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- Help End Sweatshop Conditions and Modern-Day Slavery in the Agricultural Industry
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The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a grassroots farmworker organization based in South Florida, has launched a national petition campaign calling on Burger King and other food industry leaders to improve the wages and working conditions of farmworkers, and to support an industry-wide effort to end human rights violations and modern-day slavery in Florida's fields.
http://www.fairfoodnation.org/petition
(Added: Wed Apr 09 2008 Hits: 25)
- Speak up against Death Sentence of Sajida Rishawi Atrous in Jordan
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Iraqi national Sajida Rishawi Atrous, who was sentenced to death for involvement in November 2005 suicide bombings, is now in imminent danger of execution. She was reportedly tortured severely to make her confess. An appeal to the Court of Cassation was rejected on 25 January. The death sentence will now be passed to the king for ratification. If he ratifies it, she could be executed at any time. Take urgent action to stop her execution!
(Added: Thu Feb 15 2007 Hits: 167)
- Act Now! Support the Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007 and Limit US Military Assistance to Governments Using Children as Soliders
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Today, an estimated 250,000 children are serving in armed conflict in 20 countries around the world. These "child soldiers" include boys and girls, sometimes as young as eight years old, serving in government armies, government-linked militias, and armed opposition groups. Although many child soldiers are found in non-governmental armed opposition groups, the State Department reports that governments in ten countries are implicated in child soldier use. The US government provides military assistance to nine of them. (Human Rights Watch)
http://hrw.org/campaigns/crp/child_soldiers/takeaction.htm
(Added: Mon May 28 2007 Hits: 169)
- Action Against the Salween Dams in Burma
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Stand up in solidarity with Burma's victims of severe and systematic human rights violations and environmental destruction. Protest against the Thai government's plans with the Burmese military dictatorship to dam the Salween River in Burma. Civil War is raging in the area around the dam sites and hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced at gunpoint. Dams are being used as a military strategy against the ethnic peoples of Burma. Torture, rape, and killings of villagers are continuing as more soldiers are being deployed and more landmines laid. Dams will provide financial support to the military junta. Massive corruption is inevitable given the complete lack of transparency. The dams will permanently degrade Southeast Asia's longest free flowing river's fisheries, floodplains, teak forests and wildlife habitats, and flood villages and fertile agricultural land. What Can You Do? Demonstrate in front of your local Thai Embassy/Consulate on September 21, 2006 Contact your Thai embassy and share your concerns. Sign the petition letter attached. Encourage others to sign the petition and participate in the action. Hold roundtable talks, meetings, documentary showings, and other events to raise awareness about this issue.
http://www.petitiononline.com/9202006/petition.html
(Added: Mon Sep 11 2006 Hits: 225)
- Activists tell of Myanmar 'witch hunt'
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Monks and activists in Myanmar have told Amnesty International of the brutal repression suffered by anti-government protesters in the country. Take Action to end the abuses (Amnesty International, October 2007).
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/mmr-270907-action-eng
(Added: Tue Oct 30 2007 Hits: 74)
- Asian Human Rights Commission - Urgent Appeals
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AHRC has an Urgent Appeals desk that operates around the clock. AHRC issues Urgent Appeals on behalf of persons or groups whose human rights have been violated, and for whom some immediate intervention by people around the world may lead to a remedy or official reaction. This appeals network is connected to other networks, and it has tens of thousands of contacts throughout Asia and other countries.
(Added: Fri Jun 02 2006 Modified: Thu Jan 18 2007 Hits: 239)
- BANGLADESH: Press freedom undermined
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Sumi Khan, a 34-year-old journalist working with local and national magazines and based in the city of Chittagong, has been attacked and received death threats as a result of her investigative journalism for the past two years. She was stabbed in an attack in 2004, and her attackers remain at large. Sumi Khan has written investigative articles alleging the involvement of local politicians and religious groups in attacks on members of minority communities, and about kidnapping and land-grabbing by landlords. Please write, calling on the authorities to undertake a full, impartial and independent investigation into the threats and attack against Sumi Khan and to bring the perpetrators to justice.
