Pandemic leads to new surge in protests around the world amid growing vaccines and economic inequality

For now, though, the concerns are more pressing — and often find deep expression. A team of researchers at the Institute for Economics and Peace, a global think tank, tracked more than 5,000 outbreaks of pandemic-related violence between January 2020 and April 2021. Projected protests from Latin America to the Middle East reflect rising unemployment, jobs in the informal economy vanishing for nothing, and starvation With soaring food prices, millions of people around the world have fallen into poverty.