In addition, commemorations were held for the anniversaries of Nazi repression of student activists in Prague of 1939, the Athens Polytechnic Uprising of 1973 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
Following IUS' decline, the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions and the European Students' Union agreed, at the 2004 World Social Forum in Mumbai, to coordinate future observances of the date.
[22] In India, school students challenged the education minister on a proposed new evaluation system.
[24] Meanwhile, in Ghana, the All Africa Student Union organised events to promote quality assurance in education[25] and commemorations were held in Uganda.
[26][27] In Mexico a large number of activists protested against the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping, demanding educational environments free from fear.