On August 1st, 2018, women in South Africa marched in protest to gender-based violence. These marches were done advocate for the end of gender-based violence and push for the rights of women in South Africa. Women were seen marching in the streets in coordinating black and red outfits, chanting and holding signs to push forward their point. Gaopalelwe Phalaetsile, a representative of #TotalShutdown National Committee, stated women are “tired of just hearing the statement ‘enough is enough’ but with no action behind it. We have a plan of action and we can see that the government is struggling so its time we collaborate to stop femicide.” The march called much needed attention to violence towards women in South Africa, and led to several policy changes enacted to protect women.

In 2017, Filipino Catholics took to the streets to March against President Rodrigo Duterte’s extra-judicial killings and a government plan to reimpose the death penalty for criminals under the president’s war on drugs. Dubbed the “Walk for Life” the march was endorsed by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). In less than a year since the start of Duterte’s war on drugs had claimed upwards of 7,600 lives. In a statement, CBCP president Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said “We cannot teach that killing is wrong by killing those who kill. It also increases the number of killers.” Therefore the Catholic citizens charged the street of Manila to make their position clear and bring attention to how the veneer of the war on drugs had allowed the Duterte government impunity to accuse, arrest, and murder in the nation.

Through the streets of Belgrade, Serbia in 2016 anti-corruption marches took place. The march was the fifth so far in an ongoing movement known as “Beograd NIJE MALI” or “Belgrade is not small.” The denouncement of corruption is linked to the Belgrade waterfront project. The rallies were started by a group called Ne Da(vi)mo Beograd, or Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)own due to the illegal demolitions which were intended to make space for the development along the Sava River. The project, known by protesters as the “Belgrade Water-Fraud,” is a part of a trend of unregulated urban planning of a government already in deficit. Luka Knežević Strika, an organizer of the protest, stated that the movement’s goal was to “stop the degradation and plunder of Belgrade on behalf of megalomaniacal urban and architectural projects.” The corruption and the demolitions put the most vulnerable in Serbia at risk. Despite efforts to threaten the protester into not speaking of the circumstances surrounding the waterfront, more people have come out to march and take action against government officials. The July 2016 march was one of five marches with more planned against the Belgrade waterfront.