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Lists Of Activists
This is a list of lists of activists. * List of abolitionists * List of African-American abolitionists * List of African American activists * List of animal rights advocates * List of animal rights groups * List of anti-nuclear groups * List of anti-war organizations * List of assassinated human rights activists * List of atheist activists and educators * List of breastfeeding activists * List of Chinese dissidents * List of civil rights leaders * List of disability rights activists * List of environmental organizations * List of feminists * List of Indian independence activists * List of Jewish American activists * List of LGBT rights activists * List of Muslim feminists * List of Nigerian human rights activists * List of opponents of slavery * List of Pakistan Movement activists * List of peace activists * List of suffragists and suffragettes * List of women's rights activists * List of women pacifists and peace activists This is a list of women pacifists and peace a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Activism
Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make Social change, changes in society toward a perceived common good. Forms of activism range from Mandate (politics), mandate building in a community (including writing letters to newspapers), petitioning elected officials, running or contributing to a political campaign, preferential patronage (or boycott) of businesses, and demonstrative forms of activism like rallies, street marches, Strike action, strikes, sit-ins, or hunger strikes. Activism may be performed on a day-to-day basis in a wide variety of ways, including through the creation of art (artivism), computer hacking (hacktivism), or simply in how one chooses to spend their money (economic activism). For example, the refusal to buy clothes or other merchandise from a company as a protest against the Exploitation of labour, exploitation of workers by that company could be cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Environmental Organizations
An environmental organization is an organization coming out of the conservation or environmental movements that seeks to protect, analyse or monitor the environment against misuse or degradation from human forces. In this sense the environment may refer to the biophysical environment or the natural environment. The organization may be a charity, a trust, a non-governmental organization, a governmental organization or an intergovernmental organization. Environmental organizations can be global, national, regional or local. Some environmental issues that environmental organizations focus on include pollution, plastic pollution, waste, resource depletion, human overpopulation and climate change. Intergovernmental organizations Global organization in the world * Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP) * Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) * School strike for climate or Fridays for Future (FFF) * Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) * Intergovernmental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Women's Rights Activists
Notable women's rights activists are as follows, arranged alphabetically by modern country names and by the names of the persons listed: Afghanistan * Amina Azimi – disabled women's rights advocate * Hasina Jalal – women's empowerment activist * Quhramaana Kakar – Senior Strategic Advisor for Conciliation Resources * Masuada Karokhi (born 1962) – Member of Parliament and women’s rights campaigner Albania * Parashqevi Qiriazi (1880–1970) – teacher * Sevasti Qiriazi (1871–1949) – pioneer of female education * Urani Rumbo (1895–1936) – feminist, and playwright Algeria * Aïcha Lemsine (born 1942) – French-language writer and women's rights activist * Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) – writer and sociologist Argentina * Lucía Alberti (born 1944) – radical feminist and politician * Virginia Bolten (1870–1960) – Argentine journalist as well as an anarchist and feminist activist of German descent * Raymunda Torres y Quiroga – 19th-century Argentine wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Suffragists And Suffragettes
This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals. Suffragists and suffragettes, often members of different groups and societies, used or use differing tactics. Australians called themselves "suffragists" during the nineteenth century while the term "suffragette" was adopted in the earlier twentieth century by some British groups after it was coined as a dismissive term in a newspaper article. "Suffragette" in the British or Australian usage can sometimes denote a more " militant" type of campaigner, while suffragists in the United States organized such nonviolent events as the Suffrage Hikes, the Woman Suffrage Procession of 1913, the Silent Sentinels, and the Selma to Montgomery march. US and A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Peace Activists
This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated Diplomacy, diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods. Peace activists usually work with others in the overall anti-war movement, anti-war and peace movements to focus the world's attention on what they perceive to be the irrationality of violent conflicts, decisions, and actions. They thus initiate and facilitate wide public dialogues intended to nonviolently alter long-standing societal agreements directly relating to, and held in place by, the various violent, habitual, and historically fearful thought-processes residing at the core of these conflicts, with the intention of peacefully ending the conflicts themselves. A * Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (1964–2011) – Kenyan peace activist, government consultant * David Adams (peace activist), David Adams (born 1939) – American author and peace activist, task for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Pakistan Movement Activists
The Founders and activists of the Pakistan Movement, also known as Founding Fathers of Pakistan (Urdu:بانیانِ پاکستان; Roman Urdu, ''Romanization lit''.:''bəŋɨaɪaɪ-e-Pəkɨstəŋ''), were the political leaders and statespersons who participated in the success of the Partition of India, political movement, following the signing of the Lahore Resolution, Pakistan Resolution, that led the establishment and creation of the independent Pakistan in Fourteenth of August, August 1947. Within this large group, a further and extended subset signed the Objectives Resolution, Objective Resolution that was Annex to the Constitution of Pakistan, annexed to the Constitution of Pakistan in 1950. The term was first used by the Linguistics, linguist and Archaeology, archeologist Dr. Ahmad Hasan Dani's book, the ''Founding Fathers of Pakistan'' (1998), which popularized the term in literary activities of the country. The Pakistan Movement was led by a large group of activists and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Opponents Of Slavery
This is a listing of notable opponents of slavery, often called abolitionists. Groups Historical * African Methodist Episcopal Church (American) * American Anti-Slavery Society (American) * American Missionary Association (American) * Anti-Slavery Society (1823–1838), Anti-Slavery Society (British) * Birmingham Ladies Society for the Relief of Negro Slaves, founded 1825 (British) * Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (American) * Boston Vigilance Committee (American) * British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, founded 1839, continues as Anti-Slavery International * Clapham Sect (British) * Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (British) * Dames-Comité ter Bevordering van de Evangelieverkondiging en de Afschaffing der Slavernij, founded 1856 (Dutch) * Free Soil Party (American) * Free-Stater (Kansas), Free-Staters (Kansas) (American) * Jayhawkers (American) * International Justice Mission (American) * Liberty Party (United States, 1840) * Massachusetts Anti-Slavery S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Nigerian Human Rights Activists ...
