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“IT’S TIME TO COME TOGETHER”: CROWDSOURCING A CITIZEN RESPONSE TO HURRICANE SANDY

The Soviet education system and 1990s reform efforts

Gender inequality and challenges for advocacy in Pakistan

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE BYSTANDERS? INSPIRING THE CROWD TO TACKLE THE WORLD’S BULLYING EPIDEMIC

“Let My People Go!”: Natan Sharansky and the Movement to Save Soviet Jews

Selected Tavaana Democracy and Human Rights Case Studies

Malaysia1870-1963: The Transition of the Colonial Vassals of Pax Britannica to the Stable Rock of Federal Constitutional Monarchy during the Cold War

Japan: 1853-1952 The Centennial Struggle Between Militarism and the Transition to Liberal Constitutionalism

Tennis’ Ace Card: Billie Jean King and the Battle for Women’s Equality

Uniao Nacional dos Estudantes: Generations of Student Struggle for Brazilian Rights

Through the Eye of the Needle: Frances Perkins and the Seamstresses’ Rebellion

The Rose Revolution: When Georgia said “Enough!”

Nirbhaya – Fearless One: Ending Gender-Based Violence in India with Institutional and Cultural Changes

The Abolitionist Movement in the United States

Women Organizing for Change: Indonesia’s Law on the Elimination of Domestic Violence

The Singing Revolution and Estonia’s Non-Violent Independence Movement

The Americans With Disabilities Act

Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

The Fight Against Air Pollution in China

Ahead of Their Time: The U.S. Women’s Suffrage Movement

The First Nobel and the Last Girl: Nadia Murad’s Quest for Justice

It’s Time! The Orange Revolution and Ukraine’s Struggle for Democracy

Women’s Day Off: Organizing for Equal Pay in Iceland

TENNIS’ ACE CARD: BILLIE JEAN KING AND THE BATTLE FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY

Cause Without a Rebel: Silent Spring and the Rise of Environmentalism

THE “DEAF PRESIDENT NOW” MOVEMENT AT GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY

THE HELSINKI PROCESS AND THE FALL OF COMMUNIST REGIMES IN EUROPE

Enemies of the Nation: Fighting for Garment Workers’ Rights in Bangladesh

Mzalendo: Keeping an Eye on Kenya’s Parliament

Taking Back Egypt’s Streets: The HarassMap Campaign to End Sexual Harassment

A Legacy of Religious Tolerance in India

The Russian Movement Against Putin: Imagining a Different Russia

Asma Jahangir: Human Rights for All

The Race to Protect the Middle East’s Past and Safeguard Its Future

Enemies Of the Nation: Fighting For Garment Worker’s Right In Bangladesh

Poets, Peace, and Perseverance: Veiled Threats to Afghanistan’s Domestic Violence

Constitutions and Democratic Transitions

From Polarization to Consensus: The Story of Chile’s Long Democratic Transition

The Spanish Transition to Democracy

Mohammad Nourizad, Pioneering Defender of the Rights of Baha’is

Cyrus the Great and Religious Tolerance

Middle Eastern and North African Heroes of the Holocaust

Hitler’s Pet Canary Revolts: Denmark’s Living Wall of Resistance

Saviours of the Last Ark: How Two Communities United to Save a City’s Last Synagogue

Breaking Tradition: Ending Female Genital Cutting in West Africa

After the Arab Spring: Building Consensus and a Democratic Future in Tunisia

Cause Without a Rebel: Silent Spring and the Rise of Environmentalism

How the Women of Liberia Fought for Peace and Won

Empowering Nairobi’s Slums: The Map Kibera Project

Protesting Terror in Colombia: One Million Voices Against FARC

Creating an Underground Press: Samizdat in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc

It Gets Better: Messages of Hope for LGBT Youth

Nawaat: Capturing the Core of the People’s Dream for Democracy in Tunisia

The Fight Against SOPA and PIPA: The Power of Online Civic Organizing

“We Are All Majid!”: International Solidarity for Iran

THE PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION IN THE PHILIPPINES: I SAW NO ONE YIELD TO FEAR

Martin Luther King, Jr: Fighting for Equal Rights in America

Al Masry Al Youm: Transforming the Egyptian Press

Cuidemos el Voto: Promoting Civic Engagement in Mexico

Moudawana: A Peaceful Revolution for Moroccan Women

A Struggle from the Ground Up: The Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa

Age 10 and Divorced: Nujood Ali and the Fight Against Child Brides in Yemen

In Pursuit of Truth: Undercover Journalism and the Democratic Voice of Burma

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines: How One Woman’s Vision Created an International Network

The Ladies in White: Marching for Change in Cuba

The Velvet Revolution: A Peaceful End to Communism in Czechoslovakia

The Year Life Won in Serbia: The Otpor Movement Against Milosevic

Ushahidi: From Crisis Mapping Kenya to Mapping the Globe

Blogger Wael Abbas: Exposing Corruption in Egypt

Bringing People Hope: Harvey Milk and the Gay Rights Movement in America

Charter 08: Calling for Democracy in China

Days of Anger: The Egyptian People’s Revolution for Bread, Freedom, and Human Dignity

Fighting for Farm Workers’ Rights: Cesar Chavez, the Delano Grape Strike and Boycott

The Cedar Revolution in Lebanon

One Million Signatures: The Battle for Gender Equality in Iran

Reclaiming Sicily from the Mafia: Rita Borsellino and the Addiopizzo Movement

Sisters in Islam: Protecting Women’s Rights in Malaysia

Solidarity, Pope John Paul II, and the Orange Alternative: Bringing Down Communism in Poland

The Tree Mother of Africa and Her Green Belt Movement

The 1960s-70s American Feminist Movement: Breaking Down Barriers for Women