List of protests in the 21st century
This is a list of protests in the 21st century.
Revolutions and uprisings
Plants (Colour) revolutions
Arab Spring
image:Tahrir Square during 8 February 2011.jpg|thumb|Demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square on 8 February 2011- 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 protests2022 protests
2024 protests
2025 protests in Africa
- 2025 Cameroonian protests
- 2025 Malagasy protests
- 2025 Moroccan protests
- 2025 Mozambican protests
- 2025 Togolese protests
- 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 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 Colombian protests
- 2025 Mexican protests
- 2025 Paraguayan protests
- 2025 Peruvian protests
2026 protests
Other
- : Second Intifada
- : Second EDSA Revolution
- : EDSA III
- : Rojava conflict
- Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010
- : Euromaidan
- : 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
- 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
image:London Anti Iraq War march, 15Feb 2003.jpg|thumb|Protest against the Iraq War in London on 15 February 2003- 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
- Catalonia
- * 2010 Catalan autonomy protest
- * 2012 Catalan independence demonstration
- * Catalan Way
- * Catalan Way 2014
- * Free Way to the Catalan Republic
- * Go ahead, Catalan Republic
- * National Day for Yes
- * 2017 Catalan general strike
- * Wake Up Europe!
- * Fem la República Catalana
- * 2019 Catalan general strike
- * 2019–2020 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
- Kurdistan
- * December 2009 Kurdish protests in Turkey
- * 2011 Kurdish protests in Iraq
- * 2011–2012 Kurdish protests in Turkey
- * 2014 Kobanî protests
- 2019 Papua protests
- March and Rally for Scottish Independence
- Hirak Rif Movement
- Telangana movement
- Gdeim Izik protest camp
- 2024 New Caledonia unrest
- Ladakh protests
Against elections
- 2003–2004 Armenian protests
- Protests against Faure Gnassingbé
- Jeans Revolution
- 2008 Armenian presidential election protests
- April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests
- 2009 Iranian presidential election protests
- 2011–2013 Russian protests
- Yo Soy 132
- 2012 NIS public opinion manipulation scandal
- 2013 Venezuelan presidential election protests
- Malaysia's Post General Election rally 2013
- Protests against Donald Trump
- 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
image:EleNao 52.jpg|thumb|"Ele Não" protester in Porto Alegre, Brazil- March for Women's Lives (2004)
- Ni una menos
- NiUnaMenos
- 2017 Women's March
- Protests against Executive Order 13769
- Ele Não movement
- 2018 Chilean feminist protests and strikes
- 2018 Spanish women's strike
- 2018 Women's March
- 2019 Women's March
- Vanitha Mathil
- 2019 Swiss women's strike
- 2020–2021 women's strike protests in Poland
- Mahsa Amini Protests
Pro-life
- March for Life and Family
- March for Life (Prague)
- March for Life (Paris)
- March for Life (Washington, D.C.)
- Salvemos las dos Vidas
Student protests
- : 2005 Quebec student protests
- 2006 student protests in Chile
- 2007–2009 university protests in France
- : #FeesMustFall
- : Dutch pupil strike
- 2008 student protests in Chile
- 2009 student protests in Austria
- 2009 student protests in Croatia
- : 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
- : Moral and National Education controversy
- : 2012 Quebec student protests
- 2014 Hong Kong class boycott campaign
- 2014, Hong Kong Umbrella Movement
- : Sunflower Student Movement
- : #RhodesMustFall
- :
- 2015 Bangladesh student protests against VAT on education
- : Anti-Black Box Curriculum Movement
- : Tangkap Najib rally
- : SEALDs
- : 2015–2016 University of Missouri protests
- 2016 student protests in Brazil
- 2018 Bangladesh road-safety protests
- : 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
- : 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
- 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
- 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