http://web.amnesty.org/appeals/index/bgd-010207-wwa-eng
(Added: Fri Feb 09 2007 Hits: 169)
- BEIJING 2008: CHINA'S OLYMPIAN HUMAN RIGHTS CHALLENGES
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There are ways you can promote human rights in China-by writing a letter to the government, using the Internet to help Chinese citizens get around censorship restrictions, or by linking up with other Chinese and international activists to help build the movement (Human Rights Watch, 2007)
(Added: Fri Nov 16 2007 Hits: 92)
- Better World Campaign: Resolve the crisis, don't shut down the UN
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By signing the petition on this website, you can help send a message to world leaders. Tell them you understand the indispensable role that the UN plays as an agent of peace and prosperity around the world and that it is imperative that every nation honor its commitment to keep the UN's work moving forward.
http://www.dontshutdowntheun.org/
(Added: Wed May 31 2006 Hits: 325)
- Beyond your own borders - Vote for the person of the year 2007
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Go beyond your own borders and register a vote to honour those working for humanity. The finalists for OneWorld's Person of 2007 award have been announced. Be inspired by their amazing efforts to protect human rights in Africa, improve lives in Asia, and save the planet. (Civicus, February, 2008)
http://us.oneworld.net/section/us/peopleof2007
(Added: Thu Feb 07 2008 Hits: 55)
- Call for justice in Mexico!
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In Mexico, the criminal justice system is gravely flawed. The country's law and enforcement agencies and judicial system do not effectively protect people from human rights abuses, and perpetrators are rarely brought to justice. These systemic deficiencies lead to arbitrary detentions, torture, fabrication of evidence and unfair trials. For example, Elionai Santiago Sánchez and Ramiro Aragon were arrested, beaten and tortured in Oaxaca in 2006, yet no one has been held to account. Send an email to call on the President of Mexico and the President of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies to seek prompt and substantial reform of the public security and criminal justice system within a human rights framework.
(Added: Tue Feb 20 2007 Hits: 159)
- Call on the Cuban government to outlaw child soldiers
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The Cuban government has signed but not ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. Write to the Cuban ambassador to urge Cuba follows through. (Amnesty InternationaL)
http://www.amnesty.ca/take_action/actions/child_soldiers.php
(Added: Tue Oct 10 2006 Hits: 172)
- Campaign Against Torture
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In response to the systematic infliction of psychological and physical torture by US forces, PHR's Campaign Against Torture seeks to restore the US commitment against torture, to ensure humane treatment of detainees, and to protect US health personnel from complicity in mistreatment and harm (Physicians for Human Rights, 2007).
http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/torture/
(Added: Fri Nov 16 2007 Hits: 57)
- China: Tiananmen 17 years on - the victims deserve justice
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Seventeen years after the killings of unarmed civilians and demonstrators in Beijing and elsewhere in China in June 1989, the Chinese government continues to deny justice by refusing to conduct an investigation, give a detailed account of the events, identify the people who were killed or injured, and grant compensation to the victims and families. The government also continues to refuse to release the people still detained after all these years, despite the summary and unfair nature of their trials and the excessive length of their detention ... Take Action!
http://www.amnesty.ca/take_action/actions/china_tiananmen_2006.php
(Added: Thu Oct 05 2006 Modified: Thu Jan 18 2007 Hits: 194)
- Claiming Equal Citizenship: The Campaign for Arab Women's Right to Nationality
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Women's right to equal citizenship is guaranteed by the majority of Arab constitutions, as well as by international law. Yet across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the Gulf, women are denied their right to nationality - a crucial component of citizenship. The Women's Learning Partnership joins with partners in the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf to call for: * Legal reform enabling women to confer their nationality to their husbands and children without condition * Full implementation of reformed nationality laws and equal access to these laws for all women * Recognition of women as equal citizens in all areas of life (Women's Learning Partnership)
http://www.learningpartnership.org/citizenship/
(Added: Wed May 30 2007 Hits: 145)
- Close Guantánamo now!
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You want Guantánamo closed? Say/sing/act it on camera in a 5 to 10 seconds video clip! You're welcome to comment further on why Guantánamo should be closed, as long as it is not offensive. If you can, shoot your video at a recognisable landmark from your city or your country (the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Zocalo in Mexico City...). Collected material will be compiled and edited into one big Make Some Noise video, to spearhead Amnesty International's "Close Guantánamo" campaign around the world.
