BRAZIL’S INDIGENOUS STAGE PROTESTS TO DEMAND LANDS
A Pataxo Indian takes part in the first day of the National Indigenous Mobilization protest in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. The protest is against a proposed constitutional amendment…
Protests and demonstrations
THOUSANDS PROTEST AS SUDAN OFFICIALS PROMISE CASH
By MAGGIE MICHAEL Sudanese anti-government protesters chant slogans during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. Thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets in night march in…
TUNISIA’S GOVERNING ISLAMISTS TO STEP DOWN
By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA FILE- Tunisian Prime Minister Ali Larayedh addresses the media in this file photo dated Monday, July 29, 2013, in Tunis, Tunisia. It is announced Saturday Sept.…
SUDAN POLICE FIRE ON FUNERAL MARCH, WITNESSES SAY
By MAGGIE MICHAEL Sudanese men pray over the body of Salah Sanhory, 26, who was killed on Friday Sept. 27, 2013 by security forces, during his funeral in Khartoum, Sudan,…
MISS WORLD DRAMA FUELED BY HOST COUNTRY INDONESIA
By MARGIE MASON In this Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 photo, Muslim women hold posters reading: Indonesia is not America, left, and Reject Miss World, during a protest demanding the cancellation…
GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS JAILED AMID RUSSIAN PROBE
By ALEXANDER ROSLYAKOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVA A police officer guards the US captain of the Greenpeace ship ‘Arctic Sunrise’, Peter Willcox in a cage in a court room in Murmansk,…
CLASHES BREAK OUT IN ATHENS ANTI-FASCIST RALLY
By ELENA BECATOROS Students shout slogans as they march through the city center of Athens during a protest against far-right Golden Dawn party, Athens, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. The government…
PAKISTANI CHRISTIANS PROTEST DEADLY CHURCH BOMBING
By RIAZ KHAN A Pakistani woman mourns as she holds the lifeless body of her granddaughter, a victim of a suicide attack on a church in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept.…