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Protests against responses to the COVID-19 pandemic Part of the COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 misinformation and COVID-19 misinformation by governments An anti- lockdown protest at Queen's Park in Toronto, Canada, on 25 April 2020 Date 15 March 2020 – 5 December 2022 (2 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 6 days) Location Worldwide Caused by Local struggles or opposition to government responses to ...
Protests began in Ohio on April 9, with about 75 gathering outside of the Ohio Statehouse to protest Governor Mike DeWine's stay-at-home order. A second protest on April 13 grew to a group of 200–300 people. [71] The following weekend, protests began on April 17, with dozens protesting outside the east side of the Statehouse. [72]
The motivation behind the 2020 protests are similar to that of the 2019 protests. Many Egyptians had been discontent towards the government because of police brutality [13] and the economic issues the country had been facing as a result of the 2016 austerity measures; [5] [9] in 2020, almost 70% of the Egyptian population lived under the poverty line. [5]
The protest was all the more notable because it took place in Xinjiang, where the Chinese government denies accusations of human rights abuses against the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group. Most ...
French farmers maintained a series of nationwide protests on Saturday, arguing government measures announced to quell the demonstrations did not go far enough to meet their demands for better pay ...
In one of the largest student-led demonstrations against Proposition 187, more than 10,000 young people walked out from more than 30 campuses in the Los Angeles Unified School District. [23] The protest was held without endorsement by any official groups; instead, students had been encouraged to stay in school and stage sit-ins as an ...
Protests are a regular feature of American politics, including at the homes of prominent lawmakers, but legal experts believe the demonstrations outside justices’ homes may be against the law. A ...
The Wisconsin Walleye War became the name for late 20th-century events in Wisconsin in protest of Ojibwe (Chippewa) hunting and fishing rights. In a 1975 case, the tribes challenged state efforts to regulate their hunting and fishing off the reservations, based on their rights in the treaties of St. Peters (1837) and La Pointe (1842).