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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Protesters demonstrate in Jilma after a young man was killed by a customs guard | Collective / Informal group | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Demonstration | Other | Repression | Jilma | Tunisia | September 8, 2022 |
Joumine residents stage a sit-in to express their refusal of a project, demanding instead to set up a civil protection branch in the area | Collective / Informal group | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Joumine | Tunisia | August 2, 2022 |
Parents of students who successfully passed elementary school exams but are not accepted into a middle school due to an administrative decision stage a sit-in outside Kairouan governorate building | Clan member | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Kairouan | Tunisia | July 14, 2022 |
Teachers protesting in front of the state headquarters and hold sit-in inside the ministry of education to demand better working conditions. | Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | March | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Kairouan | Tunisia | October 10, 2022 |
Protesters demonstrate in the market in Kairouan to demand the provision of oil, flour and semolina and the intervention of local authorities | Collective / Informal group | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Demonstration | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Kairouan | Tunisia | April 3, 2022 |
Athletes, kids and teenagers demonstrate outside an indoor gymnasium in Kairouan to protest the decision to use this gymnasium for the July 25 referendum | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Demonstration | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Kairouan | Tunisia | June 11, 2022 |
Representatives of the General Union of Tunisian Students stage an open sit-in at the Higher Institute of Political Sciences in opposition to depriving some students of their access to university housing. | Students and/or student’s unions and clubs | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Kairouan | Tunisia | October 21, 2022 |
Protesters block the Kairouan-Shabikah road over drinking water cuts | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade, Tire burning | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Kairouan | Tunisia | July 18, 2022 |
Municipality employees in Kairouan strike after two of their colleagues falled from the second floor of the municipality and died while they were on duty | Workers group: Public Sector | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Kairouan | Tunisia | November 12, 2021 |
Farmers from Bouhajla stage a sit-in in front of the headquarters of the governorate of Kairouan to protest against the increase in feed barley prices | Workers group: Agriculture workers | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Kairouan | Tunisia | May 6, 2022 |