The issue occurred when the Quebec government passed Bill 87 to crush the growing student movement protesting national tuition increases. Bill 87 banned protests of ov...

In 2015, Governor Geraldo Alckman of São Paulo passed a bill to reorganize the public school system which would change the schools of over 300,000 students and impact ...

The United States had signed treaties with Native American nations back in the 1800s which granted these groups sovereignty as well as the right to maintain traditiona...

Issues and Opposition: The Thailand Monarchy has strict laws against criticism against the royal family. Protestors could be jailed for minor offenses for 10-15 years ...

The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) was proposed in 1994 to decrease trade restrictions in the Americas. Its implementation was heavily disputed among U.S., Can...

Since 2007, the Pakistani government has been fighting against the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, especially relying on its mili...

Machismo and climate denial, as well as an alliance with the fossil fuel industry, is a package deal for the right. Andrew Tate, a former kickboxer is infamous for his...

On Thursday, November 24, 2022, a fire started on the 15th floor of an apartment complex in Ürümqi, the capital of a western Chinese province called Xinjiang. Governme...

After closing his $44-billion purchase of Twitter on October 28, Elon Musk has had a rocky start after taking over as the new boss. The company is being criticized due...

Issue/Opponent: For four decades authorities have imposed a gender-segregation in universities. Male and female students are obligated by an unwritten law to sit in tw...

Protests erupted across Iran after 22-year-old Mahsa (Jina) Amini’s death on September 16, following her arrest by morality policy for “improperly” wearing her headsca...

On September 13, 2022, Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman was detained by the Iranian morality police for “inappropriate attire”. Witnesses reported that Amini was bea...

Mahsa Amini, who also went by the name Jina, was a 22-year-old woman from the western city of Saqqez in Iran’s Kurdistan province. Iranian morality police detained her...

Ukraine has received more than 1 million tons of military equipment from NATO countries, including tanks, howitzers, and ammunition. It has also received tons of suppo...

Dietary racism is a social construct that is built by a racial majority that assumes the food the majority consumes affects other races and cultures in the same way. D...

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, has generated criticism for the amount of corporate greenwashing it allows to be put on display. It is argued...

Believing that the city of London’s economy was built on “blood money” (the $31.4 billion in profits from mining fossil fuels resources), the Extinction Rebellion grou...

The Bank of England was targeted by the Extinction Rebellion group because the bank remitted its decision to stop financing fossil fuel industries. Given that the Bank...

On November 4, 2021, protestors dressed up in giant Pikachu costumes to draw attention to Japan’s support for coal power and coal mining practices.
Dilemma Actio...

The issue was that banks continued to invest in fossil-fuel companies while claiming to support green initiatives. The Race to Disaster campaign was meant to raise awa...

The UK bank Barclays is among the most prominent investors in fossil-fuel companies. Because of this, Brandalism wished to raise awareness of how environmentally damag...

In 2012 homosexuality was decriminalized in Malawi, however in 2016 penalties were re-established for people who identify as such. Homosexuality remains illegal in Mal...

The Hungarian government signed an agreement with Shanghai-based Fudan University in April 2021, on building the campus at a site in Budapest where a dormitory village...

Eswatini has an absolute monarchy and has been under the rule of King Mswati III since 1986. The ruling monarchy did not want political parties and banned them in 1973...

Myanmar dissidents targeted Myanmar’s Military Junta. The three-finger salute was inspired by the Thai resistance movement in 2014.
Dilemma Action: The protester...

Issues and Opposition: Victor Orban has been Hungary’s PM from 1998 to 2002 and then since 2010. Known for his nationalist rhetoric, Orban surprised Hungarians when he...

Issue and Opposition: On 1 February 2021, Myanmar’s democratically elected National League for Democracy (NLD) was replaced by the military junta in a coup. As the mil...

Issue and Opposition: Voter suppression in Georgia has been a hot political topic in the United States for some time. The urgency with which the white Republican legis...

