Activist example sentences

Adivasi Demands and the 1989 Act The 1989 Act is important for another reason – Adivasi activists refer to it to defend their right to occupy land that was traditionally theirs.Narmada Bachao Andolan or Save Narmada Movement is a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) that mobilised tribal people, farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists against the Sardar Sarovar Dam being built across the Narmada river in Gujarat.Pakistani media, human right organisations and democracy activists said that the referendum was based on malpractices and fraud.That is why citizens, social activists and organisations have been demanding reforms in our electoral system.Janu, an Adivasi activist, has also pointed out that one of the violators of Constitutional rights guaranteed to tribal people are governments in the various states of India – for it is they who allow non-tribal encroachers in the form of timber merchants, paper mills etc, to exploit tribal land, and to forcibly evict tribal people from their traditional forests in the process of declaring forests as reserved or as sanctuaries.Women's organisations and activists have been demanding a similar reservation of at least one-third of seats in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies for women.That is why citizens, social activists and organisations have been demanding reforms in our electoral system.Political activists accused of even the most trivial offences have been jailed.Similarly, democratic reforms are to be carried out mainly by political activists, parties, movements and politically conscious citizens.Parties have lakhs of members and activists spread all over the country.Activists have asked that those who have forcibly encroached upon tribal lands should be punished under this law.In response to this pressure from environmental activists and others, in the years following the Bhopal gas tragedy, the Indian government introduced new laws on the environment.Her sphere is the home, the care of the children, the nurturing of the family … Do we require any further proof that given such differences, equality between the sexes would only endanger harmony and destroy the dignity of the family?' Louise Otto-Peters (1819-95) was a political activist who founded a women's journal and subsequently a feminist political association.