While RJR itself questioned whether the device functioned adequately as a nicotine delivery device, activists derided it for its potential for use in delivery of other drugs.

Several pro-war activists and writers wrote of, and quoted, the Finnish team's press-release as if it were the actual report.

Over time, as a United Nations Environment Programme report mentioned, Chipko activists started " working a socio-economic revolution by winning control of their forest resources from the hands of a distant bureaucracy which is only concerned with the selling of forestland for making urban-oriented products .".

The report is based on a questionnaire sent to partner organizations of Reporters Without Borders ( 14 freedom of expression groups in five continents ) and its 130 correspondents around the world, as well as to journalists, researchers, jurists and human rights activists.

A published report on the conference calls for community psychologists to be political activists, agents of social change and " participant-conceptualizers.

The report states that some left-wing activists and Muslim extremists are using criticism of Israel as a " pretext " for antisemitism, and that the " most worrying discovery " is that antisemitism appears to be entering the mainstream.

During the 1990s, Human Rights First continued to publicize the obstacles faced by human rights activists and report on unjust legal systems around the world.

At the same time, the said group of attorneys made public a formely classified report of the State's Council of Public Attorneys which asked the State to press charges at the courts for banning the MST by having it declared as an illegal organization, a task for which the report considered further investigations useless, " as it was public knowledge that the movement and its leadership were guilty of engaging in organized criminality ". The report proposed also that, in municipalities where the presence of MST activists could " cause electoral disequilibrium ", said activists ' franchise was to be withdrawn by striking them from the voters ' registry.

A 2010 report produced for the Israeli cabinet by the Reut Institute, and cited by the newspaper Haaretz, exemplifies the common Israeli view that hasbara efforts are needed to respond to what it describes as a diffuse " delegitimization network " of anti-Israel activists.

As Haaretz put it, " The network's activists-' delegitimizers ' the report dubs them-are relatively marginal: young people, anarchists, migrants and radical political activists.

The standpoint of pro -" signature bridge " activists and regional politicians was reinforced by a legislative analyst's report in late January 2005.

The AAA went on to kill 1, 122 people, according to an appendix to the 1983 CONADEP report, including suspected Montoneros and ERP leftist guerrillas and their sympathizers, as well as judges, police chiefs, and social activists.

": A report on the intersection between the environmental movement and anti-immigration activists ' efforts to influence the Sierra Club.

The report records a number of recurring cases of harassment, surveillance, and imprisonment of journalists and human rights activists some of whom have been detained in harsh conditions, physically harassed and dismissed from their jobs.

Free expression violations in Tunisia continue to run rampant, six months after the government attracted controversy for muzzling civil society activists during the World Summit on the Information Society last November, according to a new report by the IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group, which undertook a mission in April 2006.

Because the Party no longer sponsored candidates in Presidential Elections, the name " Party " had been " misleading "; " Party " had hindered the recruiting of activists who participated in the Democratic Party, according the majority report.

A report by Asef Bayat in the Middle East Report suggests that " the Arab governments allow little room for independent dissent " as is shown by the fact that " Since 2000, demands for collective protests against the US and Israel have been ignored by the authorities " and " unofficial street actions have faced intimidation and assault, with activists being harassed or detained ".

In 1978, Amnesty International published a report finding that irregular conduct by the FBI during its COINTELPRO operations had undermined the fairness of trials of a number of political activists during the 1970s.

However, activists remembered the messy crash of the Soviet Union's nuclear-powered Cosmos 954 satellite in Canada in 1978, and the 1986 Challenger accident had raised public awareness of the possibility of explosive spacecraft failures.

However, proposals for exploitation of the country's tropical forests and undeveloped regions of the interior traditionally inhabited by indigenous and Maroon communities have raised the concerns of environmentalists and human rights activists both in Suriname and abroad.

The bridge fell into disrepair and was going to be removed until a group of activists raised the money to restore the bridge in 1983.

Eventually, Hill and other activists raised $ 50, 000 to spare her tree and a buffer around it.

The turn successfully raised the group's membership to 300 activists.

The group is opposed to maintaining the current age of consent, and implies that the reason it has not been raised is because so-called " aggressive homosexual activists " would be prevented from sleeping with young boys.

Legal experts cast serious doubt as to the validity of Mohammed's " confessions " as being false claims, and human rights activists raised serious concerns over the " sham process " of justice and use of torture.

