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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Municipal agents in Beja take part in the national 2-day strike and stage a sit-in to demand better working conditions | 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 | Beja | Tunisia | February 21, 2022 |
| Protesters block the Bizerte - Beja road over water cuts | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Beja | Tunisia | January 7, 2022 |
| Employees of the Survey and Land Registration office in Beja start a two-day-long strike to demand the implementation of agreed-upon agreements | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Beja | Tunisia | January 12, 2022 |
| Retired contract workers stage a sit-in in front of Beja governorate headquarters to recover the money owed to them | Workers group: Retirees | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Social security and protection | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Beja | Tunisia | October 21, 2021 |
| Tunisian Sugar Company workers stage a demonstration in Beja outside the factory to demand to go back to work | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Other | Corporate grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Beja | Tunisia | February 21, 2022 |
| 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 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 |
| Civil society representatives and youth gathered in front of the Ben Arous Court of First Instance to demand justice and accountability on the occasion of the 4th anniversary of Omar Laabidi murder | Collective / Informal group, CSO | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Ben Arous | Tunisia | March 31, 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 |
| 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 |