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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Beni Omar residents block the Bizerte-Ksar Lahmar road to protest the suspension of a project to supply the neighborhood with drinking water | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | Bargaining | Beni Omar | Tunisia | June 30, 2022 |
| Bir El Hafi residents block the Sidi Bouzid-Bir El Hafi road to denounce the lack of medical staff in the local hospital | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Bir El Hafi | Tunisia | June 4, 2022 |
| Protesters block the Bizerte-Menzel Bourguiba road over the suspicious death of a young man | Collective / Informal group | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Road blockade, Tire burning | Other | N/A | Bizerte | Tunisia | August 27, 2022 |
| Municipal employees strike in Bizerte after the suspension of an employee, and the dismissal of another employee | Workers group: Public Sector | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Strike / Strike announcement | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Bizerte | Tunisia | November 13, 2021 |
| Workers at the ''Siko Frip''factory specialised in second-hand clothes start an open-ended sit-in outside Bizerte governorate to protest obstacles that prevent the factory to resume its work | Workers group: Other | Access to socio-eco rights: Social security and protection | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Bizerte | Tunisia | August 21, 2022 |
| Parents of students in a primary school in Bizerte stage a sit-in to protest the overcrowding of the school and to demand to accelerate the school maintenance to make more space available | Clan member | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Bizerte | Tunisia | September 22, 2022 |