In 2025, youth protests over corruption, precarity and broken promises by government officials swept across multiple regions around the world. Demonstrations in Nepal forced early elections, while unrest in Peru toppled a president. In Morocco, Kenya, Indonesia and Serbia, young people mobilized around similar grievances, with widely varying effect.
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