TEHRAN, September 25 - The relatives of thousands of Indians who died cleaning sewers protest ed in the capital on Tuesday, aiming to stop the practice of workers entering underground conduits to unclog drains and remove waste with their bare hands.
TEHRAN, September 24 -Israeli soldiers have shot dead a Palestinian and wounded some 50 others who had held a protest ing rally along the northern coast of the besieged Gaza Strip in a bid to break the decade-long blockade on the impoverished sliver.
TEHRAN, September 24 - Hundreds of protest ers took to the streets of Port-au-Prince on Sunday to demand an inquiry into the alleged misuse of funds set aside as part of the PetroCaribe program.
TEHRAN, September 23 - Thousands of state employees in Poland, including teachers, firefighters and health workers, have protest ed in Warsaw to demand higher wages and workplace changes.
TEHRAN, September 23 - Some 20,000 people marched in Bern Saturday demanding wage equality between the genders, organizers said, warning that women are prepared to go on strike if Swiss parliamentarians do not fix the pay gap.
TEHRAN, September 19 - Thousands of Italians are flocking to illegal free public screenings of a new film about a young man's 2009 death in custody, a potent symbol of police violence and a merciless penal system.
TEHRAN, September 14 - Scores of people have held a protest in Bahrain to voice their support for distinguished Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim, who has been stripped of his nationality by the ruling Al Khalifah dynasty, and condemn the ongoing crackdown on pro-democracy activists in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom.
TEHRAN, September 11 - Hundreds of peasant farmers and indigenous Maya blocked a major highway in Guatemala's western highlands on Monday, demanding that President Jimmy Morales reverse a policy aimed at forcing a U.N.-backed anti-graft unit to leave the country.
TEHRAN, September 10 - Nationwide protest s against record high petrol and diesel prices shut down businesses, government offices and schools in many parts of India on Monday, and in some places protest ers blocked trains and roads and vandalized vehicles.
TEHRAN, September 10 - French police used tear gas early Monday to disperse around 200 protest ers blocking the construction of a ring road near the eastern city of Strasbourg, an AFP journalist said.
TEHRAN, September 10 - Clashes erupted in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Sunday, as anti-corruption protest ers hit the city streets with banners and signs demanding a probe into PetroCaribe administration funds.
TEHRAN, September 08 - The United States has been "poisoning" UN-sponsored climate talks in Bangkok, Thailand, while environmental activists stage protest s across the globe.
TEHRAN, September 05 - The United Nations has called for calm in Iraq’s Basra in the wake of protest s over poor public services that left six people killed on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, September 05 - Five protest ers were killed and 16 more were injured during a second night of clashes with security forces in Iraq's main southern city Basra on Tuesday, September 4, local health and security sources said.
TEHRAN, September 01 - Iraqi protest ers took to the streets in Basra on Friday and tried to break into the provincial government headquarters to protest against corruption and poor public services.
TEHRAN, August 31 - At least 240 Palestinians have been injured in attacks by Israeli forces on a protest held in the Gaza Strip near the fence between the besieged enclave and the occupied Palestinian territories.
TEHRAN, August 30 - Bangladesh's main opposition party, in disarray since its leader Khaleda Zia was jailed in February, received an unexpected boost this month - days of protest s by tens of thousands of students that have shaken the government ahead of a December election.
TEHRAN, August 21 -Saudi Arabia may for the first time execute a female Shia human rights activist who was arrested some three years ago on charges of supporting anti-government protest s and inciting people to disobey the regime.
TEHRAN, August 13 - Various groups of counter- protest ers streamed into the streets of Washington DC near the White House with one common message: White nationalists are not welcome in the US capital.
TEHRAN, August 12 - Thousands of Arabs and Israelis have protest ed in Tel Aviv against Israel’s controversial “nation-state” law that declares the occupying entity “the nation-state of the Jewish people.”