Global GRASSROOTS
ACTIVISTS Network

Thailand

• Democratization, youth movement (Bangkok) 

• Save the Mekong River, ethnic rights, land rights, environmental rights, (Chiang Khon) 

Laos

• Free Laos Campaign, Democratization, religious freedom and rights, freedom of speech, land rights

Myanmar

• Democratization, migrant rights, environmental rights (Shan State)

Cambodia

• Land rights, democratization, freedom of speech, migrant rights, Phnom Pen

Singapore

• Freedom of speech, democratization 

Taiwan

• Democratization, youth movement (Taipei) (Institute and University)

Hong Kong

• Democratization, freedom of speech, youth movement 

Tibet

• Free Tibet Movement, Self-determination (Free Tibet Movement, NYC and India) 

West Papua

• US Exile, Self-determination

India

• Tribal Women’s Movement (West Bengal)

• Ekta Parishad, Gandhi-based movement for poor and landless (Chhattisgarh, elsewhere) 

• Movement for a free Assam, past liberation movements and armed struggle (Assam) 

Pakistan

• Ethnic rights and democratization (Balochistan) (Ameer)

• Human rights and ethnic rights (Sindh province) 

• Pashtun ethnic rights and human rights (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)

• Women’s rights and gender justice (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) 

• LGBTQ rights and women’s rights (Islamabad/Lahore) 

Sri Lanka

• Peace and justice movement for Tamil rights/Transitional justice and against Islamophobia (Chaminda)

Nepal

• Victim’s rights, ex-combatants and child soldiers, transitional justice movement (Kathmandu/Portugal/Western Nepal) (Ram and Lenin)

• National Disability Rights campaign and movement (Kathmandu) (Sushil and Basudev)

• Human Rights, good governance, anti-corruption, anti-violent extremism (Kathmandu) (Subindra and Chiranjibi)

• Women’s rights, gender justice, Action Aid (Kathmandu) (Anjana)

Maldives

• Good governance and democratization (Hamza)

Sierra Leone

• Health care rights and anti-corruption campaigns (Freetown) (Asad and Boi Jeneh)

Guinea

• Women’s rights, livelihood rights and FGM campaigns (Aliou)
  

Nigeria

• Farmers and Herders Conflict and movement for security and rights (Makerde) (Laz)
• Peace and Nonviolent Conflict Research of Movements (Abuja, Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution) (Taowfik)
• Niger Delta environmental and livelihood movement, Ogoni/Ethnic rights (Port Harcourt) (Ineba)
• Women’s rights and environmental justice (Olanike)

Cameroon

• Anglophone rights, livelihood, and democratization movement, (Buea, Douala, Yaounde)  (Bergeline/Edna/Jimm) (Stephen)
• Women’s and girls’ rights, (Limbe) (Delphine)
• Farmer’s rights, youth movement, African Middle East Leadership project, Pan-Africanism (US/Cameroon) (Nwafor)

Cote d’Ivoire

• Disability rights, human rights (Abidjan) (Ahouty)

Burkino Faso

• Human Rights, livelihood rights, anti-violent extremism (Roger and Yves)

DRC

• Human rights, livelihood rights, ethnic conflict, and democratization (Goma) (Claude, Ghislain, and Jean de Dieu, LUCHA)
• Human rights, livelihood rights, creative resistance and art/Music, Pan-Africanism (Kinshasa) (Gahizi)

Ethiopia

• Ethnic rights, democratization, UK/Addis (Bekele)

Burundi

• Democratization, women’s rights, anti-violent extremism, (US/Burundi) (Fikiri)

Uganda

• Democratization, ethnic rights, land rights, livelihood rights, anti-police brutality (Kampala and Northern Uganda) (Solidarity Uganda/Phil) (Scovia) (Johncation)
• Women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, freedom of the press (Kampala) (Rosebell)

Kenya

• Religious minority rights and anti-Islamophobia, anti-violent extremism, anti-corruption campaigns (Mombasa and eastern Kenya) (Hussein, HAKI Africa, Hassan, MUHURI, Fahad)
• Land rights, livelihood rights, anti-police brutality, democratization, human rights (Nairobi, rural areas) (Mumbi, Julius, Frances, Garang) (Kisimu) (Sungu)
• Democratization, human rights, livelihood rights, land rights, LGBTQI rights (Collins and Geoffrey)

Eritrea

• Democratization, ethnic rights, women’s rights, Pan-Africanism (Sweden/Eritrea) (Rahel)

