Gen Z protests

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The Gen Z protests are a series of ongoing political demonstrations, uprisings, and revolutions predominantly led by those born from the mid-to-late 1990s to the early 2010s. While Generation Z has been politically active since the early 2010s, the current wave of protests emerged in the early 2020s. The 2024 July Uprising in Bangladesh is widely cited as the first successful "Gen Z" revolution, which popularized the term. However, Britannica describes Sri Lanka's 2022 uprising as "perhaps... the first time that Gen Z toppled a national government". Gen Z protests in other Asian countries have since followed, including a successful revolution in Nepal. By 2025 and 2026, the protests had spread worldwide to Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America. Although the specific causes of the protests depend on the region, they have generally been in response to perceived social inequality, rising costs of living, corruption and authoritarianism. Protests have also addressed international issues...

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