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Jun 4, 2020 · The following historically significant political protests include a decisive event in the Civil Rights movement, two history-changing moments that occurred within one year and the medieval ...
- Paris Agreement
Donald Trump stood in the Rose Garden at the White House to...
- How Gutenberg Changed The World
Around A.D. 600, the Chinese invented a printing technique...
- The EPA
An academic suing the EPA over its decision to bar certain...
- Earth Day
Earth Day is an annual global event on April 22 that...
- 10 Surprising Ways Weather Has Changed History
Napoléon Bonaparte (Image credit: public domain,...
- How Gandhi Changed The World
Gandhi's non-cooperation movement, kicked off in the early...
- Paris Agreement
Liberalism. Political freedom (also known as political autonomy or political agency) is a central concept in history and political thought and one of the most important features of democratic societies. [1] Political freedom has been described as freedom from oppression [2] or coercion, [3] the absence of disabling conditions for an individual ...
- Black Lives Matter. With the killing of George Floyd by a US police officer in May 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement is an important one to support right now.
- Schools Strike for Climate. One girl with a protest sign outside Sweden’s parliament every Friday inspired a worldwide movement in less than one year.
- Indigenous land rights movement. The struggle for Indigenous land rights spanned decades. In 1963, the Yolngu people from Yirrkala in Arnhem Land presented parliament with the Yirrkala bark petitions, protesting to have their land and their rights returned.
- Girls’ rights to education. Malala Youfaszai grew up in the Swat Valley in Pakistan at a time when the Taliban had banned girls from attending school.
- Global: Black Lives Matter
- Chile: A Radical Constitution in Prospect
- Argentina: Abortion Legalized
- India: Farmers Fight Back
- Guatemala: Public Spending Cuts Reversed
- Namibia: #Shutitalldown
- Italy: Sardines Turn The Tide
- Japan: Protest Success Against Fossil Fuel Funder
- Malawi: Protests Help Force Election Rerun
- Peru: Protests at A Political Coup
The police murder of George Floyd in May 2020 resonated around the world, forcing people to the streetsto demand real change to respect Black lives and Black rights. While systemic change is needed, the movement won some early impacts. Politicians acknowledged they need to do better at combating racism. Huge corporations pulled social media adverti...
A few days ago, people in Chile overwhelmingly voted for progressive, young, and feminist candidates in the assembly to write Chile’s new constitution. This directly elected body was set up after a landslide vote that followed huge protestsin 2019, demanding a new constitution to replace the old one written in times of dictatorship. The protest mov...
A mammoth fight for rights came to fruition in Argentina in December when abortion was legalized. A generation of young women made this their defining struggle, and alongside political advocacy, mass demonstrations showed the popularity of support for change, with people clad in the movement’s signature green colors. Protests were crucial in arguin...
India’s authoritarian government is rarely willing to listen. But it did not predict the backlashfrom small farmers when it unilaterally imposed major changes on farm laws stretching back decades. Tens of thousands of farmers marched on Delhi and remain there today, demanding the laws’ repeal. In November, a strike of about 250 million Indians show...
The November 2020 announcement by Guatemala’s government of its plan to slash education and health care funding provoked outrage, because these were the services most strained by the pandemic. Thousands were moved to protest at service cuts, long-running corruption, and endemic violence, and although the government’s initial response was brutal, it...
Sadly, it took the killing of a young woman, 22-year-old Shannon “Darlikie” Wasserfall, to spark outrage in Namibia. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in October 2020 under the banner of #ShutItAllDown, insisting that life must come to a standstill until the pernicious violence against women was tackled. After initially being met with secu...
When the far-right League party looked to win in Italy’s central Emilia-Romagna region in early 2020, the Sardines movement mobilizedto make clear that many remained opposed to racism and hatred. The plan was to squeeze like sardines into public squares to prove that not only the far right could gather numbers, and show people they were not alone i...
Japan’s climate protesters struck a blowagainst the coal industry in March 2020, when they protested outside the headquarters of the Mizuho Financial Group, one of the world’s biggest financiers of coal power plant construction. Backed by an online campaign and business press ads, protesters also submitted a shareholder resolution. The pressure wor...
Malawi saw a historic first for Africa in June 2020, when its general election was rerun after an election riddled with irregularities the year before. Months of civil society-led protestsplayed a vital part in keeping up the pressure for democracy to be respected. The ruling party was ousted in the rerun, offering hope that democratic values run d...
The ousting of a president was the catalyst for protestsin Peru last year, when nonpartisan President Martín Vizcarra was forced out in an elite coup. Many young people took to the streets for the first time, making amply clear their disaffection with conventional politics and the corruption that has stained successive governments. Protests continu...
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Aug 25, 2020 · W e tend to think of freedom as an emancipatory ideal—and with good reason. Throughout history, the desire to be free inspired countless marginalized groups to challenge the rule of political ...
Political Freedom in the Developing World. One of the obstacles holding back developing nations is political oppression. “Bad governance,” one of the four main “poverty traps” identified by Paul Collier, keeps nations locked in poverty. Dictatorships and military juntas discourage the conditions necessary for economic development.
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The backlash against these movements is often violent, but through the danger, activists keep going. Here are 9 examples of human rights movements around the world: Table of Contents. #1. Women’s suffrage. #2. The Civil Rights movement. #3. The anti-apartheid movement.
