List of protests in the 21st century
Appearance
This is a list of protests in the 21st century.
Revolutions and uprisings
Plants (Colour) revolutions
- Rose Revolution (Georgia, 2003)
- Tulip Revolution (Kyrgyzstan, 2005)
- Cedar Revolution (Lebanon, 2005)
- Orange Revolution (Ukraine, 2004–2005)
- Saffron Revolution (Myanmar, 2007)
Arab Spring
- 2010–2012 Algerian protests
- 2011 Bahraini uprising
- 2011 Turkish Cypriot protests
- 2011 Djiboutian protests
- 2011 Egyptian revolution
- 2011–2012 Jordanian protests
- 2011 Iraqi protests
- 2011 Lebanese protests
- First Libyan Civil War
- 2011–2012 Mauritanian protests
- 2011–2012 Moroccan protests
- 2011 Western Saharan protests
- 2011 Omani protests
- 2011–2012 Palestinian protests
- 2011–2012 Saudi Arabian protests
- 2011–2013 Sudanese protests
- Civil uprising phase of the Syrian civil war
- Tunisian Revolution
- Yemeni Revolution
Arab Winter
- 2012–2013 Egyptian protests
- Post-coup unrest in Egypt (2013–2014)
- 2012–2013 Iraqi protests
- 2015–2016 Iraqi protests
- 2013–2014 Tunisian political crisis
Second Arab Spring
- 2018 Tunisian protests
- 2018 Jordanian protests
- 2018 Iraqi protests
- (2018–2019): Sudanese Revolution
- 2019 Gaza economic protests
- 2019 Egyptian protests
- 2019–2021 Iraqi protests
- 17 October Revolution
- 2019–2021 Algerian protests
- 2021 Tunisian protests
2019–2022 Latin American protests
- 2018–2022 Haitian protests
- 2019 Bolivian protests
- 2019 Venezuelan protests
- 2019 Puerto Rican protests
- 2019 Ecuadorian protests
- 2019–2020 Colombian protests
- 2019–2022 Chilean protests
- 2020 Dominican protests
- 2020 Bolivian protests
- 2020 Peruvian protests
- 2020–2021 Argentinian protests
- 2021 Paraguayan protests
- 2021 Colombian protests
- 2021 Cuban protests
- 2021 Brazilian protests
- 2022 Ecuadorian protests
- 2022 Panamanian protests
- 2022–2023 Peruvian protests
Other
- (2000–2005, Palestine): Second Intifada
- (2001, Philippines): Second EDSA Revolution
- (2001, Philippines): EDSA III
- (2004–2019, Syria, Iraq, Turkey): Rojava conflict
- Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010
- (2013–2014, Ukraine): Euromaidan
- (2014): Abkhazian Revolution
- 2014 Burkinabé uprising
- 2017–2019 Romanian protests
- 2018 Armenian revolution
- 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests
- 2020–2021 Belarusian protests
- United States racial unrest (2020—present)
- 2020–2021 Bulgarian protests
- Serbian protests (2020–present)
- 2020–2021 Armenian protests
- 2021 Greek protests
- 2022 Sri Lankan protests
- 2022 Armenian protests
- 2021–2023 Myanmar protests
- 2022 Albanian protests
- 2022 Karakalpak protests
- 2022 North Macedonia protests
- 2022 Sierra Leone protests
- Mahsa Amini protests
- 2022 Mongolian protests
- 2023 Armenian protests
- 2024 Citizenship Amendment Act Protests in India
Specific issues
Anti-austerity
- 2016 Newfoundland and Labrador budget protests (Canada)
- Anti-austerity movement in Greece
- Anti-austerity movement in Ireland
- 2011 Rome demonstration
- 2012 Sicilian protests
- 2013 Italian social protests
- Anti-austerity movement in Portugal
- Anti-austerity movement in Spain
- Asturian miners' strike of 2012
- Anti-austerity movement in the United Kingdom
- 2019–2021 Lebanese protests
Anti-war
- Protests against the war in Afghanistan
- Protests against the Iraq War
- Protests regarding the Russo-Georgian War
- Protests against the 2011 military intervention in Libya
- 2014 anti-war protests in Russia
- Protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War
- Protests against the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
- Protests against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2023 Israel–Hamas war protests
- 2024 Israeli protests
Autonomy or independence
- 2005 Ahvaz unrest (Iran)
- Catalonia
- 2010 Catalan autonomy protest
- 2012 Catalan independence demonstration
- Catalan Way (2013)
- Catalan Way 2014
- Free Way to the Catalan Republic (2015)
- Go ahead, Catalan Republic (2016)
- National Day for Yes (2017)
- 2017 Catalan general strike
- Wake Up Europe! (2017)
- Fem la República Catalana (2018)
- 2019 Catalan general strike
