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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Following President Kais Saied delacaration of freezing the patliament, lifting all MP's immunity and assuming the presidency of the executive, hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated in support of his decisions | Collective / Informal group | Policy grievances | Demonstration | Support to political leader / Public figure | N/A | Manouba, Siliana, Bizerte, TunisTozeur, Sousse, Monastir, El Kef, Sfax, Siliana, Kairouan, Nabeul, Sidi Bouzid, Gafsa | Tunisia | July 27, 2021 |
| Supporters of Ennahdha party demonstrated outside the gate of the Bardo Palace and tried to force their way into parliament | Political Party | Policy grievances | Demonstration, Building blockade / Occupation | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | Repression | Tunis | Tunisia | July 26, 2021 |
| Residents of Amdoun delegation rom Beja governorate demonstrated in front of the delegation's headquarters | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Demonstration | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Beja | Tunisia | August 4, 2021 |
| Clashes took place between residents of the town of Nasrallah, in the governorate of Kairouane and the police upon the organisation of a demonstration | Collective / Informal group | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Demonstration | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | Repression | Kairouane | Tunisia | August 5, 2021 |
| Theater teacher, Khoubaib Ayari Koubaib Ayari, protested in front of the governorate headquarters denouncing the deteriorating general situation in Beja on all fronts | Workers group: Other | Policy grievances | Demonstration | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Beja | Tunisia | July 6, 2021 |
| Dozens of mothers whose children went missing after irregular migration trips across the sea to Italy since 2011 held a protest outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tunis to demand disclosing the fate of their sons. | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Demonstration | Support of a cause, Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | August 17, 2021 |
| Leftlist political parties organized a demonstration calling for reopening the investigation into the 2013 assassinations in downtown Tunis. | Political Party | Policy grievances, Injustice / Perceived injustice | Demonstration | Support of a cause, Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | September 1, 2021 |
| A protest was held by "Manech Msalmin" (I do not give up) collective movement in Habib Bourguiba Avenue demanding to reopen the investigation into the 2013 political assassinations of opposition politicians Chokri Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi and the alleged | Collective / Informal group | Policy grievances, Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Support of a cause, Demands for rights / Services | Repression | Tunis | Tunisia | September 1, 2021 |
| Families and mothers of migrants missing in irregular migration staged a sit-in outside the Municipal Theatre in Tunis to demand truth about the fate of their children | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Demonstration | Support of a cause, Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | September 6, 2021 |