PAKISTAN - Outrage as police assault lecturers protesting against deep pay cuts (by Ameen Amjad Khan) [University World News, June 2021]

Title:

PAKISTAN - Outrage as police assault lecturers protesting against deep pay cuts 

 

Author:

Ameen Amjad Khan  

 

Published:

University World News, 4 June 2021

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20210604073134349

 

From the article:

Condemnation is pouring in from academics, civil society and politicians against disproportionate and heavy-handed action by Pakistani police against protesting university teachers, including beating them as they demonstrated this week in front of a provincial legislature.  

 

University staff were protesting against government-imposed pay cuts due to the country’s economic crisis, exacerbated by COVID-19 related shutdowns.

 

COLOMBIA - Amid violence and protests, Colombian universities seek to promote a national dialogue [Science, May 2021]

Title:

Amid violence and protests, Colombian universities seek to promote a national dialogue 

 

Author:

María Paula Rubiano A. 

 

Published:

Science, 21 May 2021

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/amid-violence-and-protests-colombian-universities-seek-promote-national-dialogue

 

From the article:

In the first week of May, hundreds of college students in Colombia turned off their webcams during online classes and shared the same profile picture, a black background with a message in capital letters: “It is difficult to study while my people are being killed.” It was their way of supporting a national strike and protests that started on 28 April and left 19 people dead in the first week, many of them apparently killed by the Colombian police and its antiriot squad.

 

GREECE - Students, teachers defy weeklong ban on protests [Ekathimerini, 28 January 2021]

Title:

Students, teachers defy weeklong ban on protests

 

Published:

Ekathimerini, 28 January 2021

https://www.ekathimerini.com/261750/gallery/ekathimerini/news/students-teachers-defy-weeklong-ban-on-protests

 

From the article:

Thousands of students and teachers in Greece held demonstrations in Athens and second-largest city Thessaloniki on Thursday against proposed education reforms, defying a weeklong public ban on protests imposed as part of measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. 

CHILE (France 24, 19 May 2020) - Wild protests break out in Chile over Covid-19 lockdown food shortages

Title:
Wild protests break out in Chile over Covid-19 lockdown food shortages

Published:
France 24, 19 May 2020
https://www.france24.com/en/20200519-wild-protests-break-out-in-chile-over-covid-19-lockdown-food-shortages

From the article (includes video):
"Police and protesters clashed in Santiago on Monday amid a city-wide lockdown meant to stem the spread of the coronavirus as local officials warned that food shortages had hit one of the Chilean capital´s poorest neighborhoods.":