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Featured Case: South Korean students defend LGBT rights

In December 2011, South Korean students occupied the Seoul Metropolitan council building to guarantee the rights of LGBT youth. With both domestic and international support the campaigners quickly won success. A full account is featured here. (Photo by ILGA)

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Geographical Mapping of Campaigns

Nonviolent action campaigns are waged all over the world. See a distribution of the campaigns across the globe in our new interactive map.

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New Campaigns Added Weekly!

There are now over 630 campaigns described on this database, and new cases are added every week. These campaigns come from all over the world and address a wide range of issues.

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Waves of Nonviolent Action

Some campaigns inspire others, creating a kind of "wave" of campaigns within or across countries. The 2011 'Arab wave' is an example. On the database we have grouped campaigns into several waves

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