FTDES logged over 1,000 protest actions in Tunisia in August, led for the first time by water and power cuts

The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights recorded 1,093 protest actions in August, more than triple the same month last year, with its social observatory saying access to water and electricity topped the list of grievances for the first time, at 42 percent of all actions. Civil and political rights, driven largely by prison conditions and detainee deaths, followed close behind at 39 percent, while labour and employment protests fell by more than a third from July.

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