- 2019–2020 Catalan protests
- Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
- 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
- Hong Kong
- 2016–2017 Kashmir unrest (India)
- Kurdistan
- 2019 Papua protests (Indonesia)
- March and Rally for Scottish Independence (2012–2013)
- Hirak Rif Movement (Morocco)
- Telangana movement (India)
- Gdeim Izik protest camp (Morocco)
- 2024 New Caledonia unrest (France)
Against elections
- 2003–2004 Armenian protests
- Protests against Faure Gnassingbé (Togo, 2005–2021)
- Jeans Revolution (Belarus, 2006)
- 2006 Mexican political crisis
- 2008 Armenian presidential election protests
- April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests
- 2009 Iranian presidential election protests
- 2010 Ucayali protests (Peru)
- 2011–2013 Russian protests
- Yo Soy 132 (Mexico, 2012)
- 2012 NIS public opinion manipulation scandal (South Korea)
- 2013 Venezuelan presidential election protests
- Malaysia's Post General Election rally 2013
- Protests against Donald Trump (United States, 2016–2020)
- Demonstrations in support of Donald Trump
- 2016–2017 Brazilian protests
- 2017 Serbian protests
- 2017–2018 Honduran protests
- Venezuelan presidential crisis
- 2018 Armenian revolution
- May 2019 Jakarta protests and riots
- 2019 Bolivian protests
- 2020 Kyrgyzstani protests
- 2020–2021 Belarusian protests
- January 6 United States Capitol attack
- 2022 Brazilian election protests
Post-Arab Spring protests
- 2016 Tunisian protests
- 2018 Tunisian protests
- 2013–2014 Tunisian political crisis
- 2019 Egyptian protests
- 2020 Egyptian protests
- 2012–2013 Egyptian protests
- Post-coup unrest in Egypt (2013–2014)
- 2019–2021 Algerian protests
- 2018 Jordanian protests
- 2018–2019 Gaza border protests
- 2019 Gaza economic protests
- Sudanese Revolution
- 2019–2022 Sudanese protests
- 2019–2021 Lebanese protests
- 2015–2016 Lebanese protests
- 2019–2021 Iraqi protests
- 2012–2013 Iraqi protests
- 2015–2018 Iraqi protests
- 2020 Libyan protests
- Bahrain Tamarod
- Hirak Rif Movement
- 2021 Tunisian protests
Women's rights
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- March for Women's Lives (2004) (United States)
- Ni una menos (Argentina, 2015–2021)
- NiUnaMenos (Peru, 2016)
- 2017 Women's March (United States)
- Protests against Executive Order 13769 (United States, 2017)
- Ele Não movement (Brazil, 2018)
- 2018 Chilean feminist protests and strikes
- It also happens here (Mexico, 2018)
- 2018 Spanish women's strike
- 2018 Women's March (United States)
- 2019 Women's March (United States)
- Vanitha Mathil (India, 2019)
- 2019 Swiss women's strike (Switzerland)
- 2019 feminist protests in Mexico
- 2020 feminist protests in Mexico
- 2020–2021 women's strike protests in Poland
- Mahsa Amini Protests (Iran, September 2022)
Pro-life
- March for Life and Family (Poland, 2007–2009)
- March for Life (Prague) (Czech Republic, 2001–2014)
- March for Life (Paris) (France, 2005–2019)
- March for Life (Washington, D.C.) (United States, 2000–2021)
- Salvemos las dos Vidas (Argentina, 2017–2020)
Student protests
- (Canada): 2005 Quebec student protests
- 2006 student protests in Chile
- 2007 Brazilian student protests
- 2007–2009 university protests in France
- (2007, South Africa): #FeesMustFall
- (2008, Netherlands): Dutch pupil strike
- 2008 student protests in Chile
- 2009 student protests in Austria
- 2009 student protests in Croatia
- 2009 German student protests
- (Ireland): 2010 student protest in Dublin
- 2010 United Kingdom student protests
- 2010–2011 University of Puerto Rico strikes
- 2011 Colombian student protests
- 2011–2013 Chilean student protests
- (2012, Hong Kong): Moral and National Education controversy
- (Canada): 2012 Quebec student protests
- 2012 Spanish general educational strike
- 2014 Hong Kong class boycott campaign
- 2014, Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
- (2014, Taiwan): Sunflower Student Movement
- (2015, South Africa): #RhodesMustFall
- (Canada): 2015 Quebec student protests
- 2015 Bangladesh student protests against VAT on education
- (2015, Taiwan): Anti-Black Box Curriculum Movement
