She's an activist from the Right, and I'm an activist from the Left.

Ory Okolloh on becoming an activist

Enter the evidence based activist, the factivist.

Annie Lennox Why I am an HIV AIDS activist

Israeli Activist Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.

Aung Hlaing Win, an NLD activist, was arrested in May.

Layma was not an activist, she was a mother of three.

Israeli Activist I was sure we were all going to die.

And Somaly Mam, a Cambodian activist who fights passionately against child prostitution.

How one activist came to learn the answer to the question 'Whose Streets?'

Nelson decided to become a treatment activist and join up with other groups.

You know, I was a very young journalist activist at an early age.

A Filipina activist once said to me, How do you cook a rice cake?

Brooks is a 71 year old former Georgia state congressman and lifelong civil rights activist.

Denying a visa to Russian human rights activist Sergey Kovalyov? An apology to Saddam Hussein?

So we've got this activist group that's this grassroots group that's come out of the site.

The incident occurred last December, as he and another attorney traveled to prepare the re trial of a blind, self taught legal activist. That activist had been framed by local authorities after he had denounced abuses by the local family planning authorities.

Professional groups adhere to transnational standards. Activist groups, ranging from environmentalists to terrorists, also connect across borders.

Author and activist Isabel Allende discusses women, creativity, the definition of feminism and, of course, passion in this talk.

4.9 The State party points out that the complainant was not a political activist when he lived in Mexico.

Jesús Mustafa Felipe, activist supporter of the Varela project, 25 years' imprisonment under article 91 of the Criminal Code.

Similarly, after North Korean shells killed innocent South Korean civilians in November 2010, China remained essentially silent. In a carefully calibrated response, South Korea sent its ambassador to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for the imprisoned Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo in December 2010.

In her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 2011, Yemeni political activist Tawakkol Karman, made the point clearly The solution to women s issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together.

I've spent my life as a warrior, working for women's issues, working on political campaigns, being an activist for the environment.

It has also made for new kinds of allies, with activist investors like Carl Icahn tweeting their intentions and markets responding. Likewise, those who in other circumstances might see activist investors as natural adversaries can agree with the positions that they take, such as concerns about executive compensation or corporate social responsibility.

And one activist actually found a contract from a Western company for the sale of surveillance technology to the Egyptian security forces.

As a young middle class Nigerian activist, I launched myself along with a whole generation of us into the campaign to stop the government.

Youth should be seen as social change agents, just as much as advocacy non governmental organizations, women's groups or other activist groups in society.

On the left there's a photo taken by an Egyptian activist who was part of the storming of the Egyptian state security offices in March.

According to the information received, Mr. Liu Fenggang, a citizen of China born on 23 December 1959, is a religious activist usually resident in Beijing.

I was very, very fortunate a couple of years later to have met Zackie Achmat, the founder of Treatment Action Campaign, an incredible campaigner and activist.

All those initiatives aim to fulfil the constitutional principle of a genuinely participatory and activist democracy, of the people, for the people and with the people.

In this respect, drone warfare reinforces the perverse nature of asymmetrical wars. In her recent book Drone Warfare Killing by Remote Control, Medea Benjamin, a peace activist and shrewd observer of international relations, makes a crucial point While drones make it easier to kill some bad guys, they also make it easier to go to war.

Musician and activist Bono accepts the 2005 TED Prize with a riveting talk, arguing that aid to Africa isn't just another celebrity cause it's a global emergency.

Shareholder activists can also claim other (at least partial) victories at Yahoo!, where a shareholder activist forced the newly appointed CEO to resign for falsifying his educational credentials.

Musician and activist Peter Gabriel shares his very personal motivation for standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS and tells stories of citizen journalists in action.

The activists I interviewed had nothing in common, literally, except for one thing, which was that they all cited their mothers as their most looming and important activist influences.

There have also been extensive beatings and arbitrary detentions. When Farai Maguwu, a Zimbabwean human rights activist, disseminated information about the abuses, he was arrested (he has since been released).

In an emotionally charged talk, MacArthur winning activist Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx and shows how minority neighborhoods suffer most from flawed urban policy.

And surely, at three and four years old, I was listening to the soothing sound of her voice, but I think I was also getting my first lesson in activist work.

As Riadh Guerfali, the veteran digital activist from Tunisia, remarked over this incident, Before, things were simple you had the good guys on one side and the bad guys on the other.

After the murder of a human rights activist in Bukavu in July, a military commander intervened in the investigation and ordered the release of the suspects, which highlighted the lack of judicial independence.

From 1960 to 1973, African Governments pursued activist policies in protecting industries and defending livelihoods, but the 1973 oil crisis led to serious indebtedness, worsened by the International Monetary Fund's structural adjustment policies.

Activist Caroline Casey tells the story of her extraordinary life, starting with a revelation . In a talk that challenges perceptions, Casey asks us all to move beyond the limits we may think we have.

As Wael Ghonim, the Google Egyptian executive by day, secret Facebook activist by night, famously said to CNN after Mubarak stepped down, If you want to liberate a society, just give them the Internet.