There are several human right activists in Nigeria. This is a list of notable Nigerian human rights activists in a list. References {{Human rights in Nigeria * Nigerian human rights human rights activists A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights. They can be journalists, environmentalists, whistleblowers, trade unionists, lawyers, teachers, housing campai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Muslim Feminists
This is a list of important participants in Muslim feminism, originally sorted by surname within each period. It may include, for instance, earlier authors who did not self-identify as feminists but have been claimed to have furthered "feminist consciousness" by a resistance of male dominance expressed in their works. Early and mid 19th-century feminists Born between 1801 and 1874. Late 19th-century and early 20th-century feminists Born between 1875 and 1939. Mid to late 20th-century and notable 21st-century feminists Born from 1940 to present Muslim feminist movements * Gerwani * Musawah * Sister-hood * Sisters in Islam * Voice of Libyan Women * Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality * Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan * Women Living Under Muslim Laws See also * Islamic feminism *Women in Islam * List of feminists *Liberalism and progressivism within Islam * Islamo-Leftism *Islamic socialism References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of LGBT Rights Activists
A list of notable LGBTQ rights activists who have worked to advance LGBTQ rights by political change, legal action or publication. Ordered by country, alphabetically. Albania * Xheni Karaj, founder of Aleanca LGBT organization and recipient of the Civil Rights Defenders of the Year Award 2022 * Kristi Pinderi, LGBT activist and journalist; founder of Pro-LGBT Angola * Carlos Fernandes, LGBT activist and a founder/director of the Iris Angola Association. * Imanni Da Silva, Angolan model and transgender rights activist. * Titica, transgender Angolan singer and goodwill ambassador for UNAIDS. Argentina * Mariana Alarcón, human rights activist who worked for labor rights for transgender women * Claudia Pía Baudracco, led the movement to repeal laws criminalizing transgender identities; co-founder of the Argentine Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans Federation * Lohana Berkins, founder of the Association for the Fight for Travesti and Transsexual Identity * Lara María Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Jewish American Activists
This is a list of notable Jewish American activists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans. A * Dinah Abrahamson (1954–2013), politician and activist for the African-American Lubavitch community *Martin Abern (1898–1949), communist youth movement leader * Bernard Ades (1903–1986), civil rights lawyer * Lori Alhadeff (born 1975), school safety activist *Saul Alinsky (1909–1972), community activist and theorist * Gloria Allred (born 1941), lawyer and radio talk show host * Lindsay Amer, LGBTQ Youtuber and activist *Stanley Aronowitz (1933–2021), sociologist, civil rights activist, and labor leader B * Ady Barkan, founding member of the Center for Popular Democracy and progressive activist on monetary policy and healthcare issues * Michael Berg (born 1945), environmental activist and Green Party candidate * Heather Booth, civil rights activist and community organizer * Esther Swirk Brown, civil rights activist whose landmark supreme court case ended se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Indian Independence Activists
The Indian independence movement consisted of efforts by individuals and organizations from a wide spectrum of society to obtain political independence from the British, French and Portuguese rule through the use of many methods. This is a list of individuals who notably political campaign, campaigned against or are considered to have campaigned against colonial rule on the Indian sub-continent. Post-independence, the term "freedom fighter" was officially recognized by the Government of India, Indian government for those who took part in the movement; people in this category (which can also include dependent family members) receive pensions and other benefits such as Special Railway Counters. List A B C D F G H I J K L M P R S T U V See also *:Indian revolutionaries Notes References {{DEFAULTSORT:Indian Independence Activists Lists of Indian people India history-related lists Indian independe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