Different movements sometimes use different terms to describe the raised fist salute: amongst communists and socialists, it is sometimes called the red salute, whereas amongst black rights activists, especially in the United States of America it has been called the Black Power salute.

* A raised fist, a salute used by political and social activists

In October 2011, gay rights activists called for Jeff Kennett to resign as chairman of the charity following his comments that children have better mental health if raised in heterosexual marriages.

In addition, the $ 50, 000 that Hill and other activists raised during the cause was given to the logging company, as stipulated by the resolution.

The young Black Panther activists raised public consciousness to the " Oriental question " which subsequently played a role in Israeli political debate in the Seventies and Eighties, contributing to Likud success in that period.

The following year, again with support from Coors, Weyrich founded the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress ( CSFC ), an organization that trained and mobilized conservative activists, recruited conservative candidates, and raised funds for conservative causes.

Environmental groups and anti-genetic engineering activists championed Schmeiser's cause, he spoke on the case around the world, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were raised from donations for his defense fund.

Shortly after activists of the Dal Khalsa again raised the flag of Khalistan at various places in the Punjab state during India's Independence day on August 15, 1980.

Observers point out that many High Courts and certain Supreme Court judges are reluctant to entertain PILs, even those filed by well known Non-Governmental Organizations and activists, citing concerns of balance of powers and the importance of democratic law making.

The storyline concerns the contest between Ransom and Olive for Verena's allegiance and affection, though the novel also includes a wide panorama of political activists, newspaper people, and quirky eccentrics.

The accident crystallized anti-nuclear safety concerns among activists and the general public, resulted in new regulations for the nuclear industry, and has been cited as a contributor to the decline of new reactor construction that was already underway in the 1970s.

While a straightforward telling to the public about the disease was controversial, Koop was also criticized by some health activists who claimed that his office had not gone far enough in attempting to develop a cure or vaccine, reducing the role of his office to educating the public on health concerns.

On 21 May 1989, as concerns in Hong Kong about the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests were reaching fever pitch, the paper took a principled position opposing the enforcement of martial law by the PLA amid pro-democracy protests by students and political activists.

During the early 1980s, isolationists on the far right made overtures to anti-war activists on the left in the United States to join forces against government policies in areas where they shared concerns.

The Frankfurt Parliament showed that German delegates refused to accept the rights of non-German people and while Prussian government declared itself ready to discuss Polish concerns, it soon made the Prussian military crush down the movement of Polish activists and peasants demanding freedom.

Human rights activists called for a cancellation of 2012 race due to reports of alleged human rights abuses committed by the Bahraini authorities, team personnel also voiced concerns about safety.

There were also concerns that the law would be used in order to arrest individual activists from international trade unions.

During the first few years of Imparja, CAAMA faced growing concerns from media activists that commercial programming would consume local content ( Michaels 1984 ).

This category concerns political office-holders, candidates and activists in New Zealand.

Other activists also resigned over concerns that Camp Trans was privileging the voices of trans men over trans women in their organization.

During the last months of her life, Bergalis ' case was cited by some politicians and journalists as an example of a ' blameless ' HIV infection that had been allowed to happen due to the CDC and the healthcare industry being overly responsive to the concerns of AIDS activists and the gay community.

Amnesty International routinely raises human rights concerns relating to Khuzestani Arabs through linking with separatists websites who provide information, in particular the arrest and detention of political activists, torture and executions.

Many male activists support these anti-violence campaigns on two strong fronts: first, that violence against women concerns all people, regardless of gender ; and secondly, that more attention should be paid to the social environments that produce perpetrators.

* AIDS activists groups, Act Up-Paris lobby group and the African Essential Drug Network ( RAME ), call on drugs manufacturing company Roche Holding AG to allow generic companies to make the antiviral drug Tamiflu for Africans, as concerns mount over how countries would deal with a potential flu pandemic stemming from bird flu virus H5N1.

Most have centered around the concerns of animals rights activists and some politicians, who have expressed concerns about the treatment of animals at the park for many years.

Company spokesperson Mark Kruger said the company filed the lawsuit — which also names the activists individually — largely because of safety concerns as the activists were " unfamiliar with an industrial operation, and unfamiliar with some of the safety hazards that can be present ... We just want to ensure that, in the future, nobody is putting themselves at unnecessary risk .”