Issue and Opposition: On March 26, 2021, while speaking at a North Oakland Republican Club meeting, Regent Ron Weiser of the University of Michigan indulged in inflamm...

A coup occurred in Myanmar, which has received widespread Western condemnation. People took to the street to protest this military takeover. Mya Thwate Thwate Khaing w...

Tens of thousands of Russians took to the streets on January 23, January 31, and February 2, 2021, to protest against the arrest of political opposition figure Alexey ...

Lukashenka, who has been in power in Belarus since 1994, has faced months of protests after a disputed presidential election in August 2020. Almost 30,000 individuals ...

Russia had jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. He was sentenced to 20 days in jail on January 18. Protests occurred, however, the mother of four Yelena Kalinina ...

Issues and Opposition: On 1 February 2021, Myanmar’s democratically elected National League for Democracy (NLD) was replaced by the military junta in a coup. As the mi...

Issue and Opposition: On 1 February 2021, Myanmar’s democratically elected National League for Democracy (NLD) was replaced by the military junta in a coup. As the mil...

The abduction and murder of 33-year-old Sarah Everard was another brutal reminder of the violence women face at the hands of men. Everard was walking home to Brixton f...

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s return to Russia, where he was subjected to a rapid trial on January 17, 2021, sparked an online protest movement in the form ...

The military, led by army chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s government after claiming, without evidence, that the November 2020 ...

The DEGES, the primary road and highway construction ministry of Germany, sought to clear out the Dannenrôder Forest so that they could construct a new road through th...

In comparison to standard sedans, SUVs generally have poorer fuel efficiency and require more resources to manufacture. The artivism group Brandalism made a set of fak...

This project emerged in response to HSBC’s announcement that it would aim to reduce its carbon emissions to zero by 2050, with activists claiming that this targe...

Amnesty International released data that SARS was responsible for 82 cases of torture and extrajudicial killings. The Nigerian police unit SARS has been the source of ...

Healthcare workers targeted President Jair Bolsonaro over his handling of the COVID09 pandemic. President Bolsonaro was very loose in his efforts to protect the public...

In 2020 a vote was planned to amend the Russian constitution and allow President Vladimir Putin to extend his rule into 2036.At the time all mass gatherings were banne...

The Bank of England continued to fail to adjust operations to support the Paris Agreement.
Dilemma Action: The Yes Men released a hoax press statement from BoE c...

Issue and Opposition: Often labeled as “Europe’s Last Dictator, Belarusian president Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has been in power since 1994. Lukashenko’s most recent elec...

Issue and Opposition: Often labeled as “Europe’s Last Dictator, Belarusian president Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has been in power since 1994. Lukashenko’s most recent elec...

Issue and opposition: Often labeled as “Europe’s Last Dictator, Belarusian president Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has been in power since 1994. Lukashenko’s most recent elec...

Many citizens in Zimbabwe have suffered from the failure of political representation, corruption, human rights issues, freedom of speech, and assembly. Due to this, th...

Thailand’s student-led democracy movement protested the prime minister’s resignation, who seized power in a 2014 coup before he was designated as premier following the...

Issue and Opposition: PM Modi and his party (BJP) are accused of being right-wing Hindu conservatives nurturing anti-Muslim sentiments and formulating anti-Muslim poli...

In Thailand, between 2014 and 2019, military rule replaced whatever was left from the 1990s democratization with authoritarian institutions and hyper-royal nationalism...

Sirivannavari is King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s daughter and in October 2020, protesters said taxpayer’s money was wasted on the international promotion of her...

Since 1932, when a coup ended the monarchy’s absolute rule, there have been countless government coups in Thailand. Most recently in 2014 and every time they say it wi...

Issue and Opposition: In 2020, the Modi government in India introduced three farm bills that resulted in a huge uproar from the farming communities, leftist parties, a...

In 2016, the Belfast City Council contracted Castlebrooke Investments to build Tribeca Belfast, a 12-acre redevelopment plan to revitalize Belfast City Centre through ...

