Increase in Employment Demand Movements

A report by the Tunisian Social Observatory, affiliated with the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights, stated on Monday that January 2025 witnessed an increase in the number of social movements and the pace of protests demanding employment compared to January 2024. The Tunisian Social Observatory mentioned in its January 2025 report that social actors organized movements at a greater pace during January 2025 compared to the same month in 2024, adding that their movements focused on calling for the regularization of professional situations, the elimination of precarious work, the right to recruitment, and an end to unemployment. The Observatory counted 386 movements in January 2025, compared to 137 movements during the same period last year, describing this trend as "upward" since the last quarter of last year, which saw an increase in the social movement outcome. The Tunisian Social Observatory concluded that the beginning of this year witnessed what it considered a "return of movement and demands" in contrast to last year, which recorded a decline in the pace of social movements. It pointed out the decline in social actors' reliance on the virtual space as a primary framework for protest or demands, with only 104 out of their total protest frameworks. These were distributed among calls through media, statements, and petitions, in contrast to the increase in field and official space movements, which constituted 81.53% of protest frameworks. Protest sit-ins were used on 100 occasions, sit-ins on 50 occasions, strikes on 44 occasions, hunger strikes on 17 occasions, and activity disruptions on 13 occasions.