Anti-corruption demonstration in Tunisia, May 2017. Image: Mohamed Krit/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved.
This week sees the launch of our partnership project with human rights organisations CELS and INCLO, with support from the ACLU. Called Right to Protest, the project will be looking at the power of protest and why the right to protest is fundamental for human rights and democratic society. We will be examining the day-to-day realities of protest around the world; the reasons behind the worldwide increase in protest; how states are responding – including a look at the use of crowd-control weapons; and what can be done to protect the right to protest.
Large-scale protests have become more numerous and geographically widespread in recent years. While much debate among international relations experts has focused on the shift in power away from the West to rising economies, equally significant in the nascent era of global politics is the rise of citizen mobilisation.