President Alexander Lukashenko has ruled Belarus for 26 years by using several tricks and tactics to remain in power. The arrests of several opposition candidates have...

Issue and Opposition: Sexual assault on women is a global problem as the #Metoo movement has highlighted. Dictatorial regimes in many Latin American countries have res...

In August 2020, the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was nearly fatally poisoned on a flight to Moscow with the lethal nerve agent Novichok reportedly plante...

Protests started in Thailand in July 2020, seeking the removal of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and demanding reform of the Thai monarchy. November 17’s demonstrati...

Issue and Opposition: Poland’s right-wing government is a major source of concern for a section of Polish citizens, especially those who belong to marginalized populat...

Issue and Opposition: Glasgow has several streets that were named after slave owners and tobacco lords. One such street was Cochrane Street named after Andrew Cochrane...

Issue and Opposition: A series of protests following George Floyd’s death due to police brutality in Minneapolis spread across the country in 2020. George Floyd was a ...

Annually more than 32 million animals are slaughtered in the European Community alone for the fur trade. Since 2007, countries such as the United Kingdom, Italy, Austr...

Issue and Opposition: PM Modi and his party (BJP) are accused of being right-wing Hindu conservatives nurturing anti-Muslim sentiments and formulating anti-Muslim poli...

The majority of Lebanese people have been unhappy with the current political order and prime minister Saad el Hariri, who took office again in 2016. Before his reelect...

President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy had separated hundreds of families detained at the US-Mexican border. The children of these migrants found themselves ...

Climate change in Russia has always been an issue of concern, however apathy among the public cannot be changed due to crackdowns on any forms of protest or dissent. O...

President Milo Djukanovic and his government had ruled Montenegro for 30 years. Claims of inter-governmental corruption and rigging of elections were finally put on di...

Issue and Opposition: The Narmada River flows through Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra, feeding thousands of acres and people. The Sardar Sarovar Dam built on ...

Nursultan Nazarbayev is the only president Kazakhstan knew for a long time, taking office in 1990 before the Central Asian country declared independence from the Sovie...

Issue and Opposition: PM Modi and his party (BJP) are accused of being right-wing Hindu conservatives nurturing anti-Muslim sentiments and formulating anti-Muslim poli...

Issue and opposition: The decision of the Madhya Pradesh (MP) government to construct a dam on the Kharak River upset the tribal residents of the Barwani and Khargone ...

Issue and Opposition: As the oldest inhabitants of North Africa, the Amazighs occupy a large swath of land covering five million square kilometers that stretches from ...

In 2018, Daniel Ortega’s government imposed a de facto state of emergency and prohibited any type of peaceful protest in the county. Thus, the police prohibit all prot...

Issue/Opponent: Each year thousands of bulls are slaughtered in bullrings around the world. Bulls have been weakened with drugs or by having sandbags dropped on their ...

Issue and Opposition: Nicolás Maduro Moros has been the president of Venezuela since 2013 despite strong allegations of corruption and oppression against him. Maduro’s...

In 2019, Venezuela continued to face a humanitarian crisis. The UN estimated that nearly three million people had fled the country since 2015 to escape the chronic foo...

Issue and Opposition: In 1842, the Qing Dynasty of China suffered defeat at the hands of the British in the First Opium War. As a result of this defeat, China was forc...

RUAG is one of Europe’s largest bullet manufacturers. The company is a state-owned Swiss weapons manufacturer that has notoriously exported bullets to Brazil for quite...

Enbridge Inc., an energy transport company, was building the Line 3 Replacement Project scheduled to overrun sacred tribal lands along its 1,031-mile route.
Dile...

As part of the movement begun by Greta Thurnsburg’s Fridays for Future, the Extinction Rebellion organization implemented its Global Day of Action to capitalize on the...

Macedonia is frequently among the worst polluters of all countries in the world. Particularly within Skopje City, there are countless illegal landfills where citizens ...

