Introduction:
Eight protests took place in the second half of August 2021, of which six protests are social and two are labor.
During the reporting period, high school (Thanawyia Amma) students and their parents protested against the low pass rate after a large number of students failed the exams, while the results of many others’ weren’t released.
First: Details of Labor protests:
| Kind of protests | Number of protests | The protesting sector | The geographical region | Details of the protest |
| Collective Complaint | 1 | Ports and Maritime Affairs (PMA) | Investment Zone – Port Said | A collective complaint submitted by the investment zone’s workers, demanding to open street lanes at the Raswa Port to save effort and wasted time. |
| Protest vigil | 1 | press and media sector | Journalists Syndicate – Cairo | A number of journalists staged a protest to demand that the newspapers they work in be encoded and accordingly they will be able to be enrolled in the Journalists Syndicate after they fulfilled the legal requirements and procedures. |
Details of social protests:
| Kind of protests | Number of protests | The protesting sector | The geographical region | Details of the protest |
| Gathering | 1 | Students and Parents Sector | Ministry of Education and Technical Education – Cairo | High school students and their parents gathered in front of the Ministry of Education Office in protest against the low pass rate as a large number of students failed their exams |
| Suicide | 1 | Residents and residential neighborhoods sector | Beheira governorate | A merchant committed suicide in Al-Beheira due to the accumulation of debts on him |
| Collective complaint | 1 | Residents and residential neighborhoods sector | Manfalut – Assiut governorate | A collective complaint submitted by the people of the Manfalut Center in Assiut Governorate complaining about the lack of health services |
| Collective complaint | 1 | Residents and residential neighborhoods sector | Mansoura – Dakahlia governorate | A collective complaint of a fracture in the University’s pedestrian bridge crossing the Nile in the city of Mansoura, Dakahlia governorate, threatening the safety of citizens |
| Suicide | 1 | Residents and residential neighborhoods sector | Dakahlia governorate | A driver committed suicide in Dakahlia governorate due to a financial crisis |
| Suicide | 1 | Residents and residential neighborhoods sector | El Ayyat – Giza | A young man committed suicide after passing through a financial distress |
