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Human rights defenders in India, Kirk Whalum for Water, U.S. suspends invitation to Sudanese official

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed: Arbitrary arrest and judicial harassment of human rights defenders in India; Kirk Whalum and his campaign 'Double Nickel Kirk for Water'; U.S. suspends invitation to Senior Sudanese Official. - India: Arbitrary arrest and...

Chimpanzees May Finally Gain Full Protection under the Endangered Species Act

A victory? Maybe. John R. Platt writes about a long-in-place loophole that exempted captive-bred chimpanzees from the full protections of the Endangered Species Act; itmay finally be closed, Dan Ashe, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), announced on June 11. The federal...

Women Deliver Conference 2013 starts today

Women Deliver 2013 is the largest global event of the decade to focus on the health and empowerment of girls and women. With the 2015 Millennium Development Goal deadline rapidly approaching, the time is now to deliver for girls and women. Women Deliver 2013 will serve as a global...

St. Louis can’t survive on $7.35 – Support St. Louis fast food workers!

Fast food workers from all over St. Louis are on strike. The reason: ‘Most of us make $7.35 or a little more an hour and we just can’t survive‘. Fast workers are paid poverty wages while their employers are making a lot of money. They say: ‘We are struggling to support...

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...

British peer reveals MI6 role in Lumumba killing

The British intelligence services may have just had one of their best-kept secrets blown: their role in the abduction and assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister whose Pan-African nationalism and pro-Moscow leanings alarmed the West. For...

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...

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...

Congo: Obama, Conflict Gold 101, a ‘ringleader’ arrested

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: Congo. - Your Calls for Congo Peace Reached The White House - Conflict Gold 101 - How Obama can end Congo conflict - South Africa police: Congo rebel 'ringleader' arrested