The Zenith Energy company based in Canada used a Northwest Portland freight railway to carry its oil to the United States, raising safety concerns about a potential sp...

Devin Nunes has boasted to California voters that he is a Central Valley farmer in the past. However, in 2018, it was discovered that Nunes did not own a farm in Calif...

The Yes Men co-organized with housing activists in South Africa called Reclaim the City to target Mayor Dan Plato and the Mayoral Committee. The co-organizers of the p...

Diesel is generally considered to be a “dirty” type of fuel for the environment. It can be helped by including a filter on the engine, but that is costly a...

The city of Kolomna is frequently used by Moscow as a place to offset their waste disposal given that the Volovichi trash dump is located nearby. Citizens of the city ...

The water from the village, Xiaohaotu, in the central province of Shaanxi, is polluted with heavy metals, the likely result of nearby coal mining and gas exploration o...

In 2018, construction began on a battery plant in Brest, Belarus. Residents nearby knew that the plant would release harmful toxins into the area and began seeking way...

In Andhra Pradesh, in the village of Komarada Mandal, potholes have been left unattended by the local and regional government. Specifically, the interstate road near t...

In 2018, President Jimmy Morales decided not to renew the mandate of the UN-backed international commission against Impunity in Guatemala. President Morales and his fa...

Brazil’s economic growth in recent decades has left sharp economic disparities to grow between the rich and poor. Brazil’s shopping centers, located in higher-income a...

In 2018, thousands of Russians in St. Petersburg took to the streets to voice their discontent with the Russian government and intergovernmental corruption. These prot...

In 2008, Serzh Sargsyan became president of Armenia. This led to a period of slow economic growth, high unemployment rates, and corruption. After Armenia switched to a...

Issue and Opposition: The Kaveri Water issue between the Indian states of Tamil Nadu (erstwhile the Madras Presidency) and Karnataka (erstwhile the Kingdom of Mysuru) ...

At the end of December 2017, there was a massive movement of people against the economic and social situation in the country. The Iranian government censored social me...

The government of Zimbabwe was neglecting its responsibility to repair damaged roads that were riddled with large potholes.
Dilemma Action: A youth organization ...

Issue and Opposition: By 2018, the Filipinos were tired of the oppression and excesses of Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte served as the 16th Filipino president. His regime la...

Hope to Nope: Graphics 2008-2018 had been a very popular and well-reviewed show portraying political art from well-known activist artists. The show included artwork fr...

Sri Lanka’s civil war, which was fought between the majority Sinhala-dominated government and a minority separatist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTT...

Issue and opposition: In Punjab politics, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) holds a strong position historically. The SAD is a right-leaning party and was formerly a coali...

Potholes have become a frequent nuisance for many road users in southwest England after heavy snow and bad weather. Mill Lane Road, in Swindon UK, is no exception. The...

Issue and Opposition: Pussy Riot, a Russian feminist protest and performance art group of 11 women was founded in 2011. The group rose to fame for its anti-Putin and a...

Issue and Opposition: Boris Nemtsov, the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in the 1990s, was a physicist and a reformist leader who fell into Putin’s bad book because of...

In December 2018, protests broke out in rural Sudan over rising prices of basic goods and ongoing economic issues. The focus of the protests soon became political, and...

Women have been banned from attending sporting events in Iranian stadiums since 1979. The Iranian government insisted on banning women from stadiums due to the vulgar ...

Issue/Opponent: During the 1970s two brothers Arthur Mortimer and Raymond Slacker donated around $3.5 million to help the construction of the Temple of Denduir wing. T...

In 2017, a Mexican organization called Ruta Civica launched a corruption tour in Mexico City. Government corruption at all levels has been found in Mexican institution...

Issue and Opposition: Territorial disputes between India and Pakistan over Kashmir witnessed armed friction across the Line of Control between the nations in 2017. Whi...

The government of Russia, including Putin and Medvedev, is highly corrupt. This government has been accused of being an anti-democratic kleptocracy built on corruption...