- (2015, Malaysia): Tangkap Najib rally
- (2015–2016, Japan): SEALDs (Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy)
- (2015–2016, United States of America): 2015–2016 University of Missouri protests
- 2016 student protests in Brazil
- 2018 Bangladesh road-safety protests
- (Mexico): 2018 UNAM protests
- 2018 student protests in Colombia
- 2018–2019 student protest in Albania
- 2019 student protests in Brazil
- 2019 student protests in Costa Rica
- 2019 medical student protests in Ecuador
- (Turkey): 2021 Boğaziçi University protests
- September 2022 Iranian protests
- 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
Other protests by country
International
- Anti-Japanese protests
- Black Lives Matter
- Extinction Rebellion (XR)
- 2018–2019 Gaza border protests
- 15 October 2011 global protests
- May Day
- Ni una menos
- Occupy movement
- Protests against Donald Trump
- Pro-immigrants protests
- Anti-immigrants protests
- School strike for climate / Fridays for Future (FFF)
- Protests over responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
- 2020 Brazilian protests
- 2021 Brazilian protests
- 2020 Czech anti-lockdown protests
- Protests over COVID-19 policies in Germany
- COVID-19 protests in the Netherlands
- COVID-19 anti-lockdown protests in New Zealand
- 2020 Serbian protests
- 2020 United States anti-lockdown protests
- COVID-19 anti-lockdown protests in the United Kingdom
- 2022 COVID-19 protests in China
- Strikes during the COVID-19 pandemic
- 2023 Israel–Hamas war protests
National
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- 2011 Albanian opposition demonstrations
- 2017 Albanian opposition protest
- National Theatre protest in Albania (2018–2020)
- 2019–2021 Albanian political crisis
- Algeria
- Black Spring (Algeria)
- 2010–2012 Algerian protests
- 2019–2021 Algerian protests
- 2021 Algerian protests
- Argentina
- December 2001 riots in Argentina
- 2008 Argentine agrarian strike
- September 2012 cacerolazo in Argentina
- 8N (2012)
- 18A (2013)
- 2013 police revolts in Argentina
- 13N (Argentina) (2014)
- 18F (demonstration) (2015)
- 2016 Tarifazo in Argentina
- Federal March in Argentina of 2016
- March 2017 Argentine protests
- 21F (Argentina) (2018)
- 17A (2020)
- 2020–2021 Argentinian protests
- 2023 Jujuy protests
- Armenia
- 2003–2004 Armenian protests
- 2008 Armenian presidential election protests
- 2011 Armenian protests
- Mashtots Park Movement (2012)
- 2013 Armenian protests
- Electric Yerevan (2015)
- 2018 Armenian revolution
- October 2018 protests in Armenia
- 2020–2021 Armenian protests
- 2022 Armenian protests
- 2023 Armenian protests
- Azerbaijan
- 2003 Azerbaijani protests
- 2011 Azerbaijani protests
- 2013 Baku protests
- 2016 Azerbaijani protests
- 2019 Baku protests
- July 2020 Azerbaijani protests
- Bangladesh
- 2013 Shahbag protests
- 2015 Bangladesh student protests against VAT on education
- 2018 Bangladesh quota reform movement
- 2018 Bangladesh road-safety protests
- 2018–2019 Bangladesh protests and unrest
- 2020 Bangladesh protests
- Belarus
- Jeans Revolution
- 2010 Belarusian protests
- 2011 Belarusian protests
- Teddybear Airdrop Minsk 2012
- 2017 Belarusian protests
- 2019 Belarusian protests
- 2020–2021 Belarusian protests
- Belize
- Bolivia
- 2008 unrest in Bolivia
- 2011 Bolivian indigenous rights protests
- 2019 Bolivian protests
- 2020 Bolivian protests
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- 2013 protests in Brazil
- 2014 protests in Brazil
- 2015–2016 protests in Brazil
- 2017 Brazilian general strike
- 2018 Brazil truck drivers' strike
- 2019 Brazilian general strike
- 2020 Brazilian oil tankers strike
- 2020 Brazilian protests
- 2021 Brazilian protests
- Bulgaria
- 2011 Bulgaria antiziganist protests
- 2013 Bulgarian protests against the first Borisov cabinet
- 2013–2014 Bulgarian protests against the Oresharski cabinet
- 2020–2021 Bulgarian protests
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- 2010 Canada anti-prorogation protests
- Idle No More (2012)
- 2020 Canadian pipeline and railway protests
- 2022 Canada Convoy protest
- Chad
- Chile
- 2006 student protests in Chile
- 2008 student protests in Chile
