List of protests in the 21st century

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

Other Arab uprisings

• 2012–2013 Egyptian protests
• Post-coup unrest in Egypt (2013–2014)
• 2012–2013 Iraqi protests
• 2015–2018 Iraqi protests
• 2013–2014 Tunisian political crisis

• 2018 Tunisian protests
• 2018 Jordanian protests
• 2018 Iraqi protests
• Sudanese Revolution (2018–19)
• 2019 Gaza economic protests
• 2019 Egyptian protests
• 2019–2021 Iraqi protests
• 17 October Revolution
• 2019–21 Algerian revolution
• 2021 Tunisian protests
• 2021 Palestinian protests

2019–2022 Latin American protests

• 2018–2022 Haitian protests
• 2019 Bolivian revolution
• 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

Gen Z protests (2020–present)

2020 protests

• 2020 Nigerian protests

2022 protests

• 2022 Sri Lankan protests

2024 protests

• 2024 Bangladeshi protests
• 2024 Hungarian protests
• 2024 Kenyan protests

2025 protests in Africa

• 2025 Cameroonian protests
• 2025 Malagasy protests
• 2025 Moroccan protests
• 2025 Mozambican protests
• 2025 Tanzanian protests
• 2025 Togolese protests

2025 protests in Asia

• 2025 Burmese protests
• 2025 Japanese protests
• 2025 Korean protests
• 2025 Indonesian protests
• 2025 Malaysian protests
• 2025 Maldivian protests
• 2025 Mongolian protests
• 2025 Nepalese protests
• 2025 Philippine protests
• 2025 Thai protests
• 2025 Timorese protests

2025 protests in Europe

• 2025 Bulgarian protests
• 2025 French protests
• 2025 Georgian protests
• 2025 Greek protests
• 2025 Italian protests
• 2025 Macedonian protests
• 2025 Romanian protests
• 2025 Serbian protests
• 2025 Turkish protests

2025 protests in Latin America

• 2025 Mexican protests
• 2025 Paraguayan protests
• 2025 Peruvian protests

2025 protests in the Middle East

• 2025 Iranian protests

2026 protests

• 2026 Ugandan 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 (2020–2023)
• 2020–2021 Bulgarian protests
• 2020–2021 Armenian protests
• 2021 Greek 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
• 2025 Gaza Strip anti-Hamas protests

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 in Canada against the Sri Lankan Civil War
• 2013 anti-Sri Lanka protests
• Protests against the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis
• Protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Gaza war protests
• Israeli hostage deal protests

Autonomy or independence

• 2005 Ahvaz unrest (Iran)
• Catalonia

Ginger support protest

• 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 Catalan protests
• Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
• 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
• Hong Kong
• 2014 Hong Kong protests
• 2016 Mong Kok civil unrest
• 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests
• 2016–2017 Kashmir unrest (India)
• Kurdistan
• December 2009 Kurdish protests in Turkey
• 2011 Kurdish protests in Iraq
• 2011–2012 Kurdish protests in Turkey
• 2014 Kobanî protests
• 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)
• Ladakh protests (India)

Against elections

• 2003–2004 Armenian protests
• Protests against Faure Gnassingbé (Togo, 2005–2021)
• Jeans Revolution (Belarus, 2006)
• 2008 Armenian presidential election protests
• April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests
• 2009 Iranian presidential election 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
• 2021 Russian election protests
• 2022 Brazilian election protests
• 2024 Indonesian local election law protests
• 2024–2025 Mozambican protests

Arab Summer (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
• 2025 Gaza Strip anti-Hamas protests

Women's rights

• 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
• (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)
• 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
• 2007–2009 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
• (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
• 2014 Hong Kong class boycott campaign
• 2014, Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
• (2014, Taiwan): Sunflower Student Movement
• (2015, South Africa): #RhodesMustFall
• (Canada):
• 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
• (Turkey): 2021 Boğaziçi University protests
• September 2022 Iranian protests
• 2022 Indonesian student protests
• 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
• 2025 Indonesian student protests
• 2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests

Other protests by country

International

• Anti-Japanese protests
• 2005 anti-Japanese demonstrations
• 2012 China anti-Japanese demonstrations
• Black Lives Matter
• George Floyd protests
• Extinction Rebellion (XR)
• 2018–2019 Gaza border protests
• 15 October 2011 global protests
• May Day
• 2009 May Day protests
• 2012 May Day protests
• 2013 May Day protests
• 2014 May Day protests
• 2015 May Day protests
• 2017 May Day protests
• 2025 May Day protests
• Ni una menos
• NiUnaMenos (Peru)
• Occupy movement
• Protests against Donald Trump
• 2017 Women's March
• Protests against Executive Order 13769
• 2018 Women's March
• 2019 Women's March
• 2020 Women's March
• People's March
• Pro-immigrants protests
• Baxter protests
• 2006 United States immigration reform protests
• Day Without Immigrants 2017
• Protest "Volem acollir"
• Protests against the Trump administration family separation policy
• Citizenship Amendment Act protests
• Anti-immigrants protests
• Russian marches
• 2015 Geldermalsen riot
• 2018 Chemnitz protests
• 2024 United Kingdom riots
• School strike for climate / Fridays for Future (FFF)
• Protests over responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
• 2020 Brazilian protests
• 2021 Brazilian 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
• Gaza war protests
• Gaza war protests in the United States
• Gaza war protests in the United Kingdom
• 2025 Italian general strikes and protests for Gaza
• Gaza war protests in Israel

National

See also

• Gen Z protests
• Gen Z protests in Asia
• 2020s in political history
• List of strikes