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  2. List of social movements - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Category:Social movements in Africa - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. List of social movements in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    There are a number of high-profile independent social movements in South Africa.The majority have a particular focus on the housing crisis in the urban areas but others range from focusing on HIV/AIDS, working conditions, unemployment, access to service delivery and issues of democracy, transparency and accountability, corruption, poverty, crime, xenophobia, economy, drought, racism, sexism ...

  5. List of women's organizations - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. African feminism - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Women in Africa - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Feminism in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Women benefited from the democratization of South Africa as women were the ones most significantly impacted and oppressed by the male dominated, state repression. [3] It was the initial unification and women's rights movement during the negotiations of the constitution that spurred other activism related to women's rights and social circumstances.

  9. List of women's rights activists - Wikipedia

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    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