Zimbabwe

• Extractive industry exploitation, environmental justice, land rights, livelihood rights, (Mutare) 
• Human rights, extra-judicial killings, democratization (Harare) 
• Labor rights, freedom of speech, democratization (Harare) 

South Africa

• Student right’s campaign and livelihood campaigns (Durban, KwaZulu-Natal) 
• Land rights, Pan-African movement, women’s rights (Johannesburg) 

Madagascar

• Anti-corruption, good governance and transparency movement (Ke)

Sudan

• Democratization, land rights, anti-militarism, women’s rights (Khartoum) (Zahra) (US/Sudan) (Azaz) (Khartoum)

South Sudan

• Democratization, anti-militarism, ethnic rights, land rights

Tunisia

• Democratization, freedom of speech, Pan-Africanism, African Youth Movement and Afresist, Special Envoy for the African Union, Feminist/Women’s rights, civil society strengthening (Tunis/Addis)

Mauritania

• Anti-slavery movement (Nouakchott) 

Western Sahara

• Self-Determination

Turkey

• Ethnic rights (Kurds), women’s rights and gender justice, anti-militarism, democratization (Istanbul) 

Palestine

• Self-determination struggle, land rights, ethnic and religious rights, anti-occupation (West Bank)
• Self-determination, anti-blockade, democratization (Gaza)

Israel

• Palestinian Bedouin unrecognized villages, human rights, anti-blockade, refugee rights (African) (near Sderot) 
• Democratic One-State Campaign, human rights, anti-occupation, anti-Zionist, anti-militarism (West Jerusalem) 

Lebanon

• Palestinian and other refugee rights, freedom of speech, livelihood rights, youth  
• Democratization, anti-corruption (Beirut) (Rania)
• LGBTQI rights, women’s rights (US/Beirut)

Yemen

• Livelihood rights, democratization, anti-militarism, youth movement (Sanaa) 

Afghanistan

• Democratization, ethnic rights, land rights, anti-corruption (Kabul/US exile) 

Syria

• Syrian refugees, Kurdish rights, refugee rights (Gaziantep)

Serbia

• Democratization, freedom of speech, anti-corruption (CANVAS)

Hungary

• Democratization, anti-authoritarian, Roma/Minority rights, homeless rights (Budapest) (Balint)

Romania

• Anti-corruption, democratization (Kai)

Armenia

• Democratization (Anna, Lilit and Narek)

Azerbaijan

• Democratization, anti-corruption, freedom of speech (Living in Istanbul)

Kyrgyzstan

• Student movement, democratization (Kara-Koo)

Ukraine

• Democratization, anti-militarization (Kyiv) (Andrii)

Mexico

• Democratization, livelihood, environmental justice, youth movement, nonviolent institute (Mexico City) 

Honduras

• Afro-Colombian rights, land rights, right to healthcare, democratization, anti-militarism (La Cieba) 

Guatemala

• Anti-corruption and anti-militarism (Guatemala City) 
• Land rights, indigenous rights, transitional justice and human rights, (Guatemala City) (Northeast Guatemala) (Rigoberta) 
• Women’s rights, gender justice, livelihood rights, indigenous rights 

Colombia

• Youth movement, democratization and peace process, land rights (Bogota) (Xiomy)
• Peace process, democratization, student rights, land rights (Bogota) (Freddy)
• Peace community, anti-militarism, land rights, (San Jose de Apartado) (Jesus Emilio)
• Land rights, peasant rights, anti-corporation, Afro-Colombian (PBI, Gimena)

Brazil

• Indigenous rights, environmental rights (Amazon/US) (Maira)
• Landless peasant’s movement (currently connecting with Kurt’s connection)

• Poor People’s Campaign 

• Indigenous Rights equality and justice and other campaigns in Oregon 

• Palestinian Rights Campaigns 

• Sunrise Movement (Co-leaders)

• 350.org/Environmental justice and Climate Crisis 

• Red Nation/Indigenous Rights/Self-Determination Immigrant Rights 

• Women’s National March 

• Momentum Training Institute 

• Waging Nonviolence (News outlet: Eric/Phil)

• James Lawson Institute 

• Nonviolence International 

• Beautiful Rising/Beautiful Trouble 

• Pace Bene and Campaign Nonviolence 

• Everytown for Gun Safety/Mom’s Demand Action (Sensible Gun Safety Movement) 

• Black Lives Matter 

• Grassroots Alexandria 

• Code Pink Anti-militarism, feminist values and policies, US foreign policy issues