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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Nesma channel journalists demonstrate in front of the headquarters of the Independent High Authority for Audiovisual Communication to protest their current situation as they were referred to compulsory unemployment | Workers group: Other | Corporate grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | Bargaining | Tunis | Tunisia | February 15, 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 |
General Union of Post offices start an open-ended sit-in to demand resumption of negotiations to have better workings conditions | 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 | March 16, 2022 |
Workers' Party members stage a sit-in in front of the Municipal Theatre in Tunis in solidarity with the Palestinian people and call on the Tunisian state to criminalise normalisation with Israel by a law | Political Party | Regional / Political grievances | Sit-in | Support of a cause | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | April 23, 2022 |
Activists are arrested and prevented from staging a demonstration to demand the criminalisation of the normalisation with Israel | CSO | Regional / Political grievances | Demonstration | Support of a cause | Repression | Tunis | Tunisia | May 14, 2022 |
A mass rally was held in Tunis to support Palestine | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Political Party | Regional / Political grievances | Demonstration | Support of a cause | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | May 15, 2021 |
A solidarity protest in Ariana in support of recent detainees in popular neighborhoods as well as Olad Juballah residents | Collective / Informal group, CSO | Injustice / Perceived injustice, Access to socio-eco rights: Freedom of expression and assembly | Demonstration | Support of a cause | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | February 12, 2021 |
Activists stage a sit-in in front of the Court of Accounts to demand the operationalization of the court's report regarding the abuses committed by some parties during the 2019 presidential and legislative elections. | Collective / Informal group | Policy grievances, Corruption and/ or lack of accountability | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | September 22, 2021 |
Nesma channel journalists demonstrate in front of the headquarters of the Independent High Authority for Audiovisual Communication for the second time to protest their current situation as they were referred to compulsory unemployment | Workers group: Other | Corporate grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | February 21, 2022 |
Supporters of the "Hope and Labour" party protested in front of the Municipal Theatre in Tunis to call for the release of MP Yassine Ayari | Political Party | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Demonstration | Support to political leader / Public figure, Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | September 11, 2021 |