Issue and Opposition: In Lebanon, shooting bullets in the air during special events such as weddings are a common practice. Although celebratory shooting is not legali...

In December 2016, the country’s general elections were won with an overwhelming majority by the Social Democratic Party. The PSD and the Alliance of Liberals and Democ...

More than 500 Swedish Nazis marched through the city of Falun to mark International Labour Day on Monday, May 1, 2017. The march was organized by the extreme-right Nor...

Montana, United States, and the Flathead Valley that surrounds the town of Whitefish in particular, has long been a haven for white supremacists and other political ex...

In the community of Steeple Aston, in Oxfordshire, UK, the surface of the road was in really bad condition. According to community members the whole surface of the roa...

Issue and Opposition: The Islamic or Iranian Revolution of 1979 overthrew the government of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and led to the formation of a religious governme...

Issue and Opposition: Indivisible is a grassroots movement of thousands of local groups. The coalition fights for electoral reforms and aims for getting progressive po...

Issue and Opposition: Russians have been pushed to the corner under the oppressive regime of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and President Vladimir Putin. The protester...

Issue and Opposition: Farmers from Ninder village, Jaipur complained that Jaipur Development Authority grabbed their land by coercion to construct a housing project. T...

The British Museum had received annual funding from the oil company BP for more than 20 years. The funding had been viewed as a way for BP to clean up its dirty image ...

The air pollution and smog of Chengdu were unbearable, and protestors marched to protest against the inaction of the city government.
Dilemma Action: The movemen...

In the wake of the 2014 Burkinabé uprising, the Democratic Republic of the Congo experienced a series of protests in which Congolese citizens demanded that President J...

In 2016, the South Korean government, led, at the time, by President Park Geun-hye, proposed protest bans and increasingly used a Cold War-era national security law to...

In 2016, there had been general dissatisfaction with economic growth in Brazil under President Rousseff’s administration, which had been trying to pull the economy out...

Issue/Opponent: Egyptian authorities initiated a “police day” in the country to honor all their police officers on January 25th. That day also marked the f...

In 2016, an anti-immigration group called the Soldiers of Odin patrolled the streets of Tampere, Finland, carrying signs that read “Migrants Not Welcome”. This group h...

The #ThisFlag protests began in response to chaos and crisis in Zimbabwe. When Zimbabwe gained independence from Great Britain in 1980, Robert Mugabe emerged as a free...

In 2015, opposition leader Zoran Zaev released secret recordings which targeted over 20,000 individuals and revealed the corruption of the ministers in Macedonia. The ...

Issue and Opposition: Vatican City’s Decorum Squad failed miserably in keeping the city clean from unsightly graffiti on the walls and trash on the streets. The citize...

The US Army used to manufacture biological and chemical weapons in Fredrick, Maryland. However, when President Nixon outlawed biological weapons, the Army dumped them ...

In drought-ravaged California, producing one pound of beef requires 1,799 gallons of water. The scale of industrialized beef’s water usage is unsustainable in a ...

Royal Dutch Shell spent billions on its plans to drill for oil in the Arctic. In the spring and summer of 2015, they were ramping up operations to go drill in areas ma...

The garbage-filled streets of Beirut were becoming unbearable for the city’s residents during the summer heat of 2015 and began to pose serious health problems. Over 1...

The annual Climate March movement was prohibited by the French government due to a terrorist attack on November 13, 2015. However, protests still wished to demonstrate...

During the COP21 climate talks, many fossil-fuel corporations sponsored the event, allowing them to purchase advertising space to market their products. Furthermore, m...

Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic came into power in 1991, serving as the longest leader in the Balkans and Europe. After 26 years, the citizens of Montenegro started acc...

In 2015, the public in Belgrade, Serbia was dissatisfied with the Waterfront objectives proposed by PM Aleksander Vuvic, as they would block some of the city’s best vi...

Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president in 2015. Trump’s presidential campaign was riddled with profanities and the normalization of bigotry. Still, he stoo...

