In 2005, candidates tended to be local businessmen, activists and professionals.

Nusra has also arrested civil society activists, including journalists and local council members, and has been responsible for sectarian attacks.

In 1998, grassroots activists convinced the Chilean government and local authorities to apply for UNESCO world heritage status for Valparaíso.

The director chats with activists in English while some songs and local conversations can be heard in Arabic in the background.

Soon after the Hong Kong activists' protest landing on the disputed islands, Japanese citizens, including local assembly members, staged their own landing there.

Equally important, local activists in many of these countries are starting to use EITI as an opening to demand greater public accountability for government spending.

Yet in the face of opposition from local ethnic Kachin and environmental and political activists, former President Thein Sein suspended the project in September 2011.

In response to the situation, peace activists from all over the world have travelled to the island and urging more international support for the local struggle.

Reports from activists stated that a meeting was held on Sunday between HTS, local council members, and dignitaries, and a statement was issued regarding the incidents.

In 2011 12 EngageMedia and Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation collaborated with local organisations in Jayapura and Merauke to teach Papuan activists video production and distribution skills.

Local human rights activists said that they had been told by women who had escaped the town that their daughters, some as young as 10, had been kidnapped.

As famine spread that summer, Stalin refined his explanation hunger was sabotage, local Communist activists were the saboteurs, protected by higher authorities, and all were paid by foreign spies.

To make things even worse, the Syrian government has been bombing the area since Sunday according to both local activist Hatem al Dimashqi and the London based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the Syrian conflict through a network of local activists.

Many human rights activists, political activists and protesters were arrested, while others were reported missing.

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Indian activists are outraged.

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In cities around the world, Iranian activists purchased rolls of green cloth from local sources, and quickly collected countless thousands of signatures from Iranians and non Iranians alike between July 10 and 12.

In its attempt to silence activists, the regime has stepped up its crackdown against journalists, bloggers and video activists.

Constitution, elections, comics, and cyber activists.

Female activists robbed, beaten and dumped

by SWPC Occupy Wall Street activists.

This led activists to announce success.

The 403 Access Denied Checker , which was developed by the Tunisian blogger and activist Astrubal, is not a circumvention tool it was designed, rather, to help activists in nations where censorship takes place to test local blockages.

Global Voices hopes to continue to replicate this model in other countries in the region by facilitating partnerships with local organizations that share this common mission furthering the impact of the work of these young digital activists.

UNAMSIL has continued to train several local human rights and pro democracy organizations, as well as the staff of some international non governmental organizations, who in turn are training human rights monitors and activists throughout the country.

No to the oppressing security acts against activists.

Activists at the beginning of the 470km march.

Activists say she was arrested right after that.

After the announcement of results, many activists celebrated

Fellow activists paid tribute by carrying red roses.

Bahraini activists are campaigning to stop the crackdown.

Many democracy activists have been arrested throughout the country.

My wife and I are health activists and enthusiasts.

Twisting an online fraud protection law to arrest activists

Two women activists were disqualified from running the race.

Activists stated that thousands of people attended his funeral.

The men of Gaza, the activists or policemen of Hamas whom we observe through our military binoculars, were in the past the activists and policemen of Fatah.

Yet activists have repeatedly labeled me a climate change denier.

Women movement activists are working hard to ensure her release.

Activists and bloggers in Lebanon have also begun using Twitter.

Lots of democracy activists are not happy, especially leftists ones.

Activists attempt to stop the blasting of coastline in Jeju.

Sudanese prosecutors use pornographic photos to support case against activists

The term community in this context includes local people, local institutions, local agencies and the local council.