Rise for Climate march draws a record crowd of around 70,000

After a temporary stay in a vacant care home was due to end, roughly 80 members of La Voix des Sans-Papiers occupied the empty Hotel Astrid. The collective sought residence papers and a place to stay,...

Civil-society organisations, migrant and refugee-support groups, anti-racist collectives and unions marched in Brussels against racism, discrimination, hate and inequality. Police estimated about...

More than 65,000 people marched in Brussels, with organisers estimating around 75,000 including cyclists. The Climate Coalition called on governments to align policy with the Paris Agreement and limit...

About 3,000 pupils left school to demand stronger climate policy, answering a call by Antwerp students Anuna De Wever and Kyra Gantois and joining a growing international school-strike movement....

The weekly school strike grew from roughly 3,000 participants on 10 January and 12,500 a week later to around 35,000 on 24 January. Students used recurring weekday action to turn climate urgency...

Feminists called on women and people identifying as women to stop paid work, education, care work, housework and consumption, making visible labour often treated as private or unpaid. Thousands joined...

Collecti.e.f 8 maars called Belgium’s first national women’s strike, asking women and people who identify as women to withdraw from paid work, housework, care, consumption and education. The action...

Around 7,000 people joined the 21st and final scheduled Youth for Climate march before Belgium’s federal, regional and European elections. After weeks of Thursday strikes, the organisers used the...

A European call for a housing-rights mobilisation on 28 March 2020 could not proceed as planned because of the pandemic. Belgian groups moved much of the action online and kept the campaign alive...

During the first COVID-19 lockdown, undocumented people held a short action at the health and migration minister’s office. They described losing income and being unable to pay rent or food, while...