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Sudan: Crackdown on Political Opposition

Human Rights Watch just published an article about six leading members of opposition parties detained by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS). Sudanese authorities should charge or release six members of opposition parties who have been detained in poor conditions...

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...

Denis Mukwege, Enough Project and Eric Reeves

Denis Mukwege, Enough Project and Eric Reeves

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: Denis Mukwege, renown gynaecologist in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Enough Project selected as a winner of the 2013 Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention competition, and Eric Reeves on bombings in...

Beloved, The Bluest Eye and Home by Toni Morrison

On the occasion of the reprint of Home last month, we decided to invite you to a Reading Group to discuss three of Toni Morrison‘s books: Beloved, The Bluest Eye and of course, Home. American novelist Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved, and she was awarded the...

Sea Shepherd: defending the integrity of the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary

Paul Watson is the founder and president of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. He recently wrote an article published on The Guardian website: I don’t think that there is a more isolated, more remote, or more forbidding place on this planet than where we find ourselves at this...

Support iACT and 100-day Fast for Darfur!

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...

Half the Sky Movement: The Game and other cause games

If you have been reading the Sama Gazette and now the MagkaSama Project, you must be familiar with Half the Sky. First there was the book: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. We organized a discussion group when the...

Eastern Congo, Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, For-Profit World, Pistorius

Eastern Congo, Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, For-Profit World, Pistorius

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: Eastern Congo, CIVICUS Secretary General, Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, Talent From the For-Profit World and the Pistorius case. - Six Questions With WFP Nutritionist In Eastern Congo - An Interview with...

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...

Campagne internationale ‘Je signe pour la Tunisie des libertés’ au Théâtre Dejazet à Paris

Campagne internationale ‘Je signe pour la Tunisie des libertés’ au Théâtre Dejazet à Paris

Depuis décembre 2010, nous suivons de près ce qu’il se passe en Tunisie, en essayant de proposer un éclairage sur ce qu’il se passe dans le pays et en apportant notre soutien aux tunisiens qui se mobilisent pour la démocratie. Des informations et des événements que vous...




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