Action / Petition

#FreeKordofanWomen: Campaign to Release South Kordofan Women

Girifna, which translates from Arabic as “we are fed up” (with war, corruption, dictatorship, injustice, and discrimination against minorities), is a grassroots movement founded by a group of university students in October of 2009 to create a pro-democracy movement that could unite...

Vote for Children Mending Hearts: Kids Helping Kids!

We are supporting Children Mending Hearts for a couple of years now, first through the Sama Gazette, now on the MagkaSama Project. Children Mending Hearts (CMH) is a Los Angeles non-profit dedicated to empowering local disadvantaged youth by giving them a chance to help other children....

Get on the Bus on April 5 in New York City and April 12 in Washington, DC.

Get on the Bus for Human Rights (GOTB) is an annual day of human rights education and activism organized by Amnesty International USA Group 133 of Somerville, MA and a dedicated team of volunteer community organizers. Now in its eighteenth year, GOTB draws upwards of 1,200 participants...

Sudan Emergency Action Summit 2013 and Darfur10

This week-end and for two days, we followed the Sudan Emergency Action Summit 2013 sponsored by Act for Sudan, at George Mason University, and we listened to speakers, watched the sessions and panels. About the Summit: ‘The Sudan Emergency Action Summit is organized by Act for...

Darfur10: More than 300,000 killed and 4 million displaced, time to call for action again!

Ten years ago, the Government of Sudan began a genocide against civilians in Darfur killing more than 300,000 and displacing 4 million Darfuris. Despite attempts at peace, the killing continues today. Even with a U.N. peacekeeping force on the ground, Darfuris remain vulnerable to attacks...

Darfur 10, Hussain Begira and the Sudan Emergency Action Summit

Mali only waited months, why has Darfur suffered for a decade? This is the question asked by Hussain Begira, Chairman for Darfur Union in the UK and Ireland. In his article published on CNN yesterday, he points out the fact that ‘Military intervention in Mali has been swift —...

Sign the Starved for Attention campaign, help rewrite the story of malnutrition!

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and VII Photo present “Starved for Attention” a multimedia campaign exposing the neglected and largely invisible crisis of childhood malnutrition. “Starved for Attention” aims to rewrite the story of malnutrition through a...

Support iACT and 100-day Fast for Darfur!

In 2011, we supported and joined the Sudan Now campaign, activists and Sudanese around the world in a 24-hour-long Hunger Strike For Darfur and demand that urgent action be taken. This year, iACT announced a 100-day Fast for Darfur, as 2013 marks the 10th anniversary of the escalation of...

Water.org: Matt Damon goes on strike

Water.org is listed in the List of Organizations we support. Clean water and sanitation have always been in our agenda as we celebrate World Toilet Day and World Water Day every year;  on Tuesday, Water.org co-founder Matt Damon announces his strike to raise awareness for the water...

Support One Billion Rising on February 14th, 2013!

In 2 days, on February 14th, 2013, V-Day’s 15th Anniversary, you are invited to support the One Billion Rising campaign and to walk out, dance, rise up, and demand an end to this violence against women. The awful truth: – one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in...