8, 2021 |
| On the 11th anniversary of the flight of President Ben Ali, civil society activists demonstrate in Mohamed V avenue against the measures taken by President Saied on July 25 and on September 22, and extended on December 13 | Collective / Informal group, CSO | Policy grievances | Demonstration | Revolutionary (seeking radical change across society / political system) | Repression | Tunis | Tunisia | January 14, 2022 |
| Protesters from different regions of the country marched in Tunis on Saturday under the National Salvation Front's request, denouncing deteriorating social & economic conditions and asking the President to step down. | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | March | Revolutionary (seeking radical change across society / political system) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | October 15, 2022 |
| Citizens and supporters of the National Salvation Front stage a sit-in calling on the President to step down and urging a return to the previous "constitutional order," blaming him for the deteriorating social and economic conditions. | Political Party | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | December 10, 2022 |
| A solidarity protest was held in support of cattle farmers from the town of Olad Jaballah in the Mahdia governorate | Collective / Informal group | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Demonstration | Support of a cause | Legislation | Tunis | Tunisia | February 19, 2021 |
| Following protests in the Sejoumi neighborhood of Tunis, violent clashes erupted between the protesters and the police | Collective / Informal group | Access to socio-eco rights: Freedom of expression and assembly | Demonstration | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | Tunis | Tunisia | June 12, 2021 | |
| Families and mothers of migrants missing in irregular migration staged a sit-in outside the Municipal Theatre in Tunis to demand truth about the fate of their children | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Demonstration | Support of a cause, Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | September 6, 2021 |
| The Free Constitutional Party stage a sit-in for the third day in a row in front of the headquarters of the Union of Muslim Scholars in Tunis to demand its closing | Political Party | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a public statement / Public representation | Repression | Tunis | Tunisia | December 16, 2021 |
| Journalists demonstrate outside the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists in Tunis in defence of freedom of the press and to denounce growing repression and intimidation | Workers group: Self-employed | Access to socio-eco rights: Freedom of expression and assembly | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | May 5, 2022 |