Teachers, hospital workers, and other public sector employees in Quebec demonstrated outside a community meeting on Friday in support of their new contract demands.
500 women marched in Harare, Zimbabwe on Thursday protesting poor electricity supply and high costs. Many were arrested, and four remained in custody on Sunday night.
AIDS activists staged sit-ins in Manipur, India on Saturday after the murder of an HIV-positive youth. Police broke up the actions; the activists said the denial of their protest applications was discrimination.
First Nations members in Canada successfully blocked a railway for two hours on Friday in order to raise awareness about community concerns, including land claims and higher taxes.
Families and friends of Jordanians imprisoned in Israeli jails gathered and staged a one-day hunger strike on Saturday in solidarity with prisoners. The protest took place the day after Raed Abu Hammad died in an Israeli jail, apparently after being denied medications.
Refugees in a Sahrawi camp in Algeria staged a one-day hunger strike on Saturday in solidarity with political prisoners in Morocco who have been hunger-striking since March.
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