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An Unlikely Success: Demonstrations Against Farm Laws in India
17 December 2021
On 9 December 2021, Indian farmers announced an end to demonstrations against the country’s aborted agricultural reforms (The New York Times, 9 December 2021). Still, key organizers maintain that the…
Read MoreReligious Repression During Ashura Season: Cases From Bahrain, Iraq, and Yemen
16 December 2021
Religious celebrations can function as catalysts for religious repression, carrying a potential for state abuses and minority contestation (Hintz & Quatrini, 2020). A focus on Ashura celebrations demonstrates how regimes…
Read MorePolitical Violence Targeting LGBT+ Communities in Africa
14 December 2021
New supplemental data on political violence targeting LGBT+ communities add nearly 100 events to the ACLED dataset. This brief analyzes the new data and explores trends in violence across Africa.
Read MoreViolence Targeting Women in Politics: Trends in Targets, Types, and Perpetrators of Political Violence
8 December 2021
The addition of identity types to ACLED data on political violence targeting women sheds new light on the physical threats to women’s participation in political processes, such as running for…
Read MoreThe Red Zone: Demonstrations Against Campus Sexual Assaults in the United States
2 December 2021
So far this year, over 100 demonstrations against campus sexual assaults have taken place in at least 39 states around the country. ACLED Research Analyst Josh Satre analyzes the latest…
Read MoreThe Drug War Rages on in the Philippines: New Data on the Civilian Toll, State Responsibility, and Shifting Geographies of Violence
18 November 2021
New supplemental data for the Philippines add nearly 1,000 events and more than 1,100 fatalities to the ACLED dataset for the period of 2016 to the present, expanding our coverage of the country’s war on drugs.
Read More‘Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong:’ The Imposition of Islamic Morality in Iran, Yemen, Egypt, and Iraq
8 November 2021
Religious repression is often targeted at individuals and groups that express religious behaviors or religious affiliation (Fox, 2016; Sarkissian, 26 May 2015). However, repressive acts can also be directed at…
Read MoreAppetite for Destruction: The Military Counter-Revolution in Sudan
29 October 2021
The military coup d’état in Sudan on 25 October 2021 sent shockwaves across the region and through diplomatic circuits. Following the arrest of the civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and…
Read MoreAbortion-Related Demonstrations Surge in the United States
21 October 2021
Abortion-related demonstrations have surged across the United States, contributing to one of the largest overall protest spikes in more than a year. ACLED Director of Research & Innovation Dr. Roudabeh…
Read MoreDeadly Demonstrations: Fatalities From State Engagement on the Rise
21 October 2021
The number of fatalities from state engagement in demonstrations around the world this year already exceeds the total reported for all of 2020. ACLED Research Coordinator Elliott Bynum and ACLED…
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