Greenpeace

Global

Environnement

Greenpeace exists because this fragile Earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.

Corporate Accountability International

Global

Alimentation et santé et développement, Eau, Environnement

Corporate Accountability International, formerly Infact, is a membership organization that protects people by waging and winning campaigns challenging irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world. For over 25 years, we've forced corporations -- like Nestlé, General Electric and Philip Morris/Altria -- to stop abusive actions.

Midwest Coalition for Human Rights

Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Immigration, Syndicats, Torture/mauvais traitements

MCHR has three project areas: Immigrant Detention, Torture, and Workers' Rights.

Pangea Day

Global

Movies can't change the world, but the people who watch them can. On May 10th – Pangea Day – millions of people will gather together at the same time to watch stories made by the world for the world. Created by award-winner filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, Pangea Day is the first global campfire, promising to fuel a new wave of cross-cultural understanding and collective social action. A 4-hour live program of films, speakers, and music will be broadcast from cities around the world beginning at 18:00 GMT, and will reach people globally through the Internet, television, digital cinemas, and mobile phones.

PEN World Voices Festival for International Literature

Global

Education, Liberté d’opinion et d’expression

PEN American Center, founded in 1921 is one of the world's oldest human rights organizations and the oldest international literary organization. We work to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship. In 2004 we established the World Voices Festival, which takes place annually in New York City, as a place to explore and reinforce our core mission through literary conversations, panels, readings, and performances.

Students for a Free Tibet (SFT)

Tibet

Liberté de religion et de croyance, Peuples autochtones, Torture/mauvais traitements

Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) works in solidarity with the Tibetan people in their struggle for freedom and independence. We are a chapter-based network of young people and activists around the world. Through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action, we campaign for Tibetans’ fundamental right to political freedom. Our role is to empower and train youth as leaders in the worldwide movement for social justice.

WE International

Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Trafic des êtres humains

To raise awareness of injustice and poverty in the less developed world