During oral arguments in December, hundredsofdemonstrators -- many of them African-American college students -- marched and chanted outside the court in support of the affirmative action plans.
Hundredsofdemonstrators gathered outside the prime minister's residence and the house of Sonia Gandhi, the president of India's ruling Congress party, earlier this month after local media reported that the police were slow to react when the five-year-old girl's parents reported their daughter missing.
Authorities in Italy are preparing to deal with an expected 120, 000 anti-globalisation demonstrators from hundredsof protest groups with agendas as diverse as global warming to third world debt.