word | | Political pressure groups and leaders |
| groups | Bulgaria | Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bulgaria or CITUB; Podkrepa Labor Confederation other: numerous regional, ethnic, and national interest groups with various agendas |
| groups | Burkina Faso | ... STANISLAS]; National Confederation of Burkinabe Workers or CNTB [Laurent OUEDRAOGO]; National Organization of Free Unions or ONSL [Paul KABORE] other: watchdog/political action groups throughout the country in both organizations and communities |
| groups | Burma | ... People's Party or KNPP; National Council-Union of Burma or NCUB (exile coalition of opposition groups); United Wa State Army or UWSA; Union Solidarity and Development Association or USDA (pro-regime ... |
| groups | Canada | other: agricultural sector; automobile industry; business groups; chemical industry; commercial banks; communications sector; energy industry; environmentalists; public administration groups; steel industry; trade unions |
| groups | Cape Verde | other: environmentalists; political pressure groups |
| groups | Chad | rebel groups |
| groups | China | the China Democracy Party; the Falungong spiritual movement note: no substantial political opposition groups exist, although the government has identified the organizations listed above as subversive groups |
| groups | Colombia | National Liberation Army or ELN; Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC note: two largest insurgent groups active in Colombia |
| groups | Cook Islands | Reform Conference (lobby for poltical system changes) other: various groups lobbying for political change |
| groups | Croatia | other: human rights groups |
| groups | Denmark | Danish Free Press Society (freedom of speech); Danish National Socialist Movement or DNSB [Jonni HANSEN] (neo-Nazi organization) other: human rights groups |
| groups | France | ... or MEDEF, employers' union with 750,000 companies as members (claimed) French Guiana: conservationists; gold mining pressure groups; hunting pressure groups Guadeloupe: Christian Movement for the Liberation of Guadeloupe or KLPG; General Federation ... |
| groups | Germany | other: business associations and employers' organizations; religious, trade unions, immigrant, expellee, and veterans groups |
| groups | Guam | Guam Federation of Teachers' Union; Guam Waterworks Authority Workers other: activists; indigenous groups |
| groups | India | ... in the northeast (separatist group); Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (religious organization); Vishwa Hindu Parishad (religious organization other: numerous religious or militant/chauvinistic organizations; various separatist groups seeking greater communal and/or regional autonomy |
| groups | Iran | groups that generally support the Islamic Republic: Ansar-e Hizballah-Islamic Coalition Party (Motalefeh); Followers of the Line of the Imam and the Leader; Islamic Engineers Society; Tehran Militant Clergy Association (Ruhaniyat ... |
| groups | Italy | manufacturers and merchants associations - Confcommercio; Confindustria; organized farm groups - Confcoltivatori; Confagricoltura; Roman Catholic Church; three major trade union confederations - Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro or CGIL [Guglielmo EPIFANI] which is left wing ... |
| groups | Japan | other: business groups; trade unions |
| groups | Kuwait | other: Islamists; merchants; political groups; secular liberals and pro-governmental deputies; Shia activists; tribal groups |
| groups | Malaysia | Bersih (electoral reform); Sharia High Court other: religious groups; women's groups; youth groups |
| groups | Mongolia | other: human rights groups; women's groups |
| groups | Nepal | other: several small armed Madhesi groups along the southern border with India; a variety of groups advocating regional autonomy for individual ethnic groups |
| groups | New Zealand | Women's Electoral Lobby or WEL other: apartheid groups; civil rights groups; farmers groups; Maori; nuclear weapons groups; women's rights groups |
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