- Environmentalists in Armenia gathered outside the new dolphinarium in Yerevan’s Komitas Park on Friday to protest the cruelty of keeping dolphins in confined spaces, as well as subjecting them to unsuitable winter temperatures.
- A few thousand people gathered in Moscow on Sunday to protest ethnic violence and to call on the authorities to refrain from crackdowns that would curtail Moscow’s diversity.
- Nine French activists were arrested on Sunday during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at a major Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank.
- Hundreds of villagers in Cambodia’s Kampong Speu province staged a sit-in on Friday to prevent the clearance of land they say is being grabbed illegally by tycoon and ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat.
- Hundreds of Israelis and African migrants marched down Tel Aviv’s main boulevard Friday to protest a government plan to build a detention facility to hold those who enter the country illegally.
- A group of New Jersey animal rights demonstrators showed their disdain for slaughterhouses yesterday by protesting outside a live poultry market on Bergenline Avenue in West New York.
