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 661 - 670 of 824
| Title | Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response |
Location |
Country | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radio journalists stage a sit-in outside the Tunisian National Radio building to demand a reform of the institution | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Other | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | May 25, 2022 |
| Several hundred employees from state companies stage a sit-in in front of the UGTT’s headquarters in Tunisin support of the general strike to protest against the government’s economic reform plans which include privatisation, and the freezing of salaries | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | June 16, 2022 |
| National Board of Tobacco and Matches employees in Tunis start a three-day-long strike to demand the disbursement of a productivity grant, the regularisation of contract workers and other labour rights | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | December 27, 2021 |
| The Women and Youth Department of the Tunisian General Labor Union organize a sit-in outside the Municipal Theater in Tunis to demand the Tunisian State to ratify Convention No. 190 issued by the International Labour to eliminate violence against women i | Workers group: Union / Syndicate | Access to socio-eco rights: Gender equality and inclusion | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | March 6, 2021 |
| Feminist activists from several local and international NGOs march in downtown Tunis to mark the opening of the third World Women's Conference of Grassroots Women hosted by the country | CSO | Access to socio-eco rights: Gender equality and inclusion | March | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | September 4, 2022 |
| Tunisian engineers announce a strike extending over 5 days to protest the government's failure to meet their pronounced demands | Workers group: Public Sector | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | March 29, 2021 |
| Tunisia's Judges Association organises a sit-in outside the Court of Cassation in Tunis against the Interim Supreme Judicial Council which was appointed by President Saied after the dissolution of the Supreme Judicial Council | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector, CSO | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | February 24, 2022 |
| Lawyers demonstrated in courts to express their opposition to the Finance Law of 2023. | Workers group: Union / Syndicate | Policy grievances | Demonstration | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | January 6, 2023 |
| "Citizens against Coup" organise a march towards Parliament to demand return to constitutional order, cancellation of exceptional measures taken by the President, release of "political prisoners" and to denounce difficult living conditions and shortage of | Collective / Informal group, Political Party, CSO | Policy grievances | Demonstration | Revolutionary (seeking radical change across society / political system) | Repression | Tunis | Tunisia | March 20, 2022 |
| Tunisian Union of Agriculture organises a sit-in to protest the government's procrastination in addressing their demands to restructure the union and the sector | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Agriculture workers | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | May 12, 2022 |