Single issue movement is a movement of specific nature that seeks to achieve a single objective within a limited time frame. It is also known as short term movement.

Single issue movement can be contrasted with long-term movement which is more general or generic movement that seeks to achieve a broad goal in the very long term.

For example environmental movement is a label for a large number of organisations and issue-specific movement.

Bolivia, a poor country in Latin America, had to face pressure from World Bank to sell—its municipal rights in Cochabamba, a city in this country—to a MNC. The MNC immediately increased the price of water by four times. Many people received monthly water bill of Rs 1000 in a country where average income is around Rs 5000 a month. This led to spontaneous popular support.
An alliance of labour, human rights and community leaders organised a successful four day general strike. The goverment agreed to negotiate and the strike was called off. The police resorted to brutal repression when other strike was organised. With the passage of time goverment conceded to all the demands of protesters.
With this contract with MNC was cancelled and water supply was restored to Municipality at old rates. This came to known as Bolivia's water war.

A written statement published by a political party in which they state their aims and policies including objectives and programmes.

(i) In a democracy people express their grievances and opinion through struggles or by expressing their opinion using different means of expression and platforms.
(ii) Struggles keep the ruling party alert for making policies and programmes for the general interests of the people. 

The second movement started in April, 2006 when king Gyanendra dismissed the then Prime Minister and dissolved the popularly elected parliament. This movement was aimed at regaining popular control over the goverment from the king.

All the major political parties in the parliament formed a Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and called for a four-day strike in Kathmandu, the country’s capital. This protest soon turned into an indefinite strike in which the Maoist insurgents and various other organisations joined hands. People defined curfew to take to the streets. The security forces found themselves unable to take on more than a lakh people who gathered almost every day to demand restoration of democracy. The number of protesters reached between 3 to 5 lakhs on 21 April and they served an ultimatum to the king. The leaders of the movement rejected the half-hearted concessions made by the king. They stuck to their demand for restoration of parliament, power to all party government and a new constituent assembly.
On 24 April, 2006, the last day of the ultimatum, the king was forced to concede all the three demands. The SPA chose Girija Prasad Koirala as the new Prime Minister of the interim government. The restored parliament met and passed laws taking away most of the powers of the king. The SPA and the Maoists came to an understanding about how the new constituent assembly was going to be elected. This struggle came to be known as Nepal’s second movement for democracy. The struggle of the Nepali people is a source of inspiration for democrats all over the world.