- 2011 Magallanes protests
- 2012 Aysén protests
- 2019–2021 Chilean protests
- China
- 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests
- Wukan protests (2011)
- Jasic Incident (2018)
- 2022 COVID-19 protests in China
- Colombia
- 2013 Colombian coffee growers strike
- 2013 Colombian agrarian strike
- 2019–2020 Colombian protests
- Javier Ordóñez protests
- 2021 Colombian protests
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Czech Republic
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- 2012 Ecuadorian protests
- 2015 Ecuadorian protests
- 2019 Ecuadorian protests
- 2020 Ecuadorian protests
- 2022 Ecuadorian protests
- Egypt
- 2008 Egyptian general strike
- Egyptian revolution of 2011
- 2012–2013 Egyptian protests
- June 2013 Egyptian protests
- Post-coup unrest in Egypt (2013–2014)
- 2019 Egyptian protests
- 2020 Egyptian protests
- Estonia
- Bronze Night (2007)
- Enough of False Policy (2012)
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- France
- 2005 French riots
- 2010 French pension reform strikes
- Republican marches (2015)
- 2015 Corsican protests
- Nuit debout (2016)
- 2017 French riots
- Protests against Emmanuel Macron (2017–2020)
- 2021–2022 social unrest in the French West Indies
- 2022 Corsica unrest
- 2023 French pension reform strikes
- 2024 Mayotte crisis
- Gabon
- Georgia
- Rose Revolution
- 2007 Georgian demonstrations
- 2009 Georgian demonstrations
- 2011 Georgian protests
- 2012 Georgian protests
- 2019–2020 Georgian protests
- 2023 Georgian protests
- Germany
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Hong Kong 1 July marches (2003)
- December 2005 protest for democracy in Hong Kong
- Anti-Hong Kong Express Rail Link movement (2009)
- Hong Kong new year marches (January 2010, January 2013)
- 2010 Hong Kong democracy protests
- 2014 Hong Kong protests
- 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests
- Hungary
- 2006 protests in Hungary
- Hungarian protests of 2011
- 2014 Hungarian Internet tax protests
- 2018 protests in Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Amarnath land transfer controversy
- 2006 Indian anti-reservation protests
- 2006 Dalit protests in Maharashtra
- 2010 Kashmir unrest
- 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement
- Indian general strike of 2016
- 2016–2017 Kashmir unrest
- 2016 Manipur unrest
- 2017 pro-jallikattu protests
- April 2018 caste protests in India
- Citizenship Amendment Act protests (2019–2020)
- 2019–2024 Amaravati protests
- 2020 Kashmiri protests
- 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest
- 2023 Manipur violence
- 2024 Indian farmers' protest
- Indonesia
- November 2016 Jakarta protests
- December 2016 Jakarta protests
- February 2017 Jakarta protests
- 2019 Indonesian protests and riots
- Indonesia omnibus bill protests
- Iran
- 2011–2012 Iranian protests
- 2017–2018 Iranian protests
- 2018–2019 Iranian general strikes and protests
- 2019–2020 Iranian protests
- 2022–2023 Iranian protests
- Iraq
- Israel
- 2006 Israeli reserve soldiers' protest
- Cottage cheese boycott (2011)
- 2011 Israeli social justice protests
- July 2019 Ethiopian Jews protest in Israel
- Protests against Benjamin Netanyahu (2020–2021)
- 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests
- Italy
- No Berlusconi Day (2009)
- 2012 Sicilian protests
- 2013 Italian social protests
- Sardines movement (2019–2020)
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Tulip Revolution
- Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010
- 2013 Kyrgyzstani protests
- 2019 Kyrgyz protests
- 2020 Kyrgyzstani protests
- Lebanon
- 2006–2008 Lebanese protests
- 2011 Lebanese protests
- 2015–2016 Lebanese protests
- 2019–2021 Lebanese protests
- Libya
- Macau
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- 2007 Bersih rally
- 2007 HINDRAF rally
- Bersih 2.0 rally (2011)
- Bersih 3.0 rally (2012)
- People's Uprising rally, 2013
- Tangkap Najib rally (2015)
- Bersih 4 rally (2015)
- Bersih 5 rally (2016)
- Mali
- Malta
- Mauritania
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- 2008 protest against Kosovo declaration of independence
