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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Actors / Mobilising structures | Cause/ Grievances/ Framing CA | Mode of action | Objective | State response | Location | Country | Date |
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Tozeur residents stage a sit-in outside the governorate's headquarters to protest bread shortage | Collective / Informal group | Policy grievances, Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Tozeur | Tunisia | August 29, 2022 |
Tozeur and Naftah residents stage a sit-in outside Tozeur governorate headquarters to demand the governor to resign and to denounce the accumulation of problems in the region and the lack of intervention | Collective / Informal group | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Tozeur | Tunisia | July 4, 2022 |
Thyna residents block the Gabes - Sfax road to protest the prolonged cut-off of drinking water | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Access to socio-eco rights: Basic rights / Services / Infrastructure | Road blockade | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Thyna | Tunisia | June 20, 2022 |
Theater teacher, Khoubaib Ayari Koubaib Ayari, protested in front of the governorate headquarters denouncing the deteriorating general situation in Beja on all fronts | Workers group: Other | Policy grievances | Demonstration | Reform (advocating for limited change in political; socio-economic...) | N/A | Beja | Tunisia | July 6, 2021 |
The wounded of the revolution and families of martyrs and wounded of the revolution start an open-ended sit-in outside the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights to demand to accelerate the application of Decree No. 97 | Affected group (inc. NIMBY) | Injustice / Perceived injustice | Sit-in | Support of a cause | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | March 12, 2022 |
The Workers' Party stages a sit-in outside the Municipal theatre in Sfax to demand the fall of the current corrupted system | Political Party | Policy grievances, Corruption and/ or lack of accountability | Sit-in | Revolutionary (seeking radical change across society / political system) | N/A | Tunisia | January 16, 2022 | |
The Workers' party stages a sit-in outside the Municipal Theater in Tunis to condemn the visit of the American delegation in Tunisia | Political Party | Regional / Political grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a public statement / Public representation | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | September 4, 2021 |
The Workers' party stage a sit-in outside the Municipal Theater in Tunis to denounce the exceptional measures decreed by the President on July 25 and the pre-25 July political system, They call for a "democracy from the people". | Political Party | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Protest of a policy / Governmental measure, Revolutionary (seeking radical change across society / political system) | N/A | Tunis | Tunisia | October 9, 2021 |
The Workers' Party in Gafsa stages a sit-in to commemorate the 11 anniversary of the flight of Ben Ali and to condemn the repression of the manifestations by the police in Tunis yesterday | Political Party | Access to socio-eco rights: Freedom of expression and assembly | Sit-in | Support of a cause, Protest of a policy / Governmental measure | N/A | Gafsa | Tunisia | January 15, 2022 |
The Workers Party stage a sit-in in the state of Sfax to protest the rising costs of living and the decrease in the standard of living. | Workers group: Union / Syndicate | Policy grievances | Sit-in | Demands for rights / Services | N/A | Sfax | Tunisia | October 23, 2022 |