Yellow Vest participant Moun is arrested at a security-law protest

Journalists, press unions, civil-liberties organizations and other demonstrators gathered in Paris as opposition mounted to the proposed Global Security law. Critics focused on restrictions...

A national day of marches drew press unions, human-rights groups and residents opposing the bill’s restrictions on recording police and its expanded surveillance provisions. The Interior Ministry...

Assistant education staff and AESH workers mobilized in schools, seeking dignified pay, stable employment, more staffing and recognition of their work. FSU backed the locally organized action. The...

A Montpellier court sentenced Ian, a member of the collective Désarmons-les, to eight months in prison after his arrest during a September 2019 Yellow Vest demonstration. Basta! compared the...

Demonstrations continued after the 28 November mobilization, joining opposition to the security bill with anger over police violence and demands for accountability. Protesters argued that the right to...

A gathering at Épannes in Deux-Sèvres opposed large irrigation reservoirs, known as bassines, that store water for agricultural use. Opponents argued that public support for the reservoirs...

A new national day of mobilization kept pressure on the proposed law after revisions failed to address demonstrators’ central concerns. Police and organizer estimates diverged sharply, reflecting...

The Paris Administrative Court found that the French state had failed to meet its greenhouse-gas reduction commitments, in the case brought by four organizations as L’Affaire du Siècle. The decision...

Tens of thousands demonstrated across France for International Women's Day, with associations calling for a strike for equality. The slogan 'premières de corvée' highlighted the women whose paid and...

Thousands marched in Paris against racism and police violence. Organizers connected the Global Security bill and the proposed “separatism” legislation to the treatment of racialized communities, and...