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 91 - 100 of 824
Title | Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response | Location | Country | Date |
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Health workers in Beja stage a sit-in to demand their wages for January | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Healthcare workers | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Beja | Tunisia | January 26, 2022 |
Unemployed stage a sit-in in Beja 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 | Beja | Tunisia | October 13, 2021 |
Agricultural contract workers start an open-ended sit-in at the headquarters of the Regional Delegation of Agriculture in Beja to demand the regularization of their employment status | Workers group: Agriculture workers | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Beja | Tunisia | January 19, 2022 |
Local residents block the Beja - Teboursouk road to protest the prolonged cut-off of drinking water | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Beja | Tunisia | April 4, 2022 |
Employees of the Office of Forestry and Pastoral Development in the Northwest demonstrate at the headquarters of the General Administration in Beja to demand career advancement and to protest against corruption in the agency | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights, Corruption and/ or lack of accountability | Demonstration | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Beja | Tunisia | November 29, 2021 |
An open sit-in was launched by workers of the Mecaprotec Aéro Company denouncing the series of the recent aribtrary expulsion of employees | Workers group: Other | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Ben Arous | Tunisia | February 4, 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 |
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 in factories which need sugar as a raw material stage a sit-in outside Ben Arous governorate headquarters on call of the trade union branch for Food Industries, Tourism, Trade and Handicrafts to protest sugar shortage | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Other | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Ben Arous | Tunisia | August 26, 2022 |
Protesters demonstrated in front of the First Instance Court of Ben Arous calling for the release of all those arrested in the recent protest demonstrations | Collective / Informal group, CSO | Access to socio-eco rights: Freedom of expression and assembly | Demonstration | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Ben Arous | Tunisia | January 28, 2021 |