Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 12/2020

Political movements

“People gaze at their screens the whole day.”
Social media

Increasingly manipulated forum

Online trolls’ disinformation is undermining Philippine democracy

Upset about extrajudicial executions: protester at an anti-Duterte rally in Manila in September 2020.
Authoritarian rule

Fact and fiction

In the Philippines, pro-Duterte activism on social media keeps people agitated and misinformed

An event marking the one-month anniversary of the explosion in Beirut’s port, as a result of which the government was forced to step down.
Lebanon

Quick reforms are not in sight in Beirut

In Lebanon, the sense of optimism that was in the air a year ago is gone

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Indigenous organisations can mobilise masses in Bolivia: people in La Paz protested against the  construction of a road through an Amazonian nature reserve in 2011.
Identities

Pulling the levers of power in Bolivia

With or without representation parliament, political movements have long influenced Bolivian politics

One of the priorities for Older People’s Associations is women’s participation, as here in Cambodia.
Senior citizens

A mobilising force

Older People’s Associations organise social security, financial support and political influence for older people

Mass anti-government protests in Algiers in March 2020.
Algeria

Protestors still call for genuine democracy in Algeria

Why the constitutional referendum did not end Algeria’s political crisis

State repression can backfire: Belarussian people gather on 20 November in Minsk at the funeral of a person who allegedly died after being beaten by the police.
Blog

Why non-violence makes sense for Belarussian opposition

Two political scientists argue that civil disobedience is the most promising way to oppose an authoritarian regime

People voted in spite of the pandemic.
Chile’s constitutional referendum

Revolt of the masses

Aiming for a more egalitarian society, Chileans will revise their constitution

Algerians protesting for the release of journalist Khaled Drareni in Algiers.
Our view

Movements are often formally leaderless - and yet powerful

How political movements differ from formal organisations – and why non-violence often leads to success

Participant in protest rally in Lagos State on 16 October.
Police misconduct

Sudden eruption of anger

Why Nigeria’s government found itself forced to disband a notorious police in October

The website of Queer Youth Uganda.
Human rights

“LGBT people still tend to hide”

Though things have improved, LGBT people still face serious harassment in Uganda