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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Five employees of a catering company in Tataouine enter their third day of hunger strike to demand job continuity and the payment of their dues | Workers group: Other | Corporate grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Hunger Strike | Demands for rights / Services | Bargaining | Tataouine | Tunisia | November 28, 2021 |
Unemployed in Kasserine enter their tenth day of sit-in 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 | Kasserine | Tunisia | November 28, 2021 |
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 |
Phosphate miners and activists close public institutions and block the Gafsa-Sfax road and the railway in Meknassy and Menzel Bouzaiane in a joint movement to demand to return to work in phosphate mines and to release activists from Menzel Bouzaiane | Workers group: Other, Collective / Informal group | Injustice / Perceived injustice, Access to socio-eco rights: Social security and protection | Road blockade, Building blockade / Occupation | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure, Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Meknassy, Menzel Bouzaiane | Tunisia | November 29, 2021 |
Protestors who were injured by outlawed shotguns stage a sit-in outside the Governorate building in Siliana to demand truth, justice and indemnities | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Siliana | Tunisia | November 29, 2021 |
Unemployed in Gabes demonstrate to protest against the decision of President Saied to cancel Law No. 38 of 2020 | Workers group: Unemployed | Policy grievances | Demonstration | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Gabes | Tunisia | November 30, 2021 |
Railway workers strike to demand their wages payment. | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Public Sector | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | Bargaining | Tunisia | December 1, 2021 | |
Family members of the unemployed who have entered their eleventh day of sit-in in the Kasserine governorate building demonstrate to demand authorities to employ their relatives | Clan member | Access to socio-eco rights: Social security and protection | Demonstration | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Kasserine | Tunisia | December 1, 2021 |
Unemployed in Sousse start a hunger strike at the regional delegation of education to protest against the decision of President Saied to cancel Law No. 38 of 2020 | Workers group: Unemployed | Policy grievances | Hunger Strike | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Sousse | Tunisia | December 1, 2021 |
Protesters demonstrate in Kairouan governorate over an investor project to dig a sandpit that will harm agricultural production | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Environmental rights and services | Demonstration | Demands for rights / Services | Repression | Kairouan | Tunisia | December 2, 2021 |