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 121 - 130 of 824
Title | Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response | Location | Country | Date |
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National Anti-Corruption Agency employees resume their sit-in outside the Presidential Palace to demand the regularisation of their professional situation | Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | Repression | Carthage | Tunisia | March 21, 2022 |
Unemployed stage a sit-in in front of the Presidential Palace in Carthage to demand the President of the Republic to activate the provisions of Law No. 38 of 2020 | Workers group: Unemployed | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Social security and protection | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Carthage | Tunisia | September 30, 2021 |
Families of missing migrants who disappeared while trying to emigrate demonstrate outside the Presidential Palace in Cartaghe to demand authorities to demand disclosing the fate of their relatives | Clan member | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Demonstration | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Carthage | Tunisia | November 4, 2021 |
Students stage a sit-in in front of the presidential palace. | Students and/or student’s unions and clubs | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | Bargaining | Carthage Palace. | Tunisia | October 15, 2022 |
The General Union of Media and the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists stage a sit-in in Casbah to protest the forced closure of media companies | Workers group: Union / Syndicate | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Casbah | Tunisia | October 13, 2022 |
Chanchou residents block the Gafsa-El Hammar road to protest drinking water cuts and to demand to tarmac a road | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | Bargaining | Chanchou | Tunisia | September 1, 2022 |
Parents of students stage a sit-in outside a primary school in Chebika to demand stakeholders to take legal action against a teacher who harassed a student | Clan member | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Chebika | Tunisia | May 4, 2022 |
Chouigui residents block the Terbouba - Mateur road to protest a two-month-long cut-off of drinking water | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | Repression | Chouigui | Tunisia | April 14, 2022 |
Dahmani residents stage a sit-in to protest the authorities' failure to provide them with drinking water and pump water despite what they pledged | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | Repression | Dahmani | Tunisia | June 22, 2022 |
Dhrabnia residents block the Kairouan-Tunis road over drinking water cut | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Dhrabnia | Tunisia | July 11, 2022 |