A student at UCLA has gained attention for going on a hunger strike to pressure the university to divest from Israel.
Panama’s new canal dam plan puts thousands of villagers at risk, prompting protests over mass displacement.
Columbia University students booed the school’s acting president, Claire Shipman, at a graduation ceremony.
A Republican senator said a pro-Palestinian protester interrupting a hearing was “progress” because it was in English.
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Detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was honoured at an alternative graduation ceremony in New York.
Protesters march through The Hague to call on government to do more to halt Israel’s onslaught on besieged enclave.
Protesters wearing red staged a march in the Netherlands to demand an end to the government’s support for Israel.
Protesters were assaulted and dragged away for shouting ‘Free Palestine’ during Israel’s performance at Eurovision.
In November 2024, three legislators from the Te Pati Maori party performed a protest haka in parliament.
Ben Cohen among seven people arrested after interrupting testimony by US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Human rights groups say politicians have been forcibly disappeared in recent days
At least 40 pro-Palestinian student protesters were detained at a demonstration inside a library at Columbia University.
Civic spaces are shrinking under Goita’s rule, democracy activists say, as the military suspends ‘political activity’.
Pro-Palestinian student group says it staged demonstration to protest university profiting from ‘imperialist violence’.
