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Egypt
Demonstrators were gathered peacefully in central Cairo on Jan. 25 to demand an end to Mubarak's nearly 30 years in power and protest economic woes in the North African nation. The protests came days after Tunisian leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced into exile by demonstrations in his home country.In Egypt, growing discontent over economic woes, poverty, unemployment,corruption and police abuses. -
Yemen
followed the initial stages of the Tunisian Revolution and occurred simultaneously with the Egyptian Revolution[20] and other mass protests in the Middle East in early 2011. In its early phase, protests in Yemen were initially against unemployment, economic conditions[2] and corruption,[1] as well as against the government's proposals to modify Yemen's constitution. The protestors' demands then escalated to calls for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign. Mass defections from the milita -
Libiya
The 2011 Libyan protests began as a series of protests and confrontations occurring in the North African state of Libya against the Government of Libya and its de facto leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. The unrest began on 15 February 2011 and continues to the present. Protests have centered on Libya’s two largest cities, the capital of Tripoli in the west, and Benghazi in the east and tends to spread to other cities. On 18 February, demonstrators took control over most of Benghazi. -
India
The focal point of protests is the draft legislation that would create an independent body with the power to investigate politicians and civil servants suspected of corruption
Anna Hazare, the veteran anti-corruption campaigner who refuses to leave his jail cell at the time of writing this blog, has become somewhat of a catalyst for people to come together and make themselves heard -
Chile
a series of student-led protests across Chile from May-December of 2011. Protesters had multifaceted goals, broadly related to lowering the price and strengthening the role of the state in secondary and higher education. Unique in the world, only 45% of high school students in Chile study in traditional public schools and the education system is largely in private hands.Beyond the specific demands regarding education, there is a feeling that the protests reflect a "deep discontent" among some.