Issue and Opposition: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict started in 1947 following the Partition Plan (Resolution 181) formulated by the United Nations. The Plan mirrore...

In the early 1980s, military dictator Montt led the military in committing a massacre against 250,000 indigenous Mayans, leading to high murder and crime rates that pl...

The Spanish government introduced legislation in 2015 that would subject millions of citizens to disproportionate fines and even jail time for exercising their right t...

In Morocco, homosexuality is condemned by Article 489 of the penal code which criminalizes “licentious acts against nature with an individual of the same sex.” Being l...

Issue and Opposition: Residents of Barnaul in Siberia were tired of the incompetence and corrupt practices of the local politicians. They realized that the pattern of ...

Issue and Opposition: The Bengaluru roads were in deplorable condition in 2015. The potholes made it impossible to drive through the city, especially after heavy rainf...

Human trafficking of women for sexual exploitation is a huge industry in Montreal, Canada, which is even considered the sex capital of North America. The business of s...

Issue and Opposition: The East Madi Wildlife Reserve, northern Uganda, which stretches across 320 square miles of area (surrounding Apaa village) was inhabited by thou...

Issue and Opposition: The economic and political reforms that started in 2011 under the military junta got a further boost-up after Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from hou...

FEMEN identifies itself as a radical feminist group. They object to the sex trade, to political or religious groups that oppress women, and to the oppression of gay ri...

Activists wanted the government to scrap a plan to operate a newly constructed nuclear power plant – the fourth in densely populated Taiwan. The protests in Taiw...

Students targeted the government of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha. They demanded Prayuth’s departure from the government, a new constitution, and an end to the hara...

Issue and opposition: Guggenheim Museum has often been the target of activists because of its low wages, deplorable working conditions, and other abusive labor practic...

In 2014, Fidel and Raul, two prominent political leaders in Cuba, along with the rest of the Cuban government, were creating countless human rights violations against ...

For decades, far-right extremists have marched through the streets of Wunsiedel, Germany to promote their ideologies and commemorate the Third Reich. In 2014, the marc...

Issue and Opponet: After the coup in May 2014, the military junta banned public demonstrations against the authorities and political meetings. Likewise, social network...

Two female students were told to stop kissing while shopping in a Sainsbury supermarket in Brighton, UK, and were asked to leave the store by the security guard, after...

In 1997, the British transferred control of Hong Kong to China under a “one country, two systems” plan. Under this plan, a 50-year term of Chinese rule was...

In November 2013, thousands of people, mainly students, gathered in Kyiv, Ukraine, to protest against then-President Viktor Yanukovich‘s decision to withdraw from a po...

The Bangladeshi garment industry has exploded over the past five years and it’s been a major driver in the economy. Gap clothes are produced in countries like Banglade...

Opponents accuse Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government of ruling in an increasingly authoritarian manner and meddling in people’s private live...

Issue and Opposition: Yoweri Museveni won the Presidential election in 2011 for the fourth time. Known for his role in throwing out Idi Amin in 1979, his political car...

Issues and Opposition: In 2014, Myanmar was going through a transition from oppressive military rule to a quasi-civilian elected government. Although the election in 2...

President Ma Ying-jeou and the Kuomintang (KMT) ruling party of Taiwan aimed for closer economic ties with China through a free trade agreement called the Cross-Strait...

Expressions of sexuality and public display of affection are strongly opposed by the right-wing political parties in India such as RSS. Their opposition is based on th...

Nawaz Sharif has served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1990-1993, 1997-1999, and 2013-2017. After first coming to power as Prime Minister in 1990, Nawaz pushed for...

Issue and Opposition: From 2004 to 2013, food prices in India increased by a staggering 157 percent. The situation became so bad that despite being a leading vegetable...

China usually possesses one of the worst air quality indexes in the world, and smog is a frequent phenomenon in Chengdu. In China, environmental protests are highly fr...

The Maules Creek coal mine, funded by Whitehaven Coal, remained operational despite previous protests and attempts to shut it down. Protests such as this arose and wil...

