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 471 - 480 of 824
| Title | Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response | Location | Country |
Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Civil society activists stage a sit-in outside El Amra municipality to demand the dissolution of the municipal council that fail to improve social and environmental conditions | CSO | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | El Amra | Tunisia | May 12, 2022 |
| Employees of taxes and taxes collection offices in the governorate of Sidi Bouzid strike for 2 hours to demand Ministry of Finance the payment of a due grant | Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Strike / Strike announcement | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Sidi Bouzid | Tunisia | May 13, 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 |
| Local residents stage a sit-in outside Medenine University hospital to demand better health services | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Medenine | Tunisia | May 15, 2022 |
| Supporters of Ennahdha party, "Citizens against the Coup" movement, the "National Salvation Front" & several other political parties stage a sit-in against President Saied at Habib Bourguiba Avenue and demand his departure | Collective / Informal group, Political Party | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Revolutionary (seeking radical change across society / political system) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | May 15, 2022 |
| Free Destourian Party members demonstrate outside the International Union of Muslim Scholars in Tunis to demand its closure and to hold the corrupted accountable | Political Party | Policy grievances, Corruption and/ or lack of accountability | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | May 15, 2022 |
| Contract teachers start an open-ended sit-in in front of the headquarters of the regional delegation of Education in Sidi Bouzid to protest the delay in the payment of their salaries. | Workers group: School teachers / University professors | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Sidi Bouzid | Tunisia | May 16, 2022 |
| Employees of taxes and taxes collection offices in the governorate of Kasserine stage daily sit-ins outside their offices for one week to demand the Ministry of Finance the payment of a due grant | Workers group: Public Sector | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Kasserine | Tunisia | May 16, 2022 |
| Notaries stage a sit-in outside Justice Ministry in Tunis to protest the suspension of notaries as soon as a complaint is filed against them and demand to suspend notaries only when they are found guilty | Workers group: Public Sector | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | Bargaining | Tunis | Tunisia | May 19, 2022 |
| National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists and Union of Media organise a sit-in at Kasbah Square to denounce the procrastination of the authorities in the files of Cactus Prod and Radio Zitouna FM. | Workers group: Union / Syndicate, Workers group: Other | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Kasbah | Tunisia | May 20, 2022 |