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 721 - 730 of 824
| Title | Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response |
Location |
Country | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parents of primary school children in the city of Beni Khiar staged a sit-in in front of the school administration closing it, in protest of the school refusing enrolments. | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Environmental rights and services | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Beni Khiar | Tunisia | October 27, 2022 |
| Shopkeepers in Ben Gardane stage a sit-in outside the border crossing between Libya and Tunisia to protest against the traffic congestion when crossing the border to enter Tunisia | Workers group: Self-employed | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Ben Gardane | Tunisia | October 28, 2021 |
| General strike in the education sector to protest against the assault of a teacher in a secondary school in Ben Arous. Teachers and unions demand the issuance of a law criminalising the assault on teaching staff | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Demonstration, Strike / Strike announcement | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Ben Arous | Tunisia | November 12, 2021 |
| Workers at Coca Cola and biscuit manufacturing factories in Ben Arous stage a sit-in outside the governorate headquarters to demand authorities to supply factories with sugar so that they can resume their work | Workers group: Other | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Ben Arous | Tunisia | September 7, 2022 |
| Teachers from Ibn Rachik Secondary School in Ben Arous organise a protest to condemn violence against teachers and to denounce the violent educational environment, after a teacher working in the establishment was assaulted by a student. | Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Demonstration | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Ben Arous | Tunisia | November 9, 2021 |
| Workers in factories which need sugar as a raw material stage a sit-in outside Ben Arous governorate headquarters on call of the trade union branch for Food Industries, Tourism, Trade and Handicrafts to protest sugar shortage | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Other | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Ben Arous | Tunisia | August 26, 2022 |
| An open sit-in was launched by workers of the Mecaprotec Aéro Company denouncing the series of the recent aribtrary expulsion of employees | Workers group: Other | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Ben Arous | Tunisia | February 4, 2021 |
| Protesters demonstrated in front of the First Instance Court of Ben Arous calling for the release of all those arrested in the recent protest demonstrations | Collective / Informal group, CSO | Access to socio-eco rights: Freedom of expression and assembly | Demonstration | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Ben Arous | Tunisia | January 28, 2021 |
| Civil society representatives and youth gathered in front of the Ben Arous Court of First Instance to demand justice and accountability on the occasion of the 4th anniversary of Omar Laabidi murder | Collective / Informal group, CSO | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Ben Arous | Tunisia | March 31, 2022 |
| Employees of the Regional Office of Land Property in Beja start an open-ended strike to demand the enforcement of the new legal status of the National Office for Land Property that has been agreed upon in 2019 | 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 | Beja | Tunisia | November 18, 2021 |