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- Sign the pledge on Internet freedom!
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in November 2006, governments and companies from all over the world will attend a UN conference to discuss the future of the Internet. You can help us send a clear message to them that people everywhere believe the Internet should be a force for political freedom, not repression. People have the right to seek and receive information and to express their peaceful beliefs online without fear or interference. Governments should stop the unwarranted restriction of freedom of expression on the Internet, as should companies who help them do so. We will present the total number at the conference. The more people who sign the online petition, the louder our voice. Please read and sign the pledge.
http://irrepressible.info/pledge
(Added: Wed Jun 07 2006 Hits: 150)
- Speak out with the electronic white band
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The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is the world‚s largest civil society movement calling for an end to poverty and inequality. GCAP is a worldwide alliance of non-government organizations, trade unions, community groups, faith groups, youth, women and other campaigners working together across more than 100 national platforms through the unifying symbol of the white band. The electronic white band (E-White Band) is an online individual white band where you can write a message. Your message will then be displayed on a global white band chain visible on the whiteband.org site.
http://www.whiteband.org/Action/join-us
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- Stop Sex Discrimination in Guatemalan Maquilas
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U.S. and South Korean clothing manufacturers and food processing companies contract with maquilas in Guatemala that discriminate against women on the basis of their reproductive status. Press the government of South Korea to publicly denounce sex discrimination in maquilas owned and managed by South Koreans. Urge the U.S. Secretary of State to speak out about abuses against women by U.S. companies abroad. If you are a U.S. citizen, write your representative and senators in Congress.
http://hrw.org/campaigns/guatemala/
(Added: Tue Oct 03 2006 Modified: Thu Jan 18 2007 Hits: 223)
- Stop starving the Palestinians!
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Because of the withdrawal of EU and US funding to the Palestinian authority, poverty and malnutrition have increased, and Palestinians have died as a result of a blockade on medical supplies. Sign the online petition to call for the reinstatement of funding for the good of the Palestinian people.
http://www.palestinecampaign.org/petition.asp
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- Stop the Export of U.S.-Funded Abstinence-Only HIV/AIDS Programs
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'Abstinence-only' programs teach that abstaining from sex until marriage is the only effective way to prevent contracting HIV through sex. They deny young people critical information about condoms and other safer sex strategies, and promote marriage as a safeguard against HIV infection. These programs do not work, they violate kids' right to complete information about HIV/AIDS and leave young people at risk of contracting HIV in marriage, particularly women and girls. But the U.S. government is exporting them all over the world as part of President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Support Ugandan AIDS activists by adding your name to a sign-on letter to their Ministry of Health. Write to President Bush and Ambassador Randall Tobias
http://hrw.org/campaigns/aids/2005/uganda/
(Added: Tue Oct 03 2006 Hits: 316)
- Stop Violence Against Women
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Help support Amnesty International's campaign to stop violence against women (Amnesty International).
http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/index-eng
(Added: Tue Sep 11 2007 Hits: 107)
- Sun, Sand, Sea and Sweatshops: Making the world's biggest industry fair
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Tourism Concern is calling on holidaymakers to demand fair and legal labour conditions in the tourism industry and to inform tour operators that they will not book their holidays with those who exploit tourism workers. You can make your voice heard by clicking here to sign a postcard, which will be sent to four major tour operators in the UK.
http://www.tourismconcern.org.uk/campaigns/sss-form-postcard.html
(Added: Fri Apr 22 2005 Modified: Tue Apr 26 2005 Hits: 182)
- Support Prisoner of Conscience Sister Shelia Salmon, fighting to close the School of the Americas
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Prisoner of Conscience, Sister Shelia Salmon reported to the Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institute on April 19, 2007. Sr. Sheila Salmon is a member of the Sisters of the Humility of Mary, headquartered at Villa Maria, PA. Sister Sheila, a registered nurse, has ministered in the greater Cleveland, OH area, most recently with Hospice of the Western Reserve. She was also a missionary in Chile and worked with AIDS orphans in Kenya. She currently serves as an outreach worker with Mexican migrants, abused and neglected children and hospice patients in Sebastian, FL. This year was Salmon's ninth protest, and it was the first time she trespassed. Sr. Shelia stated: "I said to myself, It's time for me to take a different stance for justice". (Resource Centre of the Americas).