- 2015–2016 Montenegrin crisis
- 2019 Montenegrin anti-corruption protests
- 2019–2020 clerical protests in Montenegro
- 2021 Montenegrin nationality law protests
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Saffron Revolution (2007–2008)
- 2021 Myanmar protests
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- 2011 Macedonian protests
- 2015 Macedonian protests
- 2016 Macedonian protests
- 2022 North Macedonia protests
- Pakistan
- Lawyers' Movement (2007)
- Long March (2013)
- 2014 Azadi March
- Inqilab March (2014)
- 2017 Faizabad sit-in
- 2019 Azadi March
- 2021 Pakistani protests
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Moqueguazo (2008)
- 2009 Peruvian political crisis
- 2010 Peruvian coca growers strike
- 2017–present Peruvian political crisis
- Philippines
- Second EDSA Revolution
- Million People March (2013)
- Burial of Ferdinand Marcos (2016)
- Protests against Rodrigo Duterte (2016–2021)
- Protests against Bongbong Marcos
- Poland
- December 2016 Polish protests
- Protests against Polish judiciary reforms (2017)
- 2018 Polish protests
- Rainbow Night (2020)
- Puerto Rico
- Romania
- Russia
- Dissenters' March (2005–2008)
- Strategy-31 (2009)
- 2009–2010 Kaliningrad protests
- 2011–2013 Russian protests
- 2017–2018 Russian protests
- 2018 Russian pension protests
- 2018–2019 Ingushetia protests
- 2019 Moscow protests
- 2020–2021 Khabarovsk protests
- 2021 Russian protests
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- 2008 protests against Kosovo declaration of independence
- 2016 Serbian protests
- 2017 Serbian protests
- 2018–2020 Serbian protests
- July 2020 Serbian protests
- 2021–2022 Serbian environmental protests
- Slovakia
- Murder of Ján Kuciak (2018)
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- Western Cape 2012 Farm Workers' strike
- FeesMustFall (2015–2016)
- 2019 service delivery protests
- 2021 South African unrest
- 2023 South African National Shutdown
- South Korea
- 2008 US beef protest in South Korea
- 2016–2017 South Korean protests
- Taegukgi rallies (2016–2018)
- 2018–2019 South Korean protests
- Spain
- 2010 Spanish general strike
- Anti-austerity movement in Spain
- 2017–2018 Spanish constitutional crisis
- 2024 Anti-tourism protests in Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go (2006)
- 1025 rally to safeguard Taiwan (2008)
- 517 Protest (2009)
- Sunflower Student Movement (2014)
- Thailand
- 2005–2006 Thai political crisis
- 2008 Thai political crisis
- 2009 Thai political unrest
- 2010 Thai political protests
- 2013–2014 Thai political crisis
- 2020–2021 Thai protests
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Tunisian Revolution
- 2013–2014 Tunisian political crisis
- 2016 Tunisian protests
- 2021 Tunisian protests
- Turkey
- Republic protests (2007)
- Gezi Park protests (2013)
- 2017 March for Justice
- Ukraine
- Ukraine without Kuchma (2000–2001)
- Orange Revolution
- Rise up, Ukraine! (2013)
- 2014 Ukrainian Revolution
- No to capitulation! (2019–2020)
- United Kingdom
- 2011 London anti-cuts protest
- 2011 England riots
- Belfast City Hall flag protests (2012)
- Balcombe drilling protest (2013)
- 2016–2019 United Kingdom rail strikes
- Kenmure Street protests (2021)
- Camp Beagle protest (2021-present)
- Vandalism of Stonehenge
- United States
- 2015 Armenian March for Justice
- 2011 United States public employee protests
- Tea Party protests (2009)
- Occupy Wall Street (2011)
- 2011 Wisconsin protests
- Protests against Donald Trump (2015–2020)
- 2018 United States gun violence protests
- 2018–2019 education workers' strikes in the United States
- Indigenous Peoples March (2019)
- George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul (2020)
- Breonna Taylor protests
- 2020–2021 United States election protests
- 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
- Uzbekistan
- Venezuela
- Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003
- 2007 RCTV protests
- 2013 Venezuelan presidential election protests
- Venezuelan protests (2014–present)
- Mother of All Marches (2017)
- Venezuelan presidential crisis
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe