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Message on the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula

United Nations Population Fund is teaming up with partners to spearhead the Global Campaign to End Fistula. Below is the message on the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula by the Secretary-General: Pregnant women have a great deal to look forward to: the miracle of birth, meeting…

Not One More: Take a Stand Against Hate, Human Rights Campaign

A homophobic gunman shot and killed a 32-year-old man at point-blank range after he unleashed a series of anti-gay slurs at the victim on a Greenwich Village street. Mark Carson, 32, was killed after a gay-bashing assailant asked whether the man he was with was his boyfriend. Carson…

Free Ethiopian Journalist Eskinder Nega!

Eskinder Nega is a Prisoner of Conscience, recipient of the 2012 PEN/American Center Freedom to Write/Barbara Goldsmith Award. Nega is a prominent Ethiopian journalist and dissident blogger sentenced to 18 years in prison July 13, 2012 under the country’s Anti-Terrorism Proclamation of…

We need to talk about Sudan Campaign and Exhibition

We need to talk about Sudan is a student-led campaign. Students come from a variety of disciplines, backgrounds, and from all over the UK, uniting in their effort to break the silence on the mass atrocities currently perpetrated in Sudan. We believe that everyone has the ability to make a…

#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…

International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic

Today is the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This year’s theme, “Forever Free: Celebrating Emancipation,” pays tribute to the emancipation of slaves in nations across the world. This year is particularly important with…

Journée internationale de la Francophonie / International Francophonie Day 2013

Institutional Francophonie aims to use the French language to promote solidarity, development and cooperation through continuous dialogue between civilizations. On 20 March of each year, French speakers in every continent celebrate International Francophonie Day. 20 March commemorates the…

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…