http://www.americas.org/item_31580
(Added: Mon Jul 09 2007 Hits: 68)
- Support the Tiananmen Mothers
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The year 2006 is the 17th anniversary of the June Forth Massacre at Tiananmen Square, Beijing. After years of torment, families of the victims cannot find peace to mourn their loved ones in peace. Continuous surveillance, harassment, stalking and detention by the authorities continue. The Tiananmen Mothers Campaign* organized an online petition campaign "The 64 roses -We call for Justice!" calling for the right to mourn the deceased June Fourth victims peacefully, freely and publicly. To sign the petition, please go to this website. All the names collected would be submitted to the Chinese government.
(Added: Fri Jun 02 2006 Hits: 124)
- Take action - defend refugees and asylum seekers
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Write to the Australian Government and the Opposition, calling on them to abolish Australia's policy of mandatory detention and, in particular, indefinite detention. Urge them to: * establish an independent review process to assess the necessity of detention for all asylum seekers held in immigration detention in Australia and on Nauru * ensure asylum seekers are only detained in exceptional circumstances, consistent with international human rights standards * grant bridging visas to those whose detention does not meet such standards, including immediately releasing all 'stateless' people * introduce complementary protection, to allow stateless people and others who need Australia's protection to join the community and get on with their lives (Amnesty International- Australia).
(Added: Wed Jun 20 2007 Hits: 104)
- Take Action Gaza!
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Send a letter of protest condemning the decision of the Israeli government to begin withholding electricity, water and goods from the Gaza Strip. These actions are inhumane and illegal under international law.
http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/take%20action%20gaza.doc
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- Take action to change U.S. policy towards Cuba
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With regard to the recent speculations and news reports about the health status of Fidel Castro, it is critical that U.S. policymakers shift away from the long-standing political war against Cuba.
http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/actnow/#cuba
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- Take Action to Free Bu Dongwei - Prisoner of Conscience in China
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Bu Dongwei, also known as David Bu, was assigned to two-and-a-half years' "Re-education through Labour" (RTL) on 19 June in connection with his activities as a member of the Falun Gong spiritual movement. He is detained at an undisclosed location, and Amnesty International considers him to be a prisoner of conscience. He is at serious risk of torture or ill-treatment.
http://www.amnesty.ca/take_action/actions/china_bu_dongwei.php
(Added: Thu Oct 05 2006 Modified: Thu Jan 18 2007 Hits: 74)
- Take Action to Free Indonesian Trade Union Leader
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Sarta Sarim, an Indonesian union leader, was arrested on the 1st of May after participating in a peaceful demonstration. Sign on to a letter asking Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to intervene and see that Sarta receives justice.
http://www.solidaritycenter.org/content.asp?contentid=674
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- Take action to stop secret CIA detention!
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The US government has constructed a wide-ranging detention system for terrorism suspects and others it considers to be implicated in the "war on terror". Many suspects are subjected to "rendition" followed by detention in acknowledged or secret US detention facilities outside the USA, or foreign-controlled facilities under US direction. All of these practices violate international law (Amnesty International).
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/usa-070607-action-eng
(Added: Tue Oct 30 2007 Hits: 43)
- Take Action! Denial of Right of Return
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The Israeli Government has rescinded its policy of granting re-entry visas to Arab Christian ministers, priests, nuns and other religious workers who wish to travel in and out of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. Arab Christian church workers will henceforth have to apply for re-entry visas at Israeli consulates abroad each time they travel outside the areas of Israeli control. Send a letter to Ban Ki Moon in support of the Palestinian right of return (Justice for Palestinian Matters).
http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/right%20of%20return.doc
(Added: Fri Sep 28 2007 Hits: 44)
- Take Action! Stand with the Burmese Protesters!
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After decades of military dictatorship, the people of Burma are rising - and they need our help. Marches begun by monks and nuns are snowballing: today 100,000 have taken to the streets of Rangoon (Avaaz).
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/
(Added: Tue Sep 25 2007 Hits: 85)
- Take Action: New escalation of police repression against the popular movement in Oaxaca!