Densely populated Delhi, India, has a considerable sanitation challenge. This is particularly noticeable in South Delhi, where despite having a more affluent populatio...

The European Investment Bank had significant investments in coal and had refused to implement a more climate-friendly investment policy.
Dilemma action: Activist...

Shell teamed up with Russian oil company Gazprom to engage in Arctic drilling; Greenpeace didn’t think it was getting enough attention. They worked with the Yes ...

In 2013 a huge pothole on one of Tijuana’s main highways was left unrepaired despite several petitions from citizens to the local government. The pothole, or as referr...

In Raipur, India potholes have been left unattended by the local government and had begun to pose a risk to the safety of travelers and commuters. The situation is par...

President Viktor Yanukovych served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 – 2014. In 2013, he had initially promised the Ukrainian people he would work to ...

Dhondup Wangchen is a Tibetan filmmaker and activist who was detained by Chinese authorities in March 2008 on charges related to a 25-minute documentary titled “Leavin...

Ankara subway officials in Turkey made an announcement in May of 2013 asking passengers to “act by moral rules” after capturing a couple kissing on security cameras. T...

Armenia’s Central Election Commission issued preliminary results from presidential elections, held in February 2013, placing President Serzh Sarkisian in the lead with...

Issue and Opponents: This event resulted from the Indonesian control over West Papua. It was designed to highlight the abuses faced by West Papuans under Indonesian ru...

One of the main precepts of Islam is that all healthy adults must refrain from eating, drinking, smoking, and sexual intercourse between dawn and sunset during Ramadan...

Three Moroccan teens, a 15-year-old and 14-year-old couple and their 15-year-old photographer, were arrested on October 3, 2013. Their crime was posting a picture of t...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan became the prime minister of Turkey in 2003. He enjoyed popular public support at the beginning of his rule but quickly started facing dissent as ...

Issue and Opposition: The Tiananmen Square protests were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing in 1989. The students and other activists began t...

Issue and Opposition: The establishment of a military government in Egypt in 2013 led to socio-economic and political instability. People were so afraid of the state v...

Monsanto intended to conduct widescale planting of GMO corn in Mexico. This would have been the first time GM corn had been planted on a large commercial scale in Mexi...

Australia’s Whitehaven Coal Company continued to support coal mining, which is detrimental to the environment. A project of theirs, the coal project in Maules Creek, h...

To protest the new partnership between Gazprom and Dutch Shell and the damage that it will cause to the environment, a group of protestors aligned with the Yes Men, Gr...

Beginning in February 2011, Bahrain saw sustained pro-democracy protests, centered at Pearl Roundabout in the capital of Manama, as part of the wider Arab Spring. Insp...

Issue/Opponent: Today 3.6 billion people are still living with poor quality toilets that have ruined their health and pollute their environment. The Inadequate sanitat...

The Heartland Institute is considered a pseudo-think. It is the leading denier of global warming and is often cited by conservative politicians. The Heartland Institut...

The Bank of America had been caught up in multiple scandals by 2012. One of the main concerns centered on the bank being one of the top bankrollers of coal.
Dile...

In 2012, BP was accepted as a sustainability partner for the London 2021 Olympics. Climate activists were critical of this decision given BP’s poor environmental recor...

Royal Dutch Shell was ramping up efforts to drill in the Arctic. Spent billions on its plans to drill for oil in the Arctic.
Dilemma Action: A gala was announced...

The opponent was Enbridge Incorporated, which intended to construct an oil pipeline nearby the Bella Bella indigenous community. The pipeline would have immense health...

Issue and Opposition: The Narmada River flows through Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra, feeding thousands of acres and people. The Sardar Sarovar Dam built on ...

Before current President Faure came to power, his father occupied the President’s office for almost four decades after staging a coup in 1967 and taking power. F...

Many oil and gas companies have viewed the Far North as the next frontier for fossil fuel exploration. The state-owned oil company, Gazprom, intended to become the fir...