All Campaigns
Children in the Ranks
By:
Congo
Child soldiers, War crimes
Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007, child soldiers, hrw, US military assistance
<strong>Support the Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007</strong> Limit US Military Assistance to Governments Using Child Soldiers 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...
The Death Penalty
By: Amnesty International
Death penalty
Amnesty, punishment
The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It violates the right to life. It is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent. It has never been shown to deter crime more effectively than other punishments.
Act Now to Help Stop Feminicide and Torture in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua
By:
Mexico
Rape and sexual abuse, Violence against women
Juarez
Since 1993, over 400 women and girls have been violently killed and thousands have disappeared in Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua, Mexico. Under fire for their inability to solve these crimes, the police have tortured people to confess to the murders.
After massive protests in Burma, world refuses to let dust settle
By: Ryan Schlief
Burma, Thailand
Detention, Freedom of opinion & expression, Internally displaced persons
burma, Detention, IDPs, karen, myanmar, political prisoners, violence
Beginning August 19, 2007 there was a series of peaceful protests across Burma as monks, activists and ordinary citizens challenged misrule and repression. On September 26, the Burmese military government responded with violence. Thousands were detained, hundreds disappeared and the country is in the grip of repression...
Educational Integration of Roma Children in Bulgaria
By:
Bulgaria
Education, Minorities, Poverty
Bulgaria, Children, education, illiteracy, Poverty, romani, segregation
In Bulgaria, approximately 30,000 children of Roma attend sub-standard schools in segregated Romani neighborhoods. Inadequate material conditions and the poor quality of education contribute to low attendance rates of Roma pupils. Altogether, they alienate Romani children from schools and perpetuate the cycle of illiteracy, unemployment, and poverty. In the year 2000, Romani activists spearheaded the first initiative for educational desegregation in Europe...........
HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
By: The Hub
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
HIV-AIDS, Rape and sexual abuse
armed conflict, Congo, DRC, Health, HIV, HIV prevention, rape, war
The silent storm of HIV/AIDS is ravaging communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where over 2.6 million people are living with HIV/AIDS. To date only 3% of those needing anti-retroviral treatment are receiving it. Act Now to call on President Joseph Kabila and the Congolese Government to immediately address this emerging crisis......
Torture and displacement in Northern Uganda
By:
Uganda
Internally displaced persons, Rape and sexual abuse, War crimes
Lord’s Resistance Army, muder, rape, refugee, torture, Uganda, Ugandan People’s Defence Forces, war
Two decades of armed conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government in the Northern Uganda, has caused some nearly two million civilians to be displaced from their homes. Ordered into so-called protected camps, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) face heightened insecurity, appalling living conditions and the lack the means of subsistence. Please join us in this campaign to end torture against displaced persons by taking action.
Please oppose vigilante groups such as the Minuteman Project
By:
United States
Immigration , Racial discrimination, Torture/ill treatment
hate-groupm, immigration reform, minuteman, patrol the border, undocumented immigrants, violence
Please write to your Congressional Representatives and Senators, urging them to take a stand against vigilante groups such as the Minuteman Project- Minuteman Project and other vigilante groups have been very skillful at portraying themselves as no more than well-meaning "neighborhood watch groups,” their efforts to “protect” our borders include taking the law into their own hands and using fear, intimidation and violent tactics.
End Extraordinary Rendition and Torture in the World Community
By:
United States
Detention, Independence of the judiciary, Torture/ill treatment
Human rights groups and several public inquiries in Europe have found the U.S. government, with the complicity of numerous governments worldwide, to be engaged in the illegal practice of extraordinary rendition, secret detention, and torture..........
End Slave Labor in Brazil
By:
Brazil
Slavery & forced labor
brazil, end slavery, forced labor, lula, petition, slavery
Every year, over 25,000 workers are enslaved in rural Brazil. Trapped by debt bondage on isolated ranches in the Amazon region, they are forced to do backbreaking work and live in dismal conditions. With no way out, they toil to buy back their freedom.
