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Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar
Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar targets the Rohingya and other Muslim minorities, about 4 percent of the population, through the 1982 Citizenship Law, 2017 genocide-designated clearance operations, and post-2021 coup abuses by the military and Arakan Army.
Peruvian Indigenism
Peruvian Indigenism, or indigenismo peruano, was an intellectual and artistic movement of the early twentieth century, centered in Cuzco, that vindicated Peru's indigenous population and reimagined the nation around Andean heritage.
Peruvian migration to Chile
Peruvian migration to Chile is the movement of people from Peru to Chile, historically in the north and since the 1990s centered on Santiago, reaching about 260,785 residents by 2023.
Peruvian peasant movement
The Peruvian peasant movement (movimiento campesino peruano) is the organized action of Peru's campesinos for land, labor conditions, and union rights, organized through unions and the 1947 Confederación Campesina del Perú.
Pet cemetery
Pet cemetery: burial ground for companion animals. First known urban example in London's Hyde Park (1881); oldest operating is Hartsdale, New York (1896). Covers history, regulation, and costs.
Peter Brimelow
Peter Brimelow (born 1947), British-American financial journalist, author of Alien Nation (1995), and founder of VDARE.com, a leading anti-immigration and white nationalist-adjacent website suspended in 2024.
Peter Tatchell
Peter Tatchell (born 1952, Melbourne) is a British human rights campaigner active since 1967, known for the Gay Liberation Front, OutRage!, the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, Mugabe citizen's arrests, and the Peter Tatchell Foundation.
Philanthropy and advocacy of Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton's philanthropy, run through The Dollywood Foundation (1988), includes the Imagination Library book-gifting program (1995), the My People Fund wildfire relief, Vanderbilt COVID-19 vaccine research funding, and scholarships.
Philomena Lee
Philomena Lee, Irish woman separated from her son Anthony at Sean Ross Abbey, Roscrea, in the 1950s; subject of Martin Sixsmith's 2009 book and the 2013 Oscar-nominated film Philomena; advocate for adoption-record access and Philomena's Law.
Phoebe Plummer
Phoebe Plummer, British Just Stop Oil activist who threw soup on Van Gogh's Sunflowers in 2022, jailed two years in 2024, later given suspended M25 conspiracy sentence.
Physical abuse
Physical abuse: intentional use of physical force causing injury, a form of child maltreatment alongside sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect; global pooled prevalence 22.6%, distinct from corporal punishment by definition but overlapping in practice.
Picketing
Picketing, also called a picket line, is stationing protesters outside a workplace to publicize a labor dispute and discourage workers or customers from entering. Covers primary versus secondary picketing, US and UK legality, and the 2026 ICJ right-to-strike opinion.
Pieing
Pieing is throwing a pie in a public figure's face as political protest, also called entartage. Started by Yippie Tom Forcade in 1970; Aron Kay and Noël Godin made it famous; peaked with the 1998 Bill Gates pieing and faded around 2011.
Political correctness
Political correctness (PC): avoiding language or behavior that may offend particular groups; term usually used disapprovingly. Traced to 1793 and Maoist China's 1930s party line, pejorative since the 1980s US campus culture wars.
Political movement
Political movement: sustained collective action outside formal government institutions, spanning social movements, interest groups, and hybrid movement parties; explained by resource mobilization, political process, and framing theories.
Pollution in China
Pollution in China, also called Chinese pollution, is severe air and water contamination from coal-dominated industrialization, addressed through control programs begun after the 2013 smog winter.
Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism: academic field studying the legacies of colonialism after the colonial era; founded around Said's Orientalism (1978), developed by Bhabha and Spivak, shaped by subaltern studies, and critiqued by Marxist and decolonial thinkers.
Potter's field
Potter's field: a public burial ground for strangers and the friendless poor, named from Matthew 27:7. Hart Island, NYC's tenth and current potter's field since 1869, holds an estimated 750,000 to 1,000,000 burials.
Poznań protests of 1956
Poznań June 1956 (Poznański Czerwiec), first mass workers' protest against Poland's communist government: 28–29 June 1956 strike at ZISPO, ~100,000 demonstrators, suppressed by tanks, 57 dead.
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, 1921–1990), Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher, founded Ananda Marga in 1955 and propounded PROUT; wrote over 100 books and 5,018 songs.
Prakash Amte (प्रकाश बाबा आमटे)
Prakash Amte (प्रकाश बाबा आमटे), Indian physician and social worker, born 1948, son of Baba Amte; runs Lok Biradari Prakalp at Hemalkasa, Gadchiroli, with wife Mandakini since 1974; Ramon Magsaysay Award (2008) and Padma Shri recipient.
Prejudice
Prejudice is an unfavorable affective reaction to a group and its members, distinct from stereotypes (beliefs) and discrimination (behavior). Meta-analyses quantify intergroup contact and other prejudice-reduction interventions, with field experiments averaging d = 0.51.
Prince Hall
Prince Hall (c. 1735-1807) was a free Black Bostonian abolitionist who founded African Lodge No. 459 in 1775-1784, the origin of Prince Hall Freemasonry, the oldest continuously active African American organization.
Privacy
Privacy: the right or condition of controlling access to oneself and one's personal information, also called the right to be let alone. Defined by Warren and Brandeis (1890), a human right under UDHR Article 12, and regulated today through laws such as the EU GDPR.
Project Chanology
Project Chanology (Operation Chanology) was Anonymous's 2008 protest campaign against the Church of Scientology, triggered by takedown attempts on a leaked Tom Cruise video, combining DDoS attacks, pranks, and global Guy Fawkes-masked street protests.
Propaganda Movement
The Propaganda Movement (1882–1896) was a Filipino reform campaign led by Rizal, del Pilar, and López Jaena in Spain, centered on the newspaper La Solidaridad, demanding assimilation and Cortes representation; its failure fed the 1896 Katipunan revolution.
Prostitution in China
Prostitution in China is illegal but widespread since the 1978 reforms; estimates range from one to ten million sex workers, enforced through administrative fines, detention, and the saohuang dafei campaign system.
Prostitution in Japan
Prostitution in Japan (売春) is prohibited by the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, which punishes solicitation and mediation but not buyers, while a large gray-zone sex industry operates under the Entertainment Businesses Law.
Protest
Protest: coordinated public collective action expressing dissent, opposition, or vindication. Covers tactics (marches, strikes, boycotts, 250 nonviolent methods), theory, datasets (1.2M events, 1980–2020), effectiveness debates, and assembly-rights law.
Protestant work ethic
Protestant work ethic, or Calvinist/Puritan work ethic, coined by Max Weber in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904-05): the thesis that Calvinist calling, predestination, and asceticism fostered diligence, frugality, and capitalism.