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Anti-corruption campaign under Muhammadu Buhari

The anti-corruption campaign under Muhammadu Buhari was Nigeria's federal effort against corruption from 2015 to 2023, centered on the Treasury Single Account and a whistleblower policy.

Anti-cosmopolitan campaign

The anti-cosmopolitan campaign (Борьба с космополитизмом) was a Soviet ideological and police campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans", mainly Jewish intellectuals, opened by Pravda in January 1949 and ended by Stalin's death.

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a plurilateral IP enforcement treaty negotiated 2006–2010 and signed in 2011 by the EU, 22 member states, and others; the European Parliament rejected it on 4 July 2012, so it never entered into force.

Anti-Croat sentiment

Anti-Croat sentiment, also called Anti-Croatism, is prejudice against Croats. It is characterized by the collective labeling of Croats as "Ustasha" in Serbian media and politics.

Anti-cytokine therapy

Anti-cytokine therapy is a treatment approach using drugs, mainly monoclonal antibodies, soluble receptor fusions, and receptor antagonists, to inhibit cytokines driving inflammatory and autoimmune disease.

Anti-de Sitter space

Anti-de Sitter space, or AdS space, is a maximally symmetric spacetime of constant negative curvature with a timelike boundary, known for black-hole thermodynamics and the AdS/CFT correspondence.

Anti-Defamation League

Anti-Defamation League (ADL), American Jewish civil rights organization founded in 1913 by Sigmund Livingston in Chicago; publishes the Audit of Antisemitic Incidents since 1979; led by CEO Jonathan Greenblatt since 2015; FBI ended its partnership in 2025.

Anti-defection law (India)

The anti-defection law of India, contained in the Constitution's Tenth Schedule and enacted in 1985, disqualifies members of Parliament or state legislatures who defect from their party.

Anti-drone mesh

An anti-drone mesh, nicknamed a cope cage on vehicles, is a passive netting barrier that catches drones or forces premature detonation, widely used in Ukraine.

Anti-dsDNA antibodies

Anti-dsDNA antibodies are autoantibodies against double-stranded DNA, a disease-specific biomarker of systemic lupus erythematosus discovered in 1957, detected by Farr RIA, CLIFT, and ELISA, and central to lupus nephritis.

Anti-Dumping Agreement

The Anti-Dumping Agreement (ADA) is the WTO treaty implementing GATT Article VI, setting the conditions for anti-dumping duties on imports sold below their home-market price.

Anti-dumping duty

An anti-dumping duty is a tariff on imports sold below normal value that injure domestic industry; the WTO's most used trade remedy, with 2,144 measures in force in 2025.

Anti-EBV TCR-T trial

Anti-EBV TCR-T trial (NCT07162012): Shanghai General Hospital early phase 1 study of autologous EBV-specific TCR-engineered T cells for relapsed/refractory EBV-positive lymphoma in HLA-A11:01 patients, 24 participants, dose-escalation design.

Anti-EGFR therapy

Anti-EGFR therapy is a class of cancer drugs that blocks EGFR signaling, using monoclonal antibodies for colorectal cancer and tyrosine kinase inhibitors for EGFR-mutant lung cancer.

Anti-establishment

Anti-establishment refers to opposition to a society's conventional social, political, and economic principles and its incumbent elites; term coined by New Statesman in 1958. Covers anti-establishment parties, populism, protest voting, and reform parties distinct from populism.

Anti-fascism

Anti-fascism (antifascism, antifa) is opposition to fascist movements and regimes, originating in 1920s Italy against Mussolini's squads, spanning Popular Front politics, wartime resistance, Cold War memory politics, and today's decentralized militant Antifa networks.

Anti-Fascist Action

Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) was a British militant anti-fascist organisation, mid-1980s to about 2001, led largely by Red Action with anarchists and football fans, practicing no-platform tactics against the BNP, Blood and Honour, and Combat 18.

Anti-Fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia

The Anti-Fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia (ASNOM) was the supreme legislative and executive body of the Macedonian state from 1944 to 1945.

Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia

AVNOJ (Antifašističko vijeće narodnog oslobođenja Jugoslavije), 1942–1945, the Partisan movement's legislative body; sessions at Bihać, Jajce (federal Yugoslavia, NKOJ, 29 Nov 1943), and Belgrade; became the Provisional People's Assembly.

Anti-Fascist Internationalist Front

Anti-Fascist Internationalist Front (AIF), founded October 15, 2024 near Falam, Chin State, Myanmar: a foreign-volunteer internationalist armed formation fighting the SAC junta alongside local resistance forces and training them in sniper, drone, and medical skills.

Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League

The Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL, Burmese: ဖဆပလ) was the Burmese coalition that led Burma from independence in 1948 until Ne Win's 1962 military coup.

Anti-Filipino sentiment

Anti-Filipino sentiment is prejudice and discrimination against Filipinos, historically in the United States through colonial-era labor recruitment, the 1929-1930 West Coast riots including Watsonville, immigration exclusion politics, and persistent discrimination reported by Filipino Americans today.

Anti-fish-farming activism and campaigns

Anti-fish-farming activism is organized opposition to industrial fish farming, especially open-net pen salmon aquaculture, led by scientists, environmental NGOs, fishers, Indigenous peoples, and coastal residents.

Anti-Flag

Anti-Flag: Pittsburgh political punk rock band (1988-2023) founded by Justin Sane and Pat Thetic; albums Die for the Government and Lies They Tell Our Children; disbanded July 2023 after sexual assault allegations against Sane.

Anti-folk

Anti-folk (antifolk) is a raw, satirical acoustic songwriting movement founded by Lach in 1980s New York, home at Sidewalk Cafe from 1993, associated with Beck, the Moldy Peaches, Regina Spektor, and Jeffrey Lewis.

Anti-fouling paint

Anti-fouling paint coats ship hulls to prevent biofouling by algae, barnacles, and molluscs. Uses copper and booster biocides or silicone foul-release surfaces; TBT banned by IMO AFS Convention (in force 2008), cybutryne controlled from 2023.

Anti-freezing organohydrogels

Anti-freezing organohydrogels are soft crosslinked polymer networks containing both water and a nonvolatile organic solvent, typically glycerol or ethylene glycol, used in wearable sensors and flexible electronics that work at subzero temperatures.

Anti-gay purges in Chechnya

Anti-gay purges in Chechnya: waves of detention, torture, and honor-killing incitement against men presumed gay, begun February 2017 under Ramzan Kadyrov, denied by officials, and continuing through 2024-2026 with wartime blackmail.

Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe

Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe, also called anti-genderism or opposition to 'gender ideology', are mobilizations against LGBT rights, reproductive rights, and gender education, originating in 1990s Vatican reactions to UN conferences and now tied to right-wing populist parties and transnational funding networks.

Anti-gender movement

Anti-gender movement: transnational campaigns against gender equality, feminism, and LGBTQ rights framed as opposing 'gender ideology'; originated in Vatican circles after the 1994 Cairo and 1995 Beijing UN conferences, now funded by conservative religious, Russian, and American donors.