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 11 - 20 of 824
| Title | Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response |
Location |
Country | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Families hold an open sit-in over those missing in illegal immigration shipwreck | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Support of a cause | N/A | Zarzis | Tunisia | October 20, 2022 |
| Refugees and asylum-seekers start an open-ended sit-in outside the UNHCR office in Zarzis to protest against their expulsion from dormitories and the suspension of financial aid | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Injustice / Perceived injustice, Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Zarzis | Tunisia | February 10, 2022 |
| Tunisian NGOs condemned the police crackdown on a "peaceful" march staged by the inhabitants of Zarzis to demand the disclosure of the full truth about the sinking of a boat carrying 18 local migrants. | CSO | Injustice / Perceived injustice | March | Support of a cause | N/A | Zarzis | Tunisia | November 18, 2022 |
| People stage a sit-in in Zarzis, as families of missing migrants in the sinking of a shipwreck off the city came out carrying symbolic coffins of their relatives demanding the bodies of their missing sons. | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Support of a cause | N/A | Zarzis | Tunisia | November 5, 2022 |
| A sit-in was staged at the Al-Fahs municipality by the wounded victims of the revolution | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Policy grievances, Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Support of a cause | Repression | Zaghouan | Tunisia | March 23, 2021 |
| Zaafrana residents block the road connecting Kairouan to the south to protest power cuts | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Zaafrana | Tunisia | July 1, 2022 |
| Demonstrators blocking roads, setting fire to rubber wheels and demanding a speedy search for those missing in irregular migration activities. | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Social security and protection | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | Repression | Welayat monastir | Tunisia | October 19, 2022 |
| Farmers from Utica and Bach Hamba block Tunis-Bizerte road to protest irrigation water cut | Workers group: Agriculture workers | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Utica | Tunisia | July 15, 2022 |
| Farmers and residents roadblock in Utica over water cuts | Workers group: Agriculture workers, Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Utica | Tunisia | July 16, 2022 |
| Protests were held across several cities to denounce the corruption and ineptitude of the political class. Ennahda's offices were targeted by the protesters. Protesters demanded the departure of the government and the dissolution of the House of People's | Collective / Informal group | Policy grievances, Corruption and/ or lack of accountability | March, Demonstration | Revolutionary (seeking radical change across society / political system) | Repression | Tunis, Sousse, Tozeur, Kebili, Siliana, Monastir, Sfax, Kairouan, Nabeul, Sidi Bouzid, Gafsa, El Kef, Nabeul | Tunisia | July 25, 2021 |