The Shame march challenges Belgium’s political deadlock

Around 200 undocumented residents associated with UDEP demonstrated in Ixelles, demanding promised regularisation rules and the implementation of the government agreement. The action followed months...

Undocumented people began occupying the Beguinage church, with support from rights groups and priest Daniël Alliët. The occupation made shelter and public visibility inseparable: participants sought...

After months in the Beguinage church, around 230 undocumented people began a hunger strike. They said promised regularisation criteria had not materialised and used their own health to force attention...

A Brussels climate-change demonstration mobilised an estimated 13,000 people according to police and around 15,000 according to media and researchers. It formed part of the Belgian climate...

The European Trade Union Confederation organised a Brussels Euro-demonstration as part of a coordinated day of action across Europe. Participants opposed austerity policies and called for investment...

Workers and organisations from Belgium’s non-profit sector demonstrated in Brussels over pressures on services and working conditions. A comparative protest study records roughly 13,800 participants...

A large Brussels demonstration challenged austerity and called for alternatives centred on employment and social protection. The protest took place amid European debt-crisis policy debates. A...

The 24-hour general strike protested pension reforms introduced with limited social dialogue by the Di Rupo government. Unions argued that reforms would hit younger, older and lower-income people...

A national demonstration opened a month of rolling union actions against the centre-right government’s planned pension-age increase, wage restraint and public-service cuts. Police estimated at least...

The country’s two largest union confederations jointly organised a 24-hour general strike after a month of escalating actions. Workers opposed pension-age increases, wage freezes and cuts to public...