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ASA section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements; Mobilization journal; Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Changejournal; Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest; Interface: a Journal For and About Social Movements; Social Movements: A Summary of What Works (pdf)
Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace is a peace movement started in 2003 by women in Monrovia, Liberia, Africa, that worked to end the Second Liberian Civil War. [1] Organized by Crystal Roh Gawding and social workers Leymah Gbowee and Comfort Freeman, the movement began despite Liberia having extremely limited civil rights.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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]
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.
Social movements are large, sometimes informal, groupings of individuals or organizations which focus on specific political or social issues. In other words, they promote, resist or undo social change .