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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Unemployed graduates stage a sit-in outside Tunis Municipal Theatre to demand job opportunities | Workers group: Unemployed | Access to socio-eco rights: Social security and protection | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | September 8, 2022 |
Injured victims of the 2011 revolution organized a sit-in calling for their official recognition by the state as victims | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in, Hunger Strike | Support of a cause | Bargaining | Tunis | Tunisia | January 6, 2021 |
The Free Constitutional Party continues its sit-in in front of the headquarters of the Union of Muslim Scholars in Tunis | Political Party | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a public statement / Public representation | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | March 10, 2021 |
Contract teachers stage a sit-in outside the Ministry of Education to demand full-time positions and better working conditions | Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | June 14, 2022 |
Unemployed stage a sit-in on Habib Bourguiba avenue in Tunis to protest against the decision of President Saied to cancel Law No. 38 of 2020 | Workers group: Unemployed | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | November 19, 2021 |
Journalists, photojournalists and employees of Tunisian Television start an open-ended sit-in to express their attachment to the independence of its editorial line and to denounce any attempts by ruling power to intervene in newsroom work | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Other | Access to socio-eco rights: Freedom of expression and assembly | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | March 21, 2022 |
Workers' Party members stage a sit-in in front of the Municipal Theatre in Tunis in solidarity with the Palestinian people and call on the Tunisian state to criminalise normalisation with Israel by a law | Political Party | Regional / Political grievances | Sit-in | Support of a cause | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | April 23, 2022 |
Activists are arrested and prevented from staging a demonstration to demand the criminalisation of the normalisation with Israel | CSO | Regional / Political grievances | Demonstration | Support of a cause | Repression | Tunis | Tunisia | May 14, 2022 |
General Union of Post offices start an open-ended sit-in to demand resumption of negotiations to have better workings 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 | Tunis | Tunisia | March 16, 2022 |
A mass rally was held in Tunis to support Palestine | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Political Party | Regional / Political grievances | Demonstration | Support of a cause | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | May 15, 2021 |