EVENT INFORMATION

17
July
2021

Protests begin against COVID health-pass and vaccination measures

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📅 17 July 2021 📍 France

More than 100,000 people demonstrated across France after the government announced measures expanding use of a health pass and requiring vaccination for some workers. Protest coalitions were politically heterogeneous, including civil-liberties concerns as well as anti-vaccine and far-right currents. The movement should not be represented as a unified defense of public health or as a single political bloc. It provides a case for studying how state mandates, trust, misinformation and unequal access to healthcare shape protest.

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Emmanuel Macron

protest participants

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Local protest coalitions

political groups and civil-liberties advocates