(Added: Mon Dec 04 2006 Modified: Thu Jan 18 2007 Hits: 174)
- CONGO: Detention without trial
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Serge Mpassi was transferred to the Brazzaville central civilian prison in mid-May 2005. He was still held there at the end of November 2006. It is thought that his arrest, along with several members of the security forces and more than 15 civilians, is connected to a government investigation into a theft of firearms from Bifouiti Gendarmerie, Brazzaville, and an alleged plot against the government in January 2005. Some of the detainees were given provisional release in late 2005 but Mpassi and 11 others had been held without trial for over 18 months. Please write, calling for former army colonel Serge André Mpassi to be released immediately unless he is charged with a recognizably criminal offence and given a prompt and fair trial. Call for him to be given regular access to legal counsel, his family and necessary medical care.
http://web.amnesty.org/appeals/index/cog-010207-wwa-eng
(Added: Fri Feb 09 2007 Hits: 151)
- Darfur: Get Informed and Get Involved
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Organize a house party or a screening at your school, local library, or church. Follow it with a teach-in on the Darfur crisis, a letter-writing campaign or make it a fundraiser. Download the pdf below for ideas and a guide to planning your own community screening (Lost Boys of Sudan Film).
http://www.lostboysfilm.com/take.html
(Added: Wed Jun 20 2007 Hits: 185)
- Demand Fair Trials in Nigeria
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Gloria was arrested in Nigeria at age 17 and spent 7 years in prison awaiting trial for a murder she says she didn't commit. Her male co-defendant claimed he had a vision of her killing the victim, and with no lawyer to represent her, she was given a death sentence. Gloria was not allowed to appeal the case. Amnesty International believes that she may have been arrested instead of somebody else. Other women are facing the death penalty for having abortions. Please urge the Nigerian State Governors to review all death penalty cases and ensure that international fair trial standards are upheld.
(Added: Mon Dec 04 2006 Modified: Thu Jan 18 2007 Hits: 203)
- Demand investigation into attack on human rights organization
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The office of human rights NGO Corporación Jurídica Yira Castro in Bogotá has been broken into and information about the organisation's members and their work with forcibly displaced people has been stolen. Amnesty International is seriously concerned for the safety of the organisation's staff and for those They are particularly concerned that the break-in may have been politically motivated. The intruders ignored cash and cheque books, but searched paper files containing information on cases of displacement, taking two of them: one about people displaced by a mining project, the other about people displaced by an energy company. (Resource Centre of the Americas).
http://www.americas.org/item_33285
(Added: Mon Jul 09 2007 Hits: 149)
- Demand justice for the victims of Operation Murambatsvina!
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During May-July 2005, an estimated 700,000 people lost their homes, their livelihoods, or both when the Zimbabwe government forcibly evicted them and demolished their homes and businesses as part of Operation Murambatsvina (Drive Out Rubbish). The vast majority of the victims have received no help from the government, and remain homeless. Write a letter to the Chairperson of the Parliament of Zimbabwe's Portfolio Committee on Local Government to protest this.
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/zwe-080906-action-eng
(Added: Tue Sep 12 2006 Hits: 216)
- Ensure Justice for the People of Darfur
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Despite international outrage over the human rights crisis in Darfur, not a single perpetrator of war crimes or crimes against humanity has been brought to justice. Send two crucial messages to Secretary of State Rice and your Members of Congress today: strengthen the U.S. government's relationship with the ICC, and keep the pressure on Sudan's government to cooperate with the ICC investigation.
(Added: Thu Jul 13 2006 Hits: 231)
- Global Day's for Darfur
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Create Worldwide Awareness: Time is running out for the people of Darfur. Four years of genocidal violence has left over 400,000 dead, 2.5 million innocent civilians displaced, and 4 million men, women, and children completely reliant on international aid for survival. Not since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of displacement, starvation, rape, and mass slaughter. (Save Darfur, April 2007)
http://www.savedarfur.org/page/content/globaldays/
(Added: Tue Apr 03 2007 Hits: 181)
- Global Exchange Action Center
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Global Exchange's action centre provides you the means to take action on a number of issues. Make a call. Send a letter. Send a fax. Let your voice be heard.
http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/actions.html
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- Help Protect Enawene Nawe Land in Brazil
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The Enawene Nawe live in an area of savannah and tropical rainforest in Mato Grosso state, western Brazil. Although most of their land was officially reconised in 1996, a crucial area called the Rio Preto, where the Indians gather each year to trap and smoke fish, was left out. The area is being heavily invaded by ranchers, and in a further blow the Mato Grosso state government has announced it will build a vast complex of hydroelectric dams upriver of the Enawene Nawe's land. You can help the Enawene Nawe by joining survival international in their letter writing campaign.
http://www.survival-international.org/actnow/letters/enawenenawe
(Added: Tue Aug 28 2007 Hits: 167)
