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Social movements in South Africa (5 C, 20 P) T. Social movements in Tanzania (1 C) Social movements in Tunisia (1 C) U. Social movements in Uganda (1 C, 1 P) Z.
Landless Peoples Movement (South Africa) Landless Workers' Movement (MST), the landless workers' movement in Brazil; Lawyers' Movement in Pakistan; Lebensreform; LGBT rights opposition; LGBTQ social movements (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements) Lily-white movement; Mad Pride (psychiatric social movement) March For Our ...
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) – Women's peace movement (created 1915) Women's International Zionist Organization – Founded in 1929 to provide community services in Mandate Palestine, now active in Israel and throughout the Jewish world; Women's World Banking founded 1979, empowering low-income women around the ...
The status of women in Africa is varied across nations and regions. For example, Rwanda is the only country in the world where women hold more than half the seats in parliament — 51.9% as of July 2019, [12] [13] but Morocco only has one female minister in its cabinet. [13]
Figures such as Nana Asma'u, an 18th-century African princess, and her Yan Taru movement to empower and educate women in the Sokoto Caliphate are considered precursors to modern feminism in Africa. African women were already deeply engaged at the World Conference on Women, 1985 [1] and have long been recognizing each other's contributions. [2]
Eva Cox (born 1938) – sociologist and feminist active in politics and social services, member of Women's Electoral Lobby, social commentator on women in power and at work, and social justice Zelda D'Aprano (1928–2018) – trade unionist, feminist, in 1969 chained herself to doors of Commonwealth Building over equal pay
The United Nations General Assembly, by resolution 3247 (XXIX) of 29 November 1974, decided to invite also the nationalist movements recognized by the Organization of African Unity (OAU, later transformed into the AU) and/or by the League of Arab States (AL) in their respective regions to participate in the United Nations Conference on the Representation of States in Their Relations with ...
2017 Women's March (United States) Protests against Executive Order 13769 (United States, 2017) Ele Não movement (Brazil, 2018) 2018 Chilean feminist protests and strikes; It also happens here (Mexico, 2018) 2018 Spanish women's strike; 2018 Women's March (United States) 2019 Women's March (United States) Vanitha Mathil (India, 2019)