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Jan 16, 2020 · Our quarterly Civil Unrest Index reveals that over the past year 47 jurisdictions have witnessed a significant uptick in protests, which intensified during the last quarter of 2019. This includes locations as diverse as Hong Kong, Chile, Nigeria, Sudan, Haiti and Lebanon.
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In Chile, the anger was sparked Oct. 6 by a four per cent increase to the price of riding the subway in the capital of Santiago. But it was as though someone had just picked a scab. Five days later, grocery stores were being looted, people were stockpiling food, and more than a dozen people were dead. "Chile woke up!" people chanted, as the protest...
The months-long protests in Hong Kongwere sparked in the spring by anger over a government bill which would have allowed people in Hong Kong to be extradited to face trial elsewhere, including in mainland China. But even after Hong Kong's embattled leader agreed to suspend the bill in July, the streets still seethed, as the protest expanded into a ...
O'Brien says he can also draw a link between all of the economic and political unrest and climate change protests that have swept across the continentsin the past year. He points to how the movement is mobilizing hundreds of thousands of young people around dissatisfaction with how political institutions "don't seem to be taking account of the inte...
Sep 1, 2022 · The world is facing an unprecedented rise in civil unrest as governments of all stripes grapple with the impacts of inflation on the price of staple foods and energy, according to the latest edition of our Civil Unrest Index (CUI).
Jan 1, 2021 · Political unrest occurs in different forms, including protests, riots, strikes, coups, and politically motivated killings. Many factors are beyond the increasing of political unrest in a given society, the most important of which is the high number of young people in a community.
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‘Civil unrest’ is an umbrella term for a wide spectrum of phenomena, and although there is no commonly agreed United Nations definition the term is used widely among United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, particularly to describe violent and non-violent group acts.
Civil Unrest on the Rise Data from the 2020 Global Peace Index shows that civil unrest has doubled over the last decade. Between 2011 and 2018, the number of both protests and riots roughly doubled, while the number of general strikes quadrupled, from 33 events in 2011 to 135 in 2018.
Jul 16, 2021 · Social unrest can be caused by frustrations including the handling of a crisis, mounting inequality, corruption and negatively affects economic recovery. The adverse impact of unrest is typically larger in countries with weak institutions and limited policy space.