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This Monday July 16th, at approximately 11:00 am, members of the Oaxaca municipal and state police provoked members of the Oaxaca Peoples' Popular Assembly (APPO) and teachers from Section 22 of the National Union of Education Workers with tear gas and stones as they held a march in Oaxaca City. Reports state that between 50 and 100 people have been injured, mostly members of the APPO and reporters covering the confrontation. Photographs on the website of the Mexican national newspaper El Universal show police firing teargas, throwing rocks and arresting bloodied protesters. Take Action Now! Send communications to Presidente FELIPE DE JESÚS CALDERÓN HINOJOSA. (Global Exchange, July 2007).
(Added: Thu Jul 19 2007 Hits: 76)
- Take Action; Brazil's caveirão
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The caveirão, literally meaning "big skull", is a military-style assault vehicle, with heavy armoury, a turret, and firing positions running along its body. Used to police Rio de Janeiro's favelas (slums), it is known to storm into communities, firing at random, it's loudspeakers blaring out: "Children, get out of the street. There's going to be a shootout." Between May and September 2005, 11 people were killed in caveirão-led operations. The caveirão is part of a pattern of confrontational and intimidating policing. It targets socially excluded communities, increasing violence and criminalizing poverty in Rio. Take action by going to this website to watch the video and write to the Governor of Rio de Janeiro, demanding an end to excessive use of force and urging him to implement human rights-based policing to ensure the effective protection of the residents of Rio's favelas. (Amnesty International)
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/bra-130406-action-eng
(Added: Wed Apr 19 2006 Hits: 176)
- Tell Putin and Bush to Protect Russian NGOs
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Express your concerns over a bill entitled 'Amendments to Several Laws of the Russian Federation' which tighten government control over Russian civil society groups and force foreign organizations in Russia to close. Write to Russian President Vladimir Putin (chair of the G-8) and US President George Bush.
http://hrw.org/campaigns/russia/ngos/index.htm
(Added: Tue Oct 03 2006 Modified: Thu Jan 18 2007 Hits: 116)
- The Color Orange
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By using something with the color orange during the Olympics - both inside and outside of China - you are sending a signal to the world that something is wrong in China. Join the initiative TheColorOrange.net with the aim of showing China - during the Olympics in August 2008 - that we are many people who are keeping an eye on China's human rights violations.
http://www.thecolororange.net/uk/page63
(Added: Wed Jan 09 2008 Hits: 83)
- The Tibetan Refugee Crisis: Keeping a Weather Eye
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Tibetan refugees rely on international conventions that safeguard their pursuit of religious freedom and human rights. Most leave Tibet to reach asylum in either Nepal or eventually India, where they can be near their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. Having long provided a doorway to freedom for the Tibetans, Nepal's recent actions show such neighborliness is not assured. Read more about this and send a letter to Nepalese officials urging their continued humanitarianism (Ethical Traveler).
http://www.ethicaltraveler.com/act_detail.php?id=2
(Added: Thu Oct 16 2003 Hits: 269)
- Thursdays In Black
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Amnesty International New Zealand. Thursdays in Black has its roots in groups such as Mothers of the Disappeared in Argentina, Black Sash in South Africa and the Women in Black movements in Israel-Palestine and the former Yugoslavia. Thursdays in Black, as a human rights campaign, was started by the World Council of Churches during the 1980's as a peaceful protest against rape and violence - the by-products of war and conflict. Wearing black on Thursdays and a campaign badge or T-shirt, demonstrates that you support the promise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to provide equality, freedom from discrimination, violence and fear - a promise made to all human beings. Wearing black on Thursdays says, I support the human right of women to live in a world without violence, rape and fear.
(Added: Fri Dec 17 2004 Hits: 307)
- UNESCO International day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
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Come support UNESCO on the 23rd of August. The petition being handed to parliament asks for a law to make it illegal for slave-made products to be imported into NZ (UNESCO, August 2007).
(Added: Tue Aug 21 2007 Hits: 87)
- Urge African Governments to Ratify and Enforce Women's Rights Protocol
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African women made history in 2005, as a protocol came into force that specifically protects women's human rights and breaks new ground in international law. You can help promote desperately needed women's rights in Africa by writing to the governments that raitified the protocol and calling on them to comply with the protocol by amending their domestic laws and practices. You can also write to African governments who have not yet ratified the protocol, urging them to make a committment to women's rights by doing so.
http://hrw.org/women/africaprotocol/
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