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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>The below is from a friend, curently working with the ILO, previously with the UN, a paper related to world protests, with suggestions to circulate. <br> <BR><div><hr id="stopSpelling"><br><style><!--
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--></style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal">Dear friends</p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal">In case this escaped your attention, we reviewed 843 protests occurring between January 2006 and July 2013 in 87 countries covering over 90% of world population. The paper focuses on: (i) major grievances driving world protests (ii) who is demonstrating, what protest methods they use, and who are they opposed to (iii) achievements and repression of social movements in the short term, and (iv) the main policy demands of world demonstrators. The paper calls for policy-makers to listen, whether messages are articulate or communicate only through frustration and violence.</p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal">The paper, published last September by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung New York Office, is available here: </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><a href="http://policydialogue.org/files/publications/World_Protests_2006-2013-Final.pdf" target="_blank">http://policydialogue.org/files/publications/World_Protests_2006-2013-Final.pdf</a></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal">The executive summary: </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><a href="http://policydialogue.org/files/publications/World_Protests_2006-2013_Executive_Summary.pdf" target="_blank">http://policydialogue.org/files/publications/World_Protests_2006-2013_Executive_Summary.pdf</a></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal">We encourage distribution through websites and blogs; the executive summary and paper may be distributed without alteration with an attribution statement about the authors and their institutions and a clickable link to the original.</p><p class="ecxMsoNormal">Best regards,</p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="ES">Isabel Ortiz, Sara Burke, Mohamed Berrada and Hernan Cortes </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span lang="ES"> </span></p></div></div> </div></body>
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