They raised a banner and urged for their salary to be paid.

9.14 Children are not required to attend public schools.

We threw the question out to the Global Voices community asking for their thoughts on online campaigns.

Permanent members have no need to pass, on a regular basis, the democratic test.

Morsi's supporters have since been staging protests calling for his return to power.

The proceedings opened, movingly and appropriately, with a statement read by Global Voices members calling for the release of jailed online media workers and activists.

Millions of people from all walks of life marched across Egypt today, calling on president Hosni Mubarak to step down.

Today, Egyptians take to the streets again calling for Morsi to step down and for an end to the Muslim Brotherhood rule of Egypt.

In May 2006, hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in Gaza and the West Bank demanding payment of their wages.

Securities issuers and traders were required to release more information, and were subjected to higher transparency standards.

IFEX launches an International Day to End Impunity on November 23, demanding justice for free speech advocates.

Twitter users are expressing their disdain using the hashtag Dendias, requesting, amongst other things, that Dendias should quit.

Four individual claimants that were identified as overlapping with four E4 claimants assert new or greater losses in respect of E4 claims and have provided evidence that reduced the risk of overstatement arising from evidentiary shortcomings in the E4 claims.

Several Islamist bloggers have launched a campaign against the Gaza Strip blockade and to ask worldwide Muslims to help Palestinians.

Students are protesting against the dismal state of public schools in Brazil and demanding better teaching, infrastructure and food.

Thousands of Iranian citizens protested in Khomeini Shahr and urged authorities to arrest thugs who raped several women during a marriage ceremony.

The initial agreement provoked public outcry as many Egyptians took to streets, calling for Sisi to step down and accusing him of selling the lands.

At the euphoric outset of the 1989 demonstrations, more than 80,000 students marched through the streets of Beijing demanding a more responsive government.

None of these things would have been achieved if it were not for the people who have campaigned and lobbied, demanding not charity, but justice.

Like their counterparts across the Arab world, Mauritanian activists have been protesting Arab Spring like for political and economic reforms for almost a year.

Moroccans are petitioning for the decriminalisation of homosexuality by the repeal of article 489 of the Moroccan Penal Code, which criminalises lewd or unnatural acts with an individual of the same sex.

On 16 March, around 150 protested in front of the Ministry of Interior demanding the release of prisoners of conscience, whose families also took part in the protests.

Millions marched across different towns and cities to demand the end president Hosni Mubarak's 30 year rule.

More than two hundred people signed an online petition and called on the UN to take action about the situation of cultural activists particularly the case of these two young poets in Iran.

Indigenous organizations, TIPNIS inhabitants and their supporters began a new long march on April 27, 2012, from Trinidad to La Paz demanding an end to the road project.

Those who did not were expected to fend mostly for themselves.

Once quashed by their dictatorships, people upped their demands, calling for a change in the regime.

On the International Day of Non Violence (2 October, 2012), the stateless community of Kuwait decided to protest to demand their right to citizenship.

In early May, they also occupied the plenary of the assembly demanding the creation of a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) to investigate the scheme.

This post is part of our special coverage Global Development 2011. Thousands of students in the Philippines took to the streets on July 19, 2011, to demand a higher budget for education from President Noynoy Aquino just a few days before his State of the Nation Address.

On March 16, following a day of rage in Syria, a group of around 150 protesters gathered outside of the Interior Ministry in Damascus, demanding the release of political prisoners.

In the same county, in early May, Bangladeshi peacekeepers fired over the heads of a crowd of ex fighters who rioted to demand payment of their allowances.

If they liked an aria, they would holler and suggest that it be done again as an encore, not at the end of the show, but immediately.

In 1965, the 50th anniversary of the genocide, a 24 hour mass protest was initiated in Yerevan demanding recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Soviet authorities.

The demonstrators have been clamoring for justice for the victims of the genocidal massacres of 1971 that led to the former East Pakistan s secession from Pakistan.

Arab bloggers here are discussing the role of all these means in the ongoing protests in Egypt, where thousands of people are taking to the streets to call of political and economic reforms. Moroccan blogger Hisham wrote here about the role of media in the demonstrations in Egypt.

See the heroes of Manbij, who despite the top security in the city, took the streets asking the extremist group to leave the city.

As thousands of Egyptians march from Tahrir Square, to call for an end to president Hosni Mubarak's 30 year rule, the world cheers on.

During the global protests in over 1000 cities and 82 countries this October 15, people gathered under the motto United for global change to demand their rights and a true democracy.

Supporters of Nidaa Tounes who gathered outside the parliament on the evening of 18 March demanded the use of capital punishment against those involved in terrorism related activities , privately owned Radio Mosaique FM reported.

As the death toll in Syria increases, the International Community is running out of patience and hardening its tone against Syrian president Bashar Al Assad demanding for change and reforms.

In addition to those in the country, all over the world members of the Moroccan diaspora have protested against police and state repression in the Rif, calling for the release of political prisoners.

Today is being dubbed as Departure Friday or Final Friday, and millions are being roused to march to the streets to bring down Mubarak's regime after the noon Friday prayers.

Since the beginning of February, hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis have been occupying a major intersection called Shahbag in the heart of Dhaka, calling for capital punishment for war crimes committed during the country s liberation from Pakistan in 1971.

In March 2011, when Syrians started taking to the streets to demand freedom and justice, it was hard to imagine that a year later the regime would have killed thousands of people and tortured and arrested countless others.