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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Parliament executives protest denouncing the practice of Free Destourian Party leader Abir Moussa | Workers group: Public Sector | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Demonstration | Protest of a public statement / Public representation | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | March 19, 2021 |
Part-Time Health workers, stage a sit-in in Gafsa city, in demand for better work conditions. | Workers group: Healthcare workers | Access to socio-eco rights: Labour rights | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Gafsa | Tunisia | November 18, 2022 |
Partisans of President Saied demonstrate in downtown Tunis and in other major cities on the coast to support the measures taken by President Saied on July 25 and more recently on September 22 | Collective / Informal group | Other | Demonstration | Support to political leader / Public figure | N/A | Tunis, Sidi Bouzid, El Kef, Tozeur, Beja | Tunisia | October 3, 2021 |
Partisans of President Saied spontaneously gathered close by the Municipal Theater in Tunis to support the measures taken by President Saied on July 25 and more recently on September 22. | Collective / Informal group | Other | Demonstration | Support to political leader / Public figure | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | September 26, 2021 |
Peaceful protesters demonstrate against the 25 July Referendum in Avenue Habib Bourguiba on the call of the Civil Coalition for Freedom, Dignity, Social Justice and Equality | CSO | Policy grievances | Demonstration | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | Repression | Tunis | Tunisia | July 22, 2022 |
Peasants stage a sit-in between the states of Kebili and Gabes demanding the respect of dates purchase prices by the agents and owners. | Workers group: Agriculture workers | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Kebili and Gabes | Tunisia | October 22, 2022 |
People stage a sit-in in front of the state headquarters in support of the rights of taxi drivers. | Collective / Informal group | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Support of a cause | N/A | Gafsa | Tunisia | October 31, 2022 |
People stage a sit-in in Zarzis, as families of missing migrants in the sinking of a shipwreck off the city came out carrying symbolic coffins of their relatives demanding the bodies of their missing sons. | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Support of a cause | N/A | Zarzis | Tunisia | November 5, 2022 |
PhD holders stage a sit-in outside the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Tunis to demand to clarify and to resume negotiations on the employment perspectives for unemployed PhD holders | Workers group: Unemployed | Access to socio-eco rights: Social security and protection | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | March 24, 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 |