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2014 American immigration crisis
The 2014 American immigration crisis was a spring and summer 2014 surge of unaccompanied children and families from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras that overwhelmed U.S. border capacity.
2014 Tanzanian naturalisation of Burundian refugees
The 2014 Tanzanian naturalisation of Burundian refugees granted Tanzanian citizenship to 162,156 former refugees who had fled Burundi in 1972, the largest naturalisation group UNHCR had seen.
2015 Baltimore protests
The 2015 Baltimore protests, also called the Baltimore uprising, followed Freddie Gray's death after his April 12, 2015 arrest; rioting on April 27 brought a curfew, National Guard, charges, a $6.4 million settlement, and a federal consent decree.
2015 Burundian refugee crisis
The 2015 Burundian refugee crisis was the mass flight of Burundians to Tanzania, Rwanda, the DRC, and Uganda after President Pierre Nkurunziza sought a disputed third term in April 2015.
2015 Rohingya refugee crisis
The 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis, or Andaman Sea crisis, saw thousands of stateless Rohingya from Myanmar and Bangladeshi migrants abandoned at sea by smugglers after Thai trafficking-camp raids and mass graves were found, prompting a 17-country Bangkok meeting.
2017 Women's March
The 2017 Women's March, a worldwide protest on January 21, 2017, the day after Trump's first inauguration, began with Teresa Shook's Facebook post, drew 500,000 in Washington and millions worldwide, and was called the largest single-day US protest.
2020 Indonesian omnibus law protests
Nationwide Indonesian protests and strikes against Law No. 11 of 2020 on Job Creation (Omnibus Law, UU Cipta Kerja), passed October 5, 2020; unions, students, and indigenous groups mobilized in over 40 cities, met with mass arrests and police abuse.
2020 Ugandan riots
The 2020 Ugandan riots were three days of violent protests in November 2020, sparked by the arrest of opposition candidate Bobi Wine; at least 54 people died.
2021 Ceuta border crisis
The 2021 Ceuta border crisis was a May 2021 migration episode in which thousands of Moroccans entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after Morocco eased border controls.
2021 Colombian protests
The 2021 Colombian protests, known as the Paro Nacional or Estallido Social, were nationwide demonstrations that began April 28, 2021, against President Iván Duque's proposed tax reform and widened to include inequality and police violence.
2021–2022 United Kingdom censuses
The 2021–2022 UK censuses: 21 March 2021 in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and 20 March 2022 in Scotland after a Covid-related delay; digital-first collection, 97% response in England and Wales, CANCEIS-based editing and imputation.
2023 French pension reform unrest
2023 French pension reform unrest: strikes and protests against raising France's retirement age from 62 to 64, led by an eight-union inter-syndicale, passed via Article 49.3, upheld by the Constitutional Council, with 1.1 million demonstrating in January 2023.
2024 look-alike contests
The 2024 look-alike contests were a series of celebrity competitions held worldwide. The events began in New York on October 27, 2024, and featured stars like Timothée Chalamet.
2025 Afghan deportation from Iran
2025 Afghan deportation from Iran: Iran's mass expulsion of roughly 1.9 million Afghans in 2025, about 1.26 million deported, driven by expired headcount slips, a 2-million expulsion plan, and post-June 2025 Iran-Israel war crackdown.
2025 BBC editorial bias allegations
2025 BBC editorial bias allegations center on Michael Prescott's leaked memo, the Panorama Trump speech edit, resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, and Gaza coverage disputes.
2025 Prayag Maha Kumbh Mela
The 2025 Prayag Maha Kumbh Mela (महाकुंभ 2025) was the Hindu festival at Prayagraj's Triveni Sangam, 13 January to 26 February 2025, with a claimed 663 million visitors, a ₹64 billion budget, and a 29 January crowd crush that killed at least 30.
2025–2026 Birmingham bin strike
The 2025–2026 Birmingham bin strike: Unite refuse workers' dispute with Birmingham City Council over the scrapped WRCO role and pay, all-out from 11 March 2025, involving a major incident, injunctions, and a £16,000-compensation settlement still pending in 2026.
2026 Australian census
The 2026 Australian census, the nineteenth national Census of Population and Housing, was held by the ABS on Tuesday 11 August 2026. Its 66 compulsory-participation questions add gender and sexual orientation topics for people 16 and over, with data released in three phases from June 2027.
2026 in LGBTQ rights
2026 in LGBTQ rights: Botswana repealed its Penal Code ban on same-sex intimacy, Spain topped ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Map, the CJEU ruled against Hungary's content law, and the US Supreme Court ruled against Colorado's conversion therapy ban while upholding transgender sports bans.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
21 Lessons for the 21st Century is Yuval Noah Harari's 2018 essay collection on present-day challenges such as AI, fake news, nationalism, and data ownership, his third book after Sapiens and Homo Deus.
4-H
4-H is the U.S. youth development program of the 109 land-grant universities and Cooperative Extension System, serving about six million youth. Founded from 1902 corn clubs, named for Head, Heart, Hands, and Health, funded by USDA NIFA.
404 Media
404 Media (404media.co) is an independent, journalist-owned technology publication founded August 2023 by ex-Motherboard journalists Jason Koebler, Samantha Cole, Joseph Cox, and Emanuel Maiberg; reader-funded via subscriptions and ads, profitable within six months, named after the HTTP 404 error code.
501(c) organization
A 501(c) organization is a U.S. entity exempt from federal income tax under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c), covering charities (c)(3), social welfare groups (c)(4), labor unions (c)(5), business leagues (c)(6), and political organizations (Section 527), each with distinct donor-deductibility and political-activity rules.
501(c)(3) organization
A 501(c)(3) organization is a US charity exempt from federal income tax under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), barred from political campaigning, classified as public charity or private foundation, with donor-deductible contributions.
69 (sex position)
69, or sixty-nine (French soixante-neuf), is a sex position in which two partners simultaneously give and receive oral sex, arranged like the numerals 6 and 9. First printed in a 1790 French work; described in the Kama Sutra as the congress of a crow.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft is a foundational feminist treatise arguing for rational education and rights for women, prompted by Talleyrand's 1791 report advocating only domestic education for girls.
A Wife Among Wives
A Wife Among Wives (1981) is a 72-minute ethnographic documentary by David and Judith MacDougall, the third film of the Turkana Conversations trilogy, exploring Turkana women's views on marriage and polygyny in northwestern Kenya.
Aarakshan (आरक्षण)
Aarakshan is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language political drama directed by Prakash Jha, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan, and Deepika Padukone, about India's caste-based reservation quotas.
AARP
AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan U.S. membership organization for people 50-plus, founded by Ethel Percy Andrus in 1958, with about 38 million members, Social Security and Medicare advocacy, and major UnitedHealthcare royalty income.
Abandonment (emotional)
Emotional abandonment is a caregiver's withholding of affection, care, or support, distinct from physical absence. Linked to insecure attachment, abandonment schemas, rejection sensitivity, and